Review: Time and Time again
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 22, 2012
I picked this book to read as part of my ongoing mission to step outside my usual reading comfort-zone so time-travel/sci-fi is really not something I am familiar with. This means that I am not sure whether it is good examples of this sort of book, I only know that I thoroughly enjoyed it!Admittedly, it did take a while to get used to both the author's writing style as well as to get my head round the whole time travel, parallel universe, paradox thing, but I am so glad I persisted!The concept of the book is relatively simple - go back in time - change something - change the future (or present to our trusty time traveler). But where this book differs from that concept is that there is no single point of action to change. Instead, that change has to be made many times over in separate parallel universes and to effectively change the future he has to be successful in each and every one.I actually found this concept and the way the book is set out quite fascinating. Scenes are played out to their conclusion and then the same storyline is repeated, branching out from a single alternative choice made by a character into a completely different scenario. This bamboozled me at the start, but it works - it really does! It gets you thinking about how many decisions you make of a day. How many branches could come out of your own life?All this action is complemented by a soundtrack provided by a rather interesting DJ character. His influence over the people and situations with his music is such that his importance to the story should not be underestimated.All in all, a very enjoyable read. To be honest, 24 hours later I am still thinking about it and it has been a while since a book's ideas have stayed with me after finishing reading it.