Review: In Time
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 2, 2011
In the beginning I had a hard time getting in to this book because it starts out a little bit technical and I was not sure what direction it was going to go in. I am not a huge fan of overly sci-fi material. There was a point where I had to put it away for a little bit and come back to it. Sometimes if I try again I am able to really get in to the book. I tried another chapter. This was suddenly going nowhere, fast. Third time is the charm? Maybe. I gave it one more try. We are introduced to Daniel, an extremely well educated engineer and software developer who lands a project working in New Mexico regarding electromagnetism. Daniel is 37 years old and married to his career. Although content in his little world he often wonders if there is more to life than what he is living. Fortunate for him, life is about to change. It is here the plot thickens (for lack of a better cliché) and the story really starts to take shape. Working on the gravitational experiment one day, he suddenly wakes up back at his parents' Ohio house, in his old bedroom. The problem is it is 1992 at the tender age of 19. Unsure of what to do with this new life he heads down to Cocoa Beach, FL with the hopes of saving the shuttle from disaster. Back in New Mexico one of the partners on the design team of the Endeavor had spoken to him about the design flaw that led to the terrible explosion. If he is going to go back in time, retaining his knowledge, may as well use if for something useful, right? While in Florida, Daniel seeks out the friendship of a friend he had met in his previous life. It is Bill, a Christian, he starts to remember what little faith he had buried inside of him, and starts to question science, time travel, his live and God. What follows is a tale of life, love, marriage and children. Daniel was given a chance to re-do his life. Instead of rushing around trying to change things and use his knowledge for something bad, he used it to change himself. He found his faith, made peace with the decisions of his past and fell in love. I felt it a little odd that a Christian based novel would have a sci-fi time travel tale within its pages, Hambleton made it work. I highly recommend this book, not just to faith followers, but to anyone interested one with a time traveling twist. If you went back in time knowing all you knew, what would you do differently, if anything?