Review: Time Travel Suspense Novel with a Fast-Paced Plot
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 2, 2014
"The Thanksgiving Gang" is a time travel suspense novel in which Jack Thurber finds himself in 2017--two years from the present day in which he lives. The only problem is, the future in which he finds himself is one in which he and his beloved wife (Ashley) have been killed in a terrorist attack.Even though he's not sure of the ramifications of changing the past, Jack can't bear the idea of what has happened, and he soon has looked up his old friend Bennie, a psychiatrist with the NYPD, and together with a New York Times reporter they begin to investigate who blew up the ships--and how Jack can stop it from happening when he goes back in time. The hunt takes him not only all over NYC to find answers and convince people he's alive and a time traveler, but even to the Middle East for an action-packed ending that keeps the pages turning."The Thanksgiving Gang" is the sequel to "The Gray Ship," and while I did really enjoy the first novel and found it very entertaining, "The Thanksgiving Game" is stronger and more exciting (at least in my opinion as a reader). I think what upped the ante is that Jack has such a personal stake in the outcome of his time traveling this time, and since you've already come to like him and Ashley as characters in a previous book, you're invested in his success. I also enjoyed the alternating perspectives--you get Jack's voice, as well as Bennie's, Wally's, and Janice, who is a new character who adds both humor and grit to the book (she's the wife of one of the terrorists).I would recommend this novel to readers who enjoy suspense novels with a science fiction twist, but that aren't too heavy on the science fiction--it's an engaging, exciting read.