Review: Confusing Time Travel Adventure with many typos
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2014
I've read about 100 free books from Amazon. Far Forward by C. F. Waller had as many typos as the rest of them combined. This interfered with my enjoyment of the story.Our heroine begins by (MINOR SPOILER ALERT) killing a terrorist, his wife and children.  She chain smokes and is in an adulterous relationship. If this is the kind of person you want to read about, I recommend reading someone else's review.  You probably already know what I think.At work she watches TV and eats cookies and is, in a word, lazy. She gradually becomes more appealing but never really became the kind of person I wanted to read about.After over a third of the book has passed, the time travel begins. This takes an, up until then, confusing story, and ties it into knots. The time travel books I've read come in three types: a simple story well-told, a fairly simple story with a confusing explanation, and the third category (into which this falls), a confusing story where the explanation muddles things even further.All time travel books must deal, at least in passing, with the issue of time paradoxes.  Far Forward wades into this with both feet, with the result that the story and characters become so tainted that I nearly gave up. But having stuck with it that far, I felt compelled to finish.Far Forward gets a lot of good reviews, which I, frankly, find puzzling. And I found the poorer reviews to be accurate,for a change. Normally I agree with the more positive reviews but not this time. There are much better time travel novels out there. My advice is to go read one.The plot moves along well with plenty of action but as the bodies pile up, the characters leave such a bad taste that it couldn't be over quick enough for me.