This was a fun read about a group of friends getting zapped back in time. It does make you ponder what one would do if they could time travel. Of course, remaining in your reality can be a challenge, but it isn’t necessarily a requirement.
The pace starts strong, but then slows a bit, in what I feel is a convoluted section of the story – then picks back up. The bit that slowed things down for me was a lab fire – to a drunk – to a cowboy – to a shell – and back. There, that gives absolutely nothing away, but will make perfect sense after the fact.
Where the science is soft, it does become more complex when dealing with a fractal universe; paradoxes only occur when great change merits, and from there it is a matter of a new alternate timeline. The use of frequency to figure out what’s-what, was interesting.
Although the book touts ‘action and romance’, I will say the romance is quite thin, which I found perfectly acceptable. This is heavily based on the characters and their interactions with time and each other.
Some more philosophical thoughts as I consumed this book – again, what would you do? How do you know where the green grass really is? Would you gamble your life on an unknown? If you didn’t stick to one reality, would you be fulfilled with your life? And finally, would you walk away from time travel?
The short – it was an entertaining read with quality characters. There is good bits of action and it leaves the reader room to wonder about it all.
I"ll keep an eye on this author..
4 of 5 stars From the Publisher:
"We broke something. How do you break time? Can something so bad happen that you fracture the world?" Benjamin Travers has been electrocuted. What’s worse, he and his friends have woken up in the past. As the friends search for a way home, they realize they’re not alone. There are other time travelers, and some of them are turning up dead.
When Ben meets an enigmatic scientist and his charming, time-traveling daughter, salvation seems at hand, but escaping the dangers of the past may lead to a deadly future.
If he hopes to save his friends, Ben must learn to master space and time, and survive a journey where past and future violently collide. Action and romance heat up in this first book of the time travel adventure series.
