I have read and enjoyed other Keith Pearson books, and I generally like books about time travel, and yet… this book (or at least the first half of it) really dragged for me. I’m not sure if it was the slow plotting or the plodding narrator (or both) although when I increased the audible listening speed it did help reduce the boredom a bit.
There is a lot of setting up of the plot – Craig is 46 and in a loveless marriage and a dead end job and overweight and miserable. Then (finally) about half way through the book, when tidying his childhood bedroom he finds a computer game he’d written in his youth about time travel, which whooshes him back into his teenage self.
I preferred the second half, because who hasn’t wished to go back and relive events armed with adult knowledge and maturity and do them differently. There are some quite poignant scenes, although the sex scenes were uncomfortable.
The ending surprised me with a big cliff-hanger, so much so that I bought the second book (this time as a kindle book not an audiobook, both because it was cheaper and also because the narrator was so boring in the first book). Time will tell if things resolve nicely in the sequel.
Sarah Wray Writer 