Draconian rules really mess things up, even when there’s good reason for them. Kin Stewart gets stuck in the Bay Area in the 1990s, 150 years in his past. Several years later, people from the timeline control organization he works for come to find him. Trouble is, he resigned himself to being marooned, and now has a wife and daughter. And because of physiological issues with time travel, he no longer remembers the time he came from.
When he disappears to return to his future, his daughter finds the journal he used to try to record his home time when he could still remember. And that starts the problems with the organization he works for.
Mike Chen weaves an excellent storyline. And he peoples that story with characters you grow to care about. Even the sticklers for the rules are likable, unlike some of the folks I worked for during 25 years as a design engineer in Silicon Valley. The settings are familiar from my time there - San Francisco, the Santa Cruz Mountains and driving Highway 17 through them, the Oakland Cemetery where my grandfather is buried.
There’s just enough descriptive detail to paint mental pictures, and the personal tics of characters add to their identities and helps fill in story details. Internal and external dialog tells most of the story - you discover things through characters’ thoughts and words, as you should.
Bottom line - a very entertaining and provocative novel. It makes you consider - how much would you go through to save your family?
Highly recommended.
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Time travel full of heart
This is the second book I’ve read by Mike Chen and what I’ve noticed most about his books is that his characters are full of love and will do anything for their family and friends.In this time travel book, Kin is trapped in the 1990’s and ends up falling in love, getting married, and has a daughter. Eighteen years later, his peers from his own time of 2142 come back to rescue him and take him back to 2142. But Kin loves his life and his family and doesn’t want to go. Due to time travel effects, his memory has erased the life he knew in 2142.Upon his return to his own time, he realizes that only a couple of weeks have passed there and he has a fiancé and a great life in his own timeline. Once his memory is restored, he spends all of his time obsessing about his family back in the past.I loved the ending of this story and can’t wait to see what Chen comes up with next!I listened to this book on audiobook narrated by Cary Hite and it was a good performance. Some work is needed for accents, but the rest of it was good.
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Ben Hayes
Wonderful life affirming book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2023
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Surprisingly emotional tale about time travel and bureaucracy
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