4.5 stars (rounding up to 5 because I really want people to check this out!)"All Our Wrong Todays" was the perfect book to read after "Recursion". And I had no clue how similar it would be. In fact, if you just finished "Recursion" and you're looking for something just like it, give "All Our Wrong Todays" a try!I would describe this debut novel from Elan Mastai as a cross between Blake Crouch (author of Recursion) and Andy Weir ("The Martian" and "Artemis"). The reason I mention Weir is that the...

This sci-fi novel had some genuinely fascinating concepts! I listened to **All Our Wrong Todays** by Elan Mastai as an audiobook, and while the author did a solid job narrating, I'd actually recommend grabbing a physical copy. One chapter is basically just the word "Fuck" repeated, and some passages are written backward... not exactly audiobook-friendly!I had a couple of issues with it that I'll dive into during my end-of-month wrap-up since I'm struggling to articulate them properly here! Look ...

1.5 stars, maybe. Just another time travel story, mostly used as an excuse to dig into relationships or morality or, you know, whatever. If Dark Matter is the super slick action thriller, then Elan Mastai's **All Our Wrong Todays** is its quirky rom-com/action thriller cousin. It's got all the ingredients: the average Joe male lead who's all "I'm no hero"; the cute, nerdy, but unconventionally hot and smart female lead who *gets* him in a way no one else can; their meet-cute that, of course, hap...

There are some clever ideas in here, but the writing style of **All Our Wrong Todays** is so grating that giving it three stars feels like a massive overestimation. *All Our Wrong Todays* tells the story of Tom Barren, who travels back in time to the precise moment the future was born and screws up the timeline so badly that he ends up in our reality. Get it? Our very own lives are *actually* the dystopia? Anyway, the world is much worse, but he winds up in a duplicate copy of his family that i...

I've struggled for a while to review Elan Mastai's *All Our Wrong Todays* because, on one hand, I absolutely detested it and don't want to spend any more time thinking about it – but on the other hand, it has a baffling number of high-star reviews, and honestly, that really bugs me. There's just nothing good happening here; the plot quickly veers away from the promised time-travel-based moral dilemma into a shallow romance, a hastily thrown-together secondary conflict, and a saccharine, overly s...

Every person you meet introduces the accident of that person to you. What can go right and what can go wrong. There is no intimacy without consequence. To get it out of the way, there's a lot of setup in *All Our Wrong Todays*, and it took me a bit to find my footing with this book and really fall into it. But once Elan Mastai gets past the initial setup and the plot really kicks off, the smart, funny prose and well-developed characters propelled me forward. Even if the stakes and thrills are...

3.5 Stars. I read this at a perfect time because I've recently had the strange feeling that I'm living in the wrong timeline! ;) I'm going to avoid specific plot details, but here's a quick review for those who want to know as little as possible: The tone of Elan Mastai's *All Our Wrong Todays* is lighthearted and self-aware, making it an entertaining read. The main character and his love life didn't excite me, but I loved the technology, the exploration of different realities, and the questions...

I'm always hunting for a good time-travel and alternate-reality story, so when *All Our Wrong Todays* slid across my radar, practically shouting that it was a self-aware member of the genre, I had to take a look. And I'm so glad I did! Seriously. I even thought about just reading the first few pages and then waiting until closer to the release date. It's still months away! But I got completely sucked in and couldn't stop.It's a memoir. Yep. An alternate reality memoir with time-machine shenaniga...

3.5ish stars for this time travel/alternate timelines novel. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature:Tom Barren lives in a near-utopian version of our world in 2016, the world that Disney and science fiction optimistically imagined in the 1950s that we would one day have, complete with flying cars, ray guns, space vacations, and other Amazing Stories and Jetson-like technology. There’s a single compelling reason for this: in 1965, a man named Lionel Goettreider invented an engine that p...

I'd rate this 4.5 stars. If *Back to the Future* and *Dark Matter* had a baby, the end result would be Elan Mastai's slightly crazy, tremendously compelling *All Our Wrong Todays*. While it's not as zany as the former, or as heart-pounding as the latter, it's a really creative, thought-provoking book with a lot more heart than you'd expect from a novel about time travel. Tom Barren lives in 2016, but it's not quite the 2016 we all know—it's more like the vision of the future we all had when we...