4.5 stars ...

Super fun!
Highly recommended,
if you're into this genre.👍👍

What a fun audiobook! Truth be told, I have a serious love-hate relationship with time travel books. They tend to irritate me, because they become so outlandish and contradictory that they make the show Supernatural seem plausible. But this one didn't completely butcher current science. It explained away a lot of the complexities in a satisfying (though vague) way. And the characters, while not as developed as I would have liked, were worth cheering on toward their goals. It was engaging, enjoya...

5 wonderful mind bogging time travel stars once again! one of the best time travel adventures! Cannot wait to start book 2!!This has been such an amazing ride. As a big time travel fan, i have to say, this has become one of my favorite time travel novels. It kept me on the edge of my seat most of the story; fast paced action pack mind boggling time travel adventure! If a time travel story does not give you a bit of a headache then you know it's not a "time travel" one. The character development ...

This is a fun Time travel romp, that I could relate to easily. Being a 30 something myself and a child of the 80's it was fun to go back to 1985, however this book does not reference enough pop culture like unto Ready Player One. This book focuses on the action and also the science of the time travel. Some hard core techies may eat up the science behind it all, and I agree some explanation as to how is time travel possible is warranted, but as a reader there were times when the science and expla...

Other reviewers have said that although the book is slow during the first half to two-thirds, it picks up from there. I will never know. I sometimes read books that start slow, but only when the writing is pitch-perfect and the characters are truly interesting to me. This was not the case here. The time traveling characters in this book are oddly immature. They speak and behave as if they are much younger than their given ages of 24-26. In fact, a commentator on Goodreads referred to the book in...

I very much enjoyed this novel. The opening premise is a winner: accidental time travel. The author does a good job of introducing five distinct characters, and isn't at all afraid to torture them or let them off the hook. He's also done a considerable amount of very hard thinking to explain a plausible means of time travel - one which doesn't make it easy for the protagonists. This is a good page-turner and I'm looking forward to reading more from this author, as he's clearly someone who works ...

If I'm dead tired, but I want to read another chapter to find out what happens, I know I'm reading a good book. If I find myself thinking about the storyline while I'm at work, it's a good book (or a slow day at work). If I finish the book and yearn for more, it's a good book.The structure, character development and plot were all well thought out, but it must have been a nightmare to make all the elements gel, but, such is the nature of time travel. What I liked most was that this is a complete ...

Imagine that you and a few friends get electrocuted in a lightning storm and suddenly find yourselves in 1985. Where would you sleep for the night? What would you do to try to get back to your home time? “It’s an odd feeling to be thinking of a specific time as being home, but [Benjamin realizes] more and more how much it matters to [him] to be in the same flow of time as [all his] friends.” Just when it seems that Benjamin and his friends are hopelessly stuck in a year of big hair and leg warme...

I finally finished this book last night! The author did a great job wrapping everything up. But I admit, that even as a Time Travel (TT) enthusiast, I found myself quite befuddled while trying to keep the story straight amongst all the TT "rules". Don't get me wrong, some of the most important factors in a TT novel are the means of travel (eg. time machine, magic gem, meditation) and the rules! Can one travel to a time where he or she already exists? Do you need an object from the time you are t...

Totally Awesome! Perhaps the best time travel book I've ever read. And it is Van Coops' first!Realistically developed plot and characters. The tale draws us in by both its mundane nature and the true-to-life way the characters react to their impossible situation. Van Coop builds his plot in stages, often teetering on the brink of techno-babble or boredom only to shove his characters--and the reader--off in some unforeseen direction. A flawed and very human protagonist. Tension builds as every at...