I won this book in a goodreads drawing.

A lot of hard science fiction concerning time travel and the possible effects. Everybody who thinks about time travel wants to go back and save JFK and Lincoln, and kill Hitler.

Some guy with a scientist father saves his father, creates a new universe, while a time cop visits an alternate universe, and gets stranded.

Confusing but in a good way.

I'm still not sure how to rate this book & honestly, I might up it to 3 stars after I have a chance to ponder it for a bit. Because right now... WTF just happened? I don't... I'm not sure... I just... The beginning was super important & the end was super important (or was that really the beginning?). But I'm unsure why a big chunk of the middle happened. And I was so confused when Chance got shot at the end. Here's why: If Chance & Cassie didn't go to Berlin & create Leonard's r...

This is a book that cried out for better editing. The typos and other errors were thick on the ground and the quality of the writing varied wildly from pretty good to oh dear, I wish he hadn't done that. The science was so shonky it would have been far better if he'd left out all attempts at explaining any of the time travel physics, and he used words like "supercollided" which, might be mildly jarring the first time you see them, but were positively irritating the fifth, or tenth.Aside from the...

For as long as I discovered the writings of Michael Crichton, Timeline has been my favorite Time Traveling novel. I have found one that has finally dethroned it. The Prodigal Hour: A Time Travel Novel deals with quantum physics on a level that I barely grasp. For the most part I don’t even know if the theoretical science is sound but it’s compelling and logical to my mind.It follows my logic and understanding of time travel which made it instantly relatable. I like how Entrekin inserted his char...

I want to review The Prodigal Hour, I just don't think my words will do it justice. It's a fantastic story that is both complex and simple at the same time. The premise of time travel and it's potential ramifications create endless possibilities that keep the reader guessing up to the very last chapter. It's excellent writing, full of action, driven by well developed characters. What more could you want?In his acknowlegements, Will Entrekin hopes he committed art with this book. He most certainl...

I don't like time travel and I don't like Science Fiction, yet I absolutely loved this novel. I am always excited when a book outside of my preferred genre excites and engages, due to strong story and great writing.

Without spoiling the story, I was impressed that I cared equally for the characters in both timelines/realities. The alternative timeline felt as equally flushed out as our own recent history.

Great enjoyable read!

What would you do if you had the ability to travel through time? Would you try to change something that happened to you in your past? Would you look to the future? Or would you consider some of the horrific events that have happened in our world and try to “fix” them?Chance Sowin has this very ability thrust into his hands just six weeks after escaping the World Trade Center attacks. He has decided to move back home in hopes to find that security that being home always seemed to offer. Upon arri...

(Spoiler alert! Read no further if you like every aspect of a book to be a new and shiny surprise.)As any experienced time traveler will tell you, the first thing a newly minted chrono-tourist always wants to do is kill Hitler. It's understandable, of course, the Nazis being one of the ugliest blemishes on human history, and seemingly avoidable with the eradication of one megalomaniac art student. So, I admit, whilst reading The Prodigal Hour, when (Spoiler!) the main character Chance suggests k...

The Prodigal Hour is an ambitious novel, to say the least.  It is both strange and complex and for all the right reasons. The author, Will Entrekin, somehow figured out a way to intertwine the tragedies of September 11, the crucifixion of Jesus, and the possibility of time travel into a single narrative.  And he does so admirably.  I already feel like...read more

A couple of months ago I read Meets Girl by Will Entrekin and became an instant fan of his work. I jokingly said in my review that if he needed someone to review The Prodigal Hour, his forthcoming novel, to holler. Well, he took me seriously. (YAY!)A few weeks ago Will sent me an email with his new baby attached. I was very eager to begin reading it. I had grandiose plans to read it all in one sitting but life has a way of catching up with you, as we all know. Things have been extremely hectic f...