Genre: Time
Travel
Description:
“All Michael Hollister wanted was death.
What he got, was time travel.
Convicted of murder, and with nothing left to live for, Michael
commits suicide in his jail cell in 1977, then opens his eyes in 1966, in his
eight-year-old body, all memories of his previous life intact.
His first thoughts are of the dark intentions of his father. When the
man who raised him once again tries to do the unthinkable, Michael has a chance
to right his childhood's greatest wrong. But, can he do that without becoming a
killer all over again?”
Author:
“Have you ever noticed how almost every author on Amazon is both a ‘bestselling’
and ‘award winning’ author? Well, so is Shawn Inmon. He once dominated the
Lithuanian Clog Dancing Romance category for two heady days back in 2013. He
also was named third runner up in Mrs. Marsh's third grade spelling bee in
1968. Somewhere, he still has the certificate to prove it. Although he has
never matched either of these two career highlights, he keeps plugging away.
Shawn hails from Mossyrock, Washington--the setting for his first two
books, Feels Like the First Time, and
Both Sides Now.
He is a full-time author who lives in picturesque Seaview, Washington
on the Pacific Ocean.”
Appraisal:
This book is being billed as the second in the “Middle Falls Time
Travel series.” The first, The Unusual
Second Life of Thomas Weaver, had as its protagonist a character who died
and found himself in a new life, kind of. He’d wake up as the same person,
taken back in time to when he was a kid, but with all the knowledge of what
he’d done in his past life or lives. Maybe a better term would be a “do over.”
In that book Thomas had a classmate, Michael Hollister. If you’ve read the book
you’ll know Michael wasn’t a very nice person. In fact, he was Oregon’s most
prolific serial killer.
With that introduction to Michael you might wonder how he could
possibly redeem himself. But when Michael finds a way to “end it all” while in
prison, then wakes up in his boyhood bed in his boyhood home he’s smart enough
to recognize the chance he’s been given. That’s the easy part. The hard part is
figuring out what to do differently this time around.
The author does a masterful job of taking a character that was
irredeemable to those who read the prior book and somehow redeeming him. Not
excusing him for the crimes he committed in his past life, but helping us to
understand how he got to that point and drawing us into the story so that we were
pulling for Michael to find a different path for his life the next time around.
The premise of the books in this series of being given another chance is an
interesting mind exercise that makes for entertaining books. Well done, Mr.
Inmon.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating:
***** Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 55-60,000 words
1 comment:
This looks very interesting. I just downloaded a copy.
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