Genre: Science
Fiction/Time Travel
Description:
“How many lives would you spend to find your beloved?
Dominick Davidner was murdered. Then things got worse.
Instead of going on to the afterlife, Dominick found himself back in
his nine year old body, all memories of his previous life intact. All he can
think about is Emily, the love of his life, left behind when he died.
Unfortunately, she is now thousands of miles away. How can Dominick
find his way back to the woman he loves, and what will he say if he finds her?”
Author:
Former DJ, business consultant, and real estate agent, Shawn
Inmon is now a fulltime author. A regular contributor at Indies
Unlimited, Inmon can't seem to decide whether to write fiction (Rock'n
Roll Heaven), or non-fiction (he’s written two travels books, partially
chronicled at his A Lap Around America website).
Then there are his first two books that were novels based on truth or
fictionalized memoirs or … I don't know what to call them, but they were
somewhere in the middle.
Appraisal:
This is the third book in Inmon’s Middle Falls Time Travel series.
Each book can be read as a standalone novel because while each of the
protagonists spends some time living in the fictional town of Middle Falls,
Oregon, knowing what happened in a prior story isn’t needed to follow newer
books in the series. The main thing each book has in common is the protagonist
dies. Upon his death the character is shocked to discover that they’ve gone
back in time, to some point in their childhood. They have the body of a child,
but retain memories of the life they led before, which gives some clue as to
what might be coming, both for them personally and for the world in general.
The first two stories in the series focused on second chances with the
main characters trying to live their lives better the second time around. In
one case this was by avoiding a big mistake. In the other it was mainly by trying
to prevent someone else from making a major mistake that effected many others.
This installment of the series is different in that Dominick, the
protagonist, has only one goal when he starts his life over, to meet and marry
his spouse once again. Easy, isn’t it? Just do everything the same as you did
the first time around and it should work out fine. But it seems foolish to take
the same boring route through life, especially when there is an obvious
shortcut to get where you want quicker, right?
The premise of this series makes for some entertaining and
thought-provoking stories. As they illustrate, maybe if we had life to live
over again, knowing what we know after having learned a thing or two from the
school of hard knocks, it may not actually be as easy as we think to get a
better result. Just like my rewriting that sentence didn’t result in one that
ran on less, sometimes things don’t turn out better, just different.
FYI:
This is the third book in Inmon’s Middle Falls Time Travel series. It
can be read as a standalone novel.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 75-80,000 words
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