Genre: Time
Travel
Description:
“Nathaniel Moon is the reluctant messiah.
He has powers that define the word miraculous. But when he used those
powers to help others, he brought about a world of trouble.
Now Nathaniel lives a life of quiet obscurity, performing anonymous
miracles. But, his anonymity has to end, because evil is coming to Middle
Falls, Oregon, and threatens the people Nathaniel loves most.
It's going to take a reluctant messiah to put things right.”
Author:
Married to his high school sweetheart, Dawn (a romance chronicled from
both Shawn and Dawn’s point of view in Inmon’s first two books), Shawn Inmon
lives in southwestern Washington where he writes fulltime, or at least as
fulltime as he can without interfering too much with grandkid and pet
obligations. You can follow him on Facebook.
Appraisal:
I’ve read a few of the books in this series and thus far they all had
the same basic premise. The lead character dies, then comes back to life at
some point in their past, but with memories of their past life or in some instances
lives as they can die multiple times and return multiple times. In all cases,
the new lives are all restarts from the same point in their past. Probably
needless to say, this basic premise has an almost endless potential for unique
characters and possibilities for how they use their new lives. Some try to get
things right that they didn’t get right the first time (or first three or four
or five times). Others try to prevent something bad from happening to someone
else the next time around. Given the number of successful romance books published
that are built around one basic story, I’m confident Inmon could have done many
more time travel stories without messing with his formula here. But he has.
This time around we have a character (actually we have two) who fit
the basic premise, but the main character is different. Yes, he appears to be
living another life (his last one according to the title) but there are some
differences in him that make a big difference in the story, where it can go,
and where it does go. The places it sends the reader’s thoughts are also a lot
different than the prior stories, no longer wondering what you might do
differently if you could “do it all over again” but also wondering about the
concepts of good and selflessness as well as the difficulty of balancing your personal
needs with those of others. Shawn Inmon’s books, especially those in this series,
have a way of prompting thought which to me is one of the main reasons I read,
to see and consider things from different points of view. If you feel the same,
this book should hit the spot.
FYI:
Part of the Middle Falls Time Travel series. These books largely take
place in the same fictional Washington town and may sometimes have characters
that show up from other books, but all of them also stand alone.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 55-60,000 words
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