Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Gillian McAllister (4.5)
Writing good time travel books must be very difficult. My definition of bad is that you have to suspend your imagination too much and the flow of details is interrupted by a mistake. I also find the ones that go over the same timeframe (ala ‘Groundhog Day’) tiresome. This book has none of those features. From the first chapter to the last, I was engaged in the story and anxious to see what happens next (or prior?). It starts with the main character watching her son come home one night. She sees him stab and kill a strange man outside their house. She wakes the next day to find she has woken up the day before all this has occured. As she tries to make sense of it, she continues to wake up farther in the past and learns more and more about her son and husband by reliving events with new eyes. In addition to an interesting plot, reviewing past events with different eyes was thought-provoking to me.
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