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A review by infinite_tbr
Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen
4.0
I enjoyed this book, though it took me a while to get into it. I couldn’t tell if that was because I just wasn’t feeling like reading or if it was the book. Either way, I didn’t get pulled in until I was about halfway through the story. But I did enjoy it once I got pulled in.
Kin Stewart is a secret time-travel agent working for the Temporal Correction Bureau when he gets stranded in the 90s, unable to return to 2142. After a couple of years, he decided to throw the TCB’s rules out the window and let himself have a life and a family. Years later, his past is mostly forgotten — except for the headaches and fainting spells he suffers when he tries to remember anything — and his family is doing well. Then, an agent from the TCB finds him and forces him to return to the future. Once there, he checks up on his wife and daughter only to learn that he must break the law to meddle with the timeline and save his daughter. Meanwhile, he’s having to adjust to his past/current life again, complete with a fiancée who knows nothing of his job.
The characters were interesting in this book and I liked seeing how the smallest events can send ripples through time. I appreciated the code the TCB operates on of non-interference, protecting the timeline at all costs. It was fascinating to see the conflicts that rose when the characters found their priorities bumping up against that code. Overall, I did like this book and wish I’d been more into it from the beginning.
Kin Stewart is a secret time-travel agent working for the Temporal Correction Bureau when he gets stranded in the 90s, unable to return to 2142. After a couple of years, he decided to throw the TCB’s rules out the window and let himself have a life and a family. Years later, his past is mostly forgotten — except for the headaches and fainting spells he suffers when he tries to remember anything — and his family is doing well. Then, an agent from the TCB finds him and forces him to return to the future. Once there, he checks up on his wife and daughter only to learn that he must break the law to meddle with the timeline and save his daughter. Meanwhile, he’s having to adjust to his past/current life again, complete with a fiancée who knows nothing of his job.
The characters were interesting in this book and I liked seeing how the smallest events can send ripples through time. I appreciated the code the TCB operates on of non-interference, protecting the timeline at all costs. It was fascinating to see the conflicts that rose when the characters found their priorities bumping up against that code. Overall, I did like this book and wish I’d been more into it from the beginning.