Scan barcode
A review by alongapath
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
5.0
Jen Brotherhood witnesses a crime - a crime that will change her family forever. But when she wakes the next day, it is one day before the crime. At first she is distressed (obviously!) but soon she realizes that she has a rare opportunity to figure out what led to the crime and perhaps even stop it preemptively. But each time that she wakes up, she is further in the past, waking up on a day that will have some significance to the crime.
Despite the premise being slightly confusing with its suspension of disbelief, McAllister does an amazing job. She drops clues throughout and lets her reader piece them together. It feels like we are time travelling with Jen, looking for daily clues to solve this mysterious time loop.
As Jen circles back through her own life, I loved how she is able to see the stresses that had dominated her past - the mundaneness of parenthood, the inability to observe what was right in front of her, the meaningless passage of time - but this time around she is able to be present and appreciate the beauty of what she had, making the crime all the more important to solve so that her family can continue their idyllic lives.
I listened to the audio which was excellent except for the robotic time stamp included for each chapter. I never did figure out why McAllister chose to include the time of day (in military 24 hour clock) for each day.
Despite the premise being slightly confusing with its suspension of disbelief, McAllister does an amazing job. She drops clues throughout and lets her reader piece them together. It feels like we are time travelling with Jen, looking for daily clues to solve this mysterious time loop.
As Jen circles back through her own life, I loved how she is able to see the stresses that had dominated her past - the mundaneness of parenthood, the inability to observe what was right in front of her, the meaningless passage of time - but this time around she is able to be present and appreciate the beauty of what she had, making the crime all the more important to solve so that her family can continue their idyllic lives.
I listened to the audio which was excellent except for the robotic time stamp included for each chapter. I never did figure out why McAllister chose to include the time of day (in military 24 hour clock) for each day.