Jeremiah Bourne in Time

by Nigel Planer

Hardcover

About the author

Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953 in Westminster, London) is an English actor, comedian, novelist and playwright. Planer is perhaps best known for his role as Neil Pye in the cult BBC comedy The Young Ones. He has appeared in many West End musicals, including Evita, Chicago, We Will Rock You, Wicked and Hairspray. He is long time comedy partners with Peter Richardson. He also narrates the children's TV show, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids.

Reviews

[Michael Ritchie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lovely play on time travel with some fun ideas, and I liked glimpses of the future. However, dispense with the meta footnotes, which were clearly meant to be funny but kept falling flat with me, unfortunately. Meant to the first in a trilogy, but no mention of when it's carrying on yet.

[mrs e j stringfellow · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's rare for me to give up totally on a book but this one was the one

[Chris Cowan · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun novel with some interesting ideas. The writing came across as a bit inconsistent in style and tone.

[Damian Knight · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent book with so much potential for the series.

[KeenReader · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was OK, but I was expecting to rate it higher when I started it. I liked the idea of it, but although it was full of incident, the real plot moved very slowly and there wasn't really any tension. The villain was a bit stereotypical and although it was fairly amusing, it had the feel of a book written for a young, pre-adult audience.
There were also a lot of distracting footnotes, which were ostensibly a fight between the author and the editor and they were amusing, but reading about the author and his editor took me right out of the novel, which may be partly why I never really got into the plot.