FutureImperfect

Timetripper #4

by Stefan Petrucha

In the thrilling and surreal finale to the TimeTripper series, Harry Keller finds himself stuck back at Windfree mental hospital, where all the progress he thought he'd made has crumbled and he is too devastated to pick up the pieces. Original.

Genres: Young Adult

215 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published April 5, 2007

About the author

Stefan Petrucha (born January 27, 1959) is an American writer for adults and young adults. He has written graphic novels in the The X-Files and Nancy Drew series, as well as science fiction and horror.
Born in the Bronx, he has spent time in the big city and the suburbs, and now lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, fellow writer Sarah Kinney, and their daughters. At times he has been a tech writer, an educational writer, a public relations writer and an editor for trade journals, but his preference is for fiction in all its forms.

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 3 out of 5]

FutureImperfect by Stephen Petrucha is the fourth and last book of the Timetripper series. In this book, the protagonist, Harry Keller was seen as mental patient who is put in a mental hospital, under medications because he claims that Jeremy Gronson, the antagonist, is going to kill almost everybody using “A-Time” which is a magical realm where the person there can see the past, present and future! Furthermore, in A-Time, the person can change the past and future to however they want which is the exact way Jeremy is going to kill everyone and the next one is Harry. Meanwhile, no one seems to believe in what Harry is saying and locking him away under drugs which are preventing him from entering A-Time. Having to read the first book (Yestermorrow) and second book (Inrage) of the Timetripper series a long time ago while not reading the third book (Blindsighted), it took me a long time to catch up to the main idea of what might have occurred in the third book while reminding myself of what some of the characters are. For example, in A-time, there are these creatures, Quirks, who make these pig-like noises that make things happen that are unexpected. The Quirks almost even cause Harry to commit suicide by jumping off a roof (however, he did not die). After reading this book, I did not enjoy this book as much especially the ending. While I was reading the epilogue, after a few paragraphs, it started to repeat itself for about three times for the whole entire four pages. In addition, I thought that the ending was like a cliffhanger, which lead me think what is going to happen to the antagonist and protagonist. If the author, Petrucha, was trying to hint or show what is going to happen, it didn’t do such as good job.

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A good, two star ending for a generally two star series. I enjoyed it, but I found the "climax" rather convenient. Harry was good, Siara wasn't bad. But things just seemed to fit together to conveniently.