Time Skip

Time Skip #1

by Craig L. Seymour

Time Skip is a twist on the usual time travel tale. Our protagonist doesn't exactly travel through time, he skips back in it.

Curtis Lovelle was a middle aged man with a happy life. He had a good marriage and little boy who was the light of his life. When asked by a coworker, “If you could do things over again, would you do anything different?” Curtis was sure he would not. But when he woke up in his parent’s house, eighteen years in the past, he would find out how just how impossible it could be to do recreate the life he led.

Curtis begins again as a sixteen year old, trying desperately not to alter the course of his life. As he negotiates high school for the second time, he becomes keenly aware of how easily each mistake can send his life off on a new trajectory. And if that isn’t frustrating enough, he soon realizes that he is uniquely positioned to stop the mass murder of more than 3000 people seventeen years before it happens. Torn by his need to regain his life and his obligation to stop the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Curtis experiences heart breaking setbacks and incredible triumphs as he navigates his way through a life he has already lived.

Genres: Time Travel, Science Fiction

216 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 20, 2014

Reviews

[Craig Seymour · Rating 5 out of 5]

Author's Review - Time Skip was inspired when someone asked me that age old question, "If you had it all to do over again, would you change anything." My first reaction was that I would certainly not. Not being a fatalist, I can't regret even my biggest mistakes, because they were a part of what led me to the place where I was, and the family I adored. Then I started to imagine just how impossible it would be to do everything the same. Those imaginings led to the novel "Time Skip".

[Ryan Mccall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, all of the time differences to the protagonists life were intriguing and I could not put it down. Highly recommend this book to anyone who likes time travel fiction

[Sean Randall · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm afraid I viewed this as sort of an American wet dream. In these time travel stories the Second World War is the king of undoables, but of course 9/11 has a much greater immediacy in the world's consciousness.

apart from that being obvious, the story line was lackadaisical and the grammar questionable (of the 312 occurrences of the word "but", 200 had a comma after them). The characters were bland to the point of nonexistence, the methodology contrived and so artificial as to be ridiculous and the future direction seems set to introduce other people traveling in time, a trope overused in extremis. SO although a small, curious part of me wants to see what happens next, the rest of me couldn't give a hoot.

[Brian Borgford · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had a tough time getting through this book. In fact it took me a couple of months. The premise is very interesting and a somewhat unique take on time travel. However much of the story dragged with long details of teen loves, which was in start contrast to the interesting and exciting start to the book. One reviewer commented on a "bad ending". I wouldn't go so far as to say it was bad, but it felt a bit flat after a strong and exciting climax. But still an intriguing twist. I see there is a follow up story, but at least this book does not end with a strong hook to the next book. Overall the storyline was interesting, but the slow moving parts made it tough to stay attached.

[Vicky Mullen · Rating 3 out of 5]

couldnt get into it

[Beth Balen · Rating 3 out of 5]

An entertaining story but not real well written.

[Susan Lichtfuss · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting plot

Could not turn the pages fast enough! Enjoyed this book and can't wait to start the next one. Well written.