CW: death of parent, grief, car accident, abandonment, terminal illness
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I am a sucker for time travel stories and I’ve been wanting to read a Mike Chen book for ages so I was super excited to find this book in my library’s audiobook collection!

The synopsis and the prologue gave me the vibe that this story was going to follow a secret agent in action, jumping through time on missions which included saving his daughter but this book took a different direction and you know what it was pretty great!

Don’t get me wrong there is still a handful of action in this one and the concept of time travel was really interestingly handled, and all the accompanying science and technology in the story is pretty cool. However, this book has more of a literary edge to it than your usual sci-fi that focuses on the people, their relationships and their emotions. It is all about family and I really enjoyed it.

I will say the audiobook, though read pretty well had its issues.. one thing being the narrator’s accent kept slipping into sounding a little Australian when he was attempting British accents but I did get a good laugh out of how he pronounced Tottenham Hotspur 😂 😂

Anyways I’ve added all of Mike Chen’s other books to my tbr because if they have more of this sort of thing (which by the looks of it they do) then I know I’m going to love them!
Final Rating – 4.5/5 Stars