My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Mystery, Fantasy, Time Travel
Content: Strong language
When Nigel Walden is
fourteen, the unhappenings begin. His first girlfriend disappears the
day after their first kiss with no indication she ever existed. This
retroactive change is the first of many only he seems to notice.
Several
years later, when Nigel is visited by two people from his future, he
hopes they can explain why the past keeps rewriting itself around him.
But the enigmatic young guide shares very little, and the haggard,
incoherent, elderly version of himself is even less reliable. His search
for answers takes him fifty-two years forward in time, where he finds
himself stranded and alone.
And then he meets Helen.
Brilliant,
hilarious and beautiful, she captivates him. But Nigel’s relationships
always unhappen, and if they get close it could be fatal for her. Worse,
according to the young guide, just by entering Helen’s life, Nigel has
already set into motion events that will have catastrophic consequences.
In his efforts to reverse this, and to find a way to remain with Helen,
he discovers the disturbing truth about the unhappenings, and the role
he and his future self have played all along.
Time travel can be tricky to write, but this was a pretty good time travel story. The book deals with all the intended and unintended consequences of changing the past. I was a little disappointed in the reason all the unhappenings started. I mean really, did it have to be over that? I wanted it to be something more original, but the story kept me interested.
I enjoyed reading all the emotions the main character went through as things happened, then unhappened. At some points it was heartbreaking. I definitely wouldn't have wanted to live this guys life!
If you liked Blake Crouch's Recursion, then you might like this one.
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