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[  Mood: Sleepy ]
I wanted to enjoy this book, if solely for the inventive title, but I actually had to give up halfway through as the book was so convoluted and downright boring. And given that this is supposed to be a murder mystery of a body discovered inside a time machine, that is hard to believe. But author K.A. Bedford has managed to bore me so much, I stopped reading this book.

I mean, the main character looks Seth Green. I wanted to love this book.

Our main character is a former cop who discovered that police officers were travelling back in time to molest children. He reported it, but then was drummed out of the force. Now it appears that he is the prime suspect in the murder, only because he found the body. And when his future self is also found dead, there is even more suspicion directed at him.

But I didn’t bother to find out what happens, because at the halfway mark, I didn’t care. At all. So I gave up.

I will admit that time travel is probably my least favourite of the science-fiction devices. It tends to be used as Deus-Ex-Machina, fixing plot holes that the author has written themselves into. And then there are the implications of you travel back in time to warn yourself not to do something, so you don’t do it, so then the thing never happens, which means that you never travelled back in time, so you never warned yourself. Oh my head hurts.

(And yes I know I love Doctor Who, and I know that’s a contradiction but I am fine with it.)

Now, author Bedford does address this by saying people tend not to believe their future selves and that alternate timelines are created, but again, it is so poorly done that I just didn’t care.

Take my advice people. Don’t bother with this one.

P.S. And, no, I won’t be doing an "Ubalstecha Intends to Read" any time in the future staring this book.