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I would recommend this to anyone who loves thrillers and also those who want to get started with psychological thrillers. Think of second chances, time loops, a mother's unconditional love, smart moves, and unintended consequences. Wrong Place Wrong Time is a masterfully plotted and ingenious psychological thriller told in reverse.
Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow Publishing for the ARC of Wrong Place, Wrong Time in exchange for an honest review. Each day Jen is presented with a series of new facts, new events, new people as she begins to learn more about her son, her husband and her own life. We can see how Jen catches a person lying convincingly only because she saw the future and is coming to the past from the future. The author tells us that parenting is the most important gift that parents can bestow upon their children. All those moments, those interactions, those individuals you come across are unfolding at rocket speed on an almost predestined course.The most intriguing premise for a novel I have seen in some time, and what's more the story more than lives up to it! Over the course of the story she feels that she is to blame for what her son Todd has done in the present day when he kills someone. I was so happy to read from an article written by the author that the writing of this book changed the whole outlook of the author towards motherhood which made her decide to have a baby.
After consulting with a time travelling expert multiple times (he never remembers her), she resigns herself to jumping and combing for clues. Then this British author decided to insert some snide political comments about the 2020 US election. Wrong Place, Wrong Time further proves this point as the concept is her most intriguing and experimental yet. Wrong Place Wrong Time sets the stage with a murder unfolding right before the eyes of a shocked mother waiting up late one night for her son.Confused, panicked and still in shock, Jen sets herself the task of discovering the root cause of what went wrong for her son. Jen begins to move back through time to discover what events led her son to become a killer, and hopefully stop it from happening in the future.
A lot of people say they didn’t finish the book, that it dragged, or that the ending didn’t redeem the book. If you like a book that keeps you gripped and eagerly anticipating the next move, then you will be immersed in this one. All I’m going to say is that on day zero just after midnight Jen is anxiously waiting for her son Todd to come home. There are many twists and surprises, but they all align and add up to jaw dropping perfection as the story unfolds.Jen witnesses her 17-year-old son, Todd, murdering a total stranger on the street outside her house. The time loop is merely a device to set up the premise and enable the story to be told in a different way. Yes, I will admit the beginning was a slow grind full of repetitiveness in the vein of Groundhog Day, but, once the basics were in place (I didn’t get to this point the first time around), the twists and turns were truly mind-blowing. On the one hand, the narrator is fabulous and does a wonderful job inflecting various voices for the differing characters; on the other, it made it more difficult to keep up with the jumping timeline and easier to zone out on the more repetitive parts.
And, right then, it had felt, suddenly, like spring, even though it began to rain again only minutes later. Time travel is the plot device du jour, so if you try to wrangle with the logistics of it all, you will most likely be hella annoyed. Initially I was not excited about this premise but then got into it and revelled in the new facts, and twists to the story I just didn’t see coming.There is an element of moving forward in time from an undisclosed point at the same time as moving backwards in time from Jen's perspective, but it's weirdly not at all hard to follow. In fact, there is a place where she is so far removed from that date, that she even forgets what exactly she witnessed. Each day she relives in the past she sees through new eyes, catches new things, chases new leads, and learns more and more about her life and family and what led up to that fateful day. I really enjoyed the Groundhog Day style of storytelling, although I think the middle began to drag a bit, and we go waaaaay back to the beginning of "the story" to finally figure out the "secrets" and "mysteries" of why this family is at the heart of a terrible crime where a mother has no warning as to why her beloved son would stab a seemingly strange man.
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