Title: Wrong Place Wrong Time
Author: Gillian McAllister
Book Review Written by Alice W.
Wrong Place Wrong Time opens with Jen, an anxious mother, waiting for her son Todd to return home. She feels like something bad is going to happen, and it turns out that she's right when Todd stabs and kills a stranger for seemingly no reason. Todd refused to answer any of Jen's questions about his motives, and he allows himself to be taken into custody by the police. Jen's husband, Kelly, is furious abut there isn't anything he can do. The two return home, and Jen falls asleep, questioning if the murder was her fault, if she had gone wrong somewhere while raising Todd.
When Jen wakes up, she realized that she'd gone back to the previous day, before Todd ever killed anyone. The day after that, she goes back in time two days. Eventually, she goes back weeks, then months, and then even decades. The further back in time Jen goes, the more she learns about herself, the people around her, and the event that led to Todd becoming a murder.
What I like about this book is the unique premise; the idea of going back in time to prevent a murder is something I've never seen before. There are also quite a few plot twists, thought they were mostly saved for near the end of the book. Unfortunately, I felt like for the majority of this book, things were happening way to slow, The book didn't capture my attention like I thought it would when I was reading the summary. I feel like the pace picked up more at the end of the book (maybe because of all the plot twists/reveals), and I really enjoyed the last two chapters. They wrapped up the book really neatly, in my opinion.
My Ratings: 3.2 ⭐ for the majority of the book, 4 ⭐ for the ending.
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