Gillian MacAlister
http://www.gillianmcallister.com
First published May 12, 2022
Audio book
About:
Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened?
It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the darkness. As Jen watches through the window, she sees her funny, seemingly happy teenage son stab a total stranger.
She doesn’t know who the victim is, or why Todd has committed such a devastating act of violence. All she knows is that her life, and Todd’s, have been shattered.
After her son is taken into custody, Jen falls asleep in despair. But when she wakes up… it is yesterday. The murder has not happened yet—and there may be a chance to stop it. Each morning, when Jen wakes, she is further back in the past, first weeks, then years, before the murder. And Jen realizes that somewhere in the past lies the trigger for Todd’s terrible crime…and it is her mission to find it, and prevent it from taking place.
My Review:
Wrong place wrong time
How does the mind of Gillian McAlister work to write this. Her notes of timelines must have been phenomenal.
So invested in Listening to this I forgot the real reason Jen ended up in the time loop, but the ending I never saw coming, though I did wonder how this was going to conclude and how Jen was going to solve a murder that didn’t happen but she witnessed with her own eyes.
That’s how warped this story is but also how bloody brilliant it is.
Changing timelines without damaging time, that’s mind blowing to read and so very clever of Gillian McAlister. People who are not who they seem leading us on journey we thought we understood, but clearly didn’t.
The funny parts, spontaneous decorating had me laughing out loud.
The final twist, Jen’s son Todd and his girlfriend, the girlfriend Jen thought she knew!
