Time travel isn't my normal fare, but I liked the cover so I took a chance.

Sam Reilly drew me into the story, starting with the mystery of the flash drive and his reassignment to a top secret project. Things get really convoluted after that. I'm glad I stayed with it, when the story's history started to drift from what I thought I knew.

The characters worked for me. The setting did, too, especially as Sam and his friends started jumping around in history. Definite back to the future vibes in a good way.

As a writer my biggest challenge with this story was in meeting it where it was, instead of where I thought it should be. Don't get me wrong. It's pretty darn good, but I had trouble with the omniscient POV. John shifted from a distant third to omniscient quite often - which I found a bit jarring - but realizing what he was doing and applying my Jack Webb filter smoothed the story out for me. I channeled my inner Dragnet-Voiceover voice to handle the exposition and just hung on for the ride.

And what a ride it was.

Recommended.