Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Reese's Book Club Pick

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There wasn’t enough build up as to why Todd stabbed Joseph. If Todd bought a knife as a form of protection, to me that indicates that he must’ve felt on guard and unsafe around him and yet just 2 days before he was at Joseph/Ezra’s house. And when his mum found him there he just looked embarrassed and annoyed rather than worried considering the company… The fact that Jen sought out someone studying time traveling, as if there could be a plausible and scientific explanation.

That night you fall asleep in despair. But when you wake . . . it is yesterday. The day before the murder. One half star simply because I really like Gillian McAllister usually AND SHE HAS TWO GOLDEN RETRIEVERS. One cannot give less than 2.5 stars to an author with 2 golden retrievers. There are plenty of surprises in this story and once I got into the swing of what was occurring (and once Jen accepted that it was taking place and stopped trying to figure out the how/why/trying to tell everyone around her what was happening) I was able to put on my puzzle solving hat and go with the flow of what Jen was trying to discover. Jen is watching out the picture window waiting for her son, Todd, to come home. She sees him walking toward the house when a man suddenly appears out of the shadows and her son pulls a knife and kills him. Gillian McAllister tells us the story of the relationship between a mother and son through this novel.loved* Stephen Kings 11/22/63; swooning over the love story …. and there have been a few other time travel books I liked very much — Ryan’s instant love of a few days and willingness to throw everything away for Jen was a bit too unbelievable. 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. Well because they were in the past!!!!

Banter can hide the worst sins. Some people laugh to hide their shame, they laugh instead of saying I feel embarrassed and small." There were so many twists and turns in here, it made for a most exciting time. I don't want to talk them up though, since whether or not you'll be surprised will depend on what you've seen before. As for me, I guessed a few things beforehand, but there were still plenty that surprised me and kept me on my toes. Was this story perfect? No, there are some parts that didn't really make sense and by the end of the story I believed that Jen had lived the most clueless life possible, yet it was still incredibly fast paced and captivating. There are some fantastic twists revealed at deliberate intervals, and like I said above, although I figured many of them out ahead of time, this was still an entertaining and clever story. The reason why Ryan remained as Kelly. I understand it was because Joseph would one day get out and didn’t want him to find out that he was undercover. But then it seemed like a silly idea because he has had to spend his whole life in hiding so that the police don’t know and to be prepared for the day Joseph is free. I didn’t really believe this line of reasoning perhaps because there wasn’t enough build up around Joseph and how dangerous this guy was, I’m told not shown. I'm still conflicted on whether or not the audiobook was the way to go with this one. 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. Take from that what you will. 🤷🏻‍♀️Pros: unique premise, thoughtfully executed and interesting plot, calm cool and collected ending, excellent use of a literary device, spittin some facts on motherhood and marriage 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. Jen, watching from a window, witnesses her 17-year-old son, murder a man in front of her home. What could have made her sweet son murder a man? Now that he is in custody, what will become of him? It’s perfection, every word, every moment. A masterpiece . . . One of the best books I’ve ever read.” —Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author The story begins with Jen witnessing her son kill another boy and as the police arrive, Jen’s life begins to crumble. Her son is charged with murder, in possession of the knife and the victims blood on his hands and clothes.

This is one of those books that is between a drama/fiction and a mystery thriller. There were too many dull and everyday moments, I skimmed quite a lot. That's where Jen stands. She's caught in that loop transcending time to events in the past that may eventually shine a light on that murder that night at the hands of her son. Whoa! McAllister presents a brilliantly crafted novel in which we're actively engaged in shifting through the clues and the circumstances. Individuals will appear in a different light and their identities will become clearer. The puzzle pieces will begin to fit. Oh, and the twists! Beginning about a third of the way in, each results in just enough of a shift to the storyline that I could no longer guess what was to come (and I definitely didn’t anticipate any of them). With the clues surreptitiously laced into the story, each reveal shattered my preconceived ideas and ratcheted up well-organized tension. Jen wakes up the next morning, after a night at the police station, ready to fight, to hire lawyers, to try to understand how she had “come to raise a murderer. Teenage rage. Knife crime. Gangs. Antifa. Which is it? Which hand have they been dealt?” She is, she thinks, “an excellent rescuer, has spent all of her life doing just that, and now it’s time to help her son”. But, as she slowly comes to realise, the impossible has happened. It is 28 October and Todd has yet to kill anyone. Loved that this book is a thriller focused on figuring out why a murder happens rather than who has done itOne sentence review: A unique take on a domestic thriller that falls short due to an inane number of commas and questionable other writing style choices The premise is that a mother/lawyer witnesses her 18-year-old son murder a man in the front of their home. This is day zero, or more accurately, night zero. As one can imagine, Jen, the mother, is beside herself. Her son is arrested right in front of her for murdering a man who appears to be in his 40’s. Her son, Todd, is taken into police custody. It might be scary to read that they even convincingly pass the polygraph test without getting caught. 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. 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.

And, right then, it had felt, suddenly, like spring, even though it began to rain again only minutes later.If you're wondering how this got through editing, you and me both. I figured the big twist out just a bit early, but was surprised by other twisty turns the journey took me on! I may be a bit of an outlier, and while I enjoyed it, it wasn't a stand out for me. If you love a book that pulls you away from your normal thought processes then you will adore this. My first by this author and it is quite a unique, genre and mind bending read. I was invested in the protagonist, Jen, I felt her struggle, her heartache and her motivation. A complex puzzle with many random pieces that ultimately come in place.Both phases of parenthood – the newborn years and the almost-adult ones – are bookended by sleep deprivation, though for different reasons."