The Prodigal Hour A Time Travel Novel eBook Will Entrekin Exciting Press
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"The Prodigal Hour, the audacious, genre-bending novel by Will Entrekin, is a Rubik's Cube of delights. Equal parts sci-fi, thriller, coming-of-age, and love story, the novel hurtles readers along Chance Sowin's intriguingly unpredictable journey--forward, backward, and inward. A thrilling head rush of a book."
-Elizabeth Eslami, author of Bone Worship A Novel
"Chance Sowin hoped only for a new beginning."
On October 31st, 2001, six weeks after escaping the World Trade Center attacks, Chance Sowin moves back home, hoping for familiarity and security. Instead, he interrupts a burglary during which his father, Dennis, is shot and killed.
What begins as a homicide investigation escalates when the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrives. Where he hoped for solutions, Chance finds only more questions who killed his father, and why? Was his father--a physicist at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study--working on dangerous research? Why did Dennis build a secret laboratory in his basement?
Chance might not know the answers, but Cassie Lackesis, Dennis' research assistant, thinks she does. She isn't certain Dennis discovered a way to time travel, but she knows who told her Chance.
Together with Cassie, Chance will go on a journey across time and space that will challenge his every notion of ideas like "right" and "good." One young man's desire to make a difference will become, instead, a race against time as he tries to prevent forces he could never understand from not just destroying the universe but rendering it nonexistent.
When every action has a reaction, every force its counter, Chance will find that the truest measure of his character is not what he wants but what he will do when the prodigal hour returns.
"A whirlwind ride through time and space . . . a smart and wonderful tale." -Doubleshot Reviews
"I couldn’t put the book down. The last half was a whirlwind of crazy time, space continuum." - Lara's Book Club
The Prodigal Hour A Time Travel Novel eBook Will Entrekin Exciting Press
Admittedly, this was the first book I've ever read about time travel. There isn't a lot I'm going to say about this novel other than I enjoyed it and the characters in it. I don't want to give away too much. I don't believe in spoilers. Spoilers annoy me as I like to discover what has happened in a novel on my own. I also like people to discover things on their own. People need to make up their own minds about something and not read a book or watch a move because a few people don't like it. Just because they don't like something, doesn't mean you won't. This review wasn't supposed to be a soap box speech, but I've seen a lot over the years of people not liking something just because a few people don't. They haven't even attempted to find out for themselves whether they like it or not. I've always believed in making up your own mind about something.With that being said and this being the first time travel novel I read, I did find it a little on the predictable side. I have watched a few time travel movies and this was kind of like them with wanting to go back and change things in the past. Don't we all? However, there were a few surprises, don't get me wrong. It's one of the reasons I enjoyed the book. Another reason I enjoyed reading the Prodigal Hour is the fact I could connect with the characters. With some novels, this is more difficult for me.
I would recommend this book to anyone who was looking for a different kind of read.
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The Prodigal Hour A Time Travel Novel eBook Will Entrekin Exciting Press Reviews
Time travel novels usually revolve around two major themes the idea of changing major events in the past and the paradoxes that occur when one person can be in two places at once. Will Entrekin's novel manages to incorporate elements of both themes, but in a way that's fresh, and his book is both an intriguing time travel adventure and a solid romance.
The day after his father is murdered, Chance Sowin discovers that his father had discovered a method of traveling in time. Chance, accompanied by an old friend whom he soon realizes he has romantic feelings for, goes back to prevent the murder. Soon after, he winds up trying to change other major historical events, triggering some unexpected consequences. At the same time, another time traveler in a parallel timestream is investigating some disruptions in the timestream that not surprisingly turn out to be linked to Chance.
As usual if books of this sort, the storyline skips around a lot but it is surprisingly easy to follow and the book is logically constructed, if you accept the main premise. In addition, Chance, his girlfriend and the other time traveler are all complex, likable characters. There's a good bit of action here and some surprising plot twists. Although the events Chance and the others get involved with have been used before in similar books of this genre, Entrekin manages to make his narrative seem fresh at all time. This novel is a very entertaining read.
This is a multi-plane yarn. One focuses on the paradoxes of time travel. Another on alternate universes - is one real and another alternate or are both/all equally real? A third is two personal tales, that of Leonard and Jennifer from one universe and Chase and Cassie from another. While Chase bumbles onward, stumbling through time, the author tells us, the reader, what many of Chase's actions would result in ... good, bad, and indifferent.
Leonard is aware of time. He is a regular traveler and has been thoroughly schooled in the rules. But an alternate universe is a different matter and even with help from a scientific foundation he ends up bumbling.
Both Chase and Leonard are protagonists - and time/space simply follows the laws of physics in responding to them.
Other reviewers have likened the book to various other works because of similar points of departure - which is like saying that every WWII novel is alike or every coming-of-age story is the same.....they're not! And this book holds its own against any of the others! It is a good, albeit complex read!
The prodigal Hour, a Time Travel Novel by Will Entrekin, was a book I knew nothing abut but picked up for a free giveaway on my kindle. I love the delight of finding myself drawn into a story in a different style, about different subjects than I had been reading of awhile, and this book was a delight. The science used in the time travel is well explained and consistent and believable. And although it is a novel, and not a movie, I keep catching myself thinking, "I loved the special effects." After thinking about it, I realize that his description of what happens when time seems to pause everyone else, as the people in the effect are speeded up, is very much vivid and detailed and allowed me to see it clearly. Those descriptions put me in mind of the old movie, "Clockstoppers" where the effects included being able to move a person out of the spray of water as the drops hung in mid air, seemingly suspended by their relative slowness.
Not only were his descriptions see-able, but his people were know-able. The way they thought and reacted is how many of us would hope to react with that opportunity. Chance and Cassie were my favorites as people but all along, every time that he left Leonard's story, I was frustrated because I wanted more.
The places they choose to go, (Spoiler Alert) to save a Dad, or see if Jesus was real, or to the trade Towers on Sept 10, or to kill Hitler, may seem a bit predictable and yet what happens with each choice is not only unique, and heart wrenching, it is something told in a voice that often made me stop and highlight and underline passages that felt so well written, and so beautiful and touching that I never wanted to forget them.
I hate having to choose a number and a star. This book is so close to a five star book, I love it, will remember it, may even save it and read it again. It isn't as smooth or perfectly written as some but it is so sincere and so compelling. It doesn't quite sit on the rarefied shelf with my all time favorites, and I wouldn't think of it first thing when someone says to tell them my favorite book, but that may be more a matter of it not really being in my favorite genre, rather than anything to do with its lack of anything specific. So Yeah, it's either a 4 or a 5 and either way, I'd recommend it as a purchase for anyone who wants both entertainment and a reason to think.
Admittedly, this was the first book I've ever read about time travel. There isn't a lot I'm going to say about this novel other than I enjoyed it and the characters in it. I don't want to give away too much. I don't believe in spoilers. Spoilers annoy me as I like to discover what has happened in a novel on my own. I also like people to discover things on their own. People need to make up their own minds about something and not read a book or watch a move because a few people don't like it. Just because they don't like something, doesn't mean you won't. This review wasn't supposed to be a soap box speech, but I've seen a lot over the years of people not liking something just because a few people don't. They haven't even attempted to find out for themselves whether they like it or not. I've always believed in making up your own mind about something.
With that being said and this being the first time travel novel I read, I did find it a little on the predictable side. I have watched a few time travel movies and this was kind of like them with wanting to go back and change things in the past. Don't we all? However, there were a few surprises, don't get me wrong. It's one of the reasons I enjoyed the book. Another reason I enjoyed reading the Prodigal Hour is the fact I could connect with the characters. With some novels, this is more difficult for me.
I would recommend this book to anyone who was looking for a different kind of read.
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