Wrong Place Wrong Time: A Novel
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This book is incredible. As the mother of a young boy I immediately fell into this story and I couldn’t stop reading. I didn’t want it to end while steadily turning each page.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Wow! I was glued to this story. I read it almost straight through, I had to get to the end and the answers and I wasn’t disappointed. Wonderful, intriguing twists and turns that kept me wanting more. Thoroughly enjoyable story!! Do yourself a favor and read it!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This was a real page turner! I haven’t read a book this good in a long time. Loved the characters, interesting twists along the way. If you’re trying to decide if you want to read this one, please read it! You won’t be disappointed.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Stunning. Intricately plotted, rich characters, and non-stop suspense. I read it in a day. You won’t want to put it down. Unlike most thrillers, this one has heart. It’ll make you cry, in a good way. And you won’t see the ending coming! I adored this book.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Read it. One of the best thrillers around, it’ll definitely keep surprising you. Well worth re-reading as well, to be certain you finally ‘get it’'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Excellent book just when you think you know what’s going to happen it takes a turn and throws you off. Couldn’t put the book down.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This story is so slow. I really tried to finish it and gave up. So surprised Of all the good reviews! The story dragged forever.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-2 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Not sure why this is getting 5 stars - it dragged on and on and became more and more predictable- plus had to throw negative politics into the mix just because not enough of that trashing to go around. Wish writers would keep their politics to themselves- that was the main reason turned off by this book.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Wrong Place wrong time\nDid you ever feel that you are caught repeating the same day repeatedly? Can you break out of the time loop? Humans can’t hop into a time machine or go back in time, but Jenn is about to enter a time loop that will take her back from a day and its events that she’s trying to erase but can you erase or stop a murder ? Events happen in the past, but Jenn focuses on the future and the murder. Talking to a man named Rakesh helps her and he connects her with someone else. The meeting is enlightening, and he explains what she’s experiencing but Jenn spends time and days in the past timelines hoping to get the answers to what caused the murder in the future. Taking to Todd her son and revealing what she thinks happened he swears he never would kill anyone, and he has no idea who the victim is. But further investigating leads her to finding clues and keys to a police officer named Ryan. Why does she seek him out and who exactly is he? Who is Jonas, Ezra and Nicola? Why the texts between Todd and her? What is the connection? Why did he and Clio break up and why won’t she talk to Jenn. Even re-enactments to prove to her husband that events did happen eventually disappear from his memories as it they never happened.\nEach step in the past brings unusual memories in the present as Jenn tries to connect the dots. Nicola, Jonah, Connor Todd and Ezra how do they connect? What about Todd’s change of behavior in school? Is that a red flag?\nEvery day she goes back in time but where will the answers come and in what day? Each time back gives her another perspective of the present. A simple transaction of a man and a young teen gives Jenn pause to think Todd was into something illegal and dangerous. Was she imagining things or was she placing herself in danger? This plot line is compelling in that you are handed twists and surprises in each chapter and the only person aware of all the events past and present is Jenn. Her goal to try and stop what happened in the present by finding out more about her son in the past.\nDid you ever feel that you are caught repeating the same day repeatedly? Can you break out of the time loop? Humans can’t hop into a time machine or go back in time, but Jenn is about to enter a time loop that will take her back from a day and its events that she’s trying to erase but can you erase or stop a murder ? Events happen in the past, but Jenn focuses on the future and the murder. Talking to a man named Rakesh helps her and he connects her with someone else. The meeting is enlightening, and he explains what she’s experiencing but Jenn spends time and days in the past timelines hoping to get the answers to what caused the murder in the future. Taking to Todd her son and revealing what she thinks happened he swears he never would kill anyone, and he has no idea who the victim is. But further investigating leads her to finding clues and keys to a police officer named Ryan. Why does she seek him out and who exactly is he? Who is Jonas, Ezra and Nicola? Why the texts between Todd and her? What is the connection? Why did he and Clio break up and why won’t she talk to Jenn. Even re-enactments to prove to her husband that events did happen eventually disappear from his memories as it they never happened.\nEach step in the past brings unusual memories in the present as Jenn tries to connect the dots. Nicola, Jonah, Connor Todd and Ezra how do they connect? What about Todd’s change of behavior in school? Is that a red flag?\nEvery day she goes back in time but where will the answers come and in what day? Each time back gives her another perspective of the present. A simple transaction of a man and a young teen gives Jenn pause to think Todd was into something illegal and dangerous. Was she imagining things or was she placing herself in danger?\nEach day blends into more until she goes far back in time to where she thinks the baby was stolen, the murder she thinks her son committed and the realizations she learns from Alex. Can this type of event really happen? Is she living it all alone or is this her imagination? Gina is helping to uncover the mystery of Nicola and the baby her friend Pauline dealing with her own son Nicola Williams is the key who worked for Joseph and introduces Todd to Clio. He introduces her to Ezra too but there’s more. She’s hoping to overhear a conversation and recaps that in a few days a blond kid steals a car for Ezra , Clio’s family is clearly criminal and the Chanel bag and a few more days Nicola is injured, and Todd is a killer. Added in how is Kelly involved? He knows Nicola and Joseph Jones and lies and secrets and betrayals in the past might follow in the present .\nRyan is the cop putting together the timelines and information board to learn where the drugs are and about the baby in the back of the car.\nAsking someone from her office to help gather information about Todd, Kelly and Clio she uncovers more about Joseph Jones who in her period in the past us in jail on. Class A drugs, conspiracy to rob and produce counterfeit currency and more. Joseph would be in prison but what role does Kelly play and why won’t he tell her?\nWhat are Joseph and Kelly up to, why is Todd involved and what does Clio have to do with it?\nBeing able to talk with her father and save his life and then tell him what is happening renews her strength, but Jenn is caught within herself and the world to unlock the truths she’s uncovered going back in time.\nAs the truth of Nicola’s identity becomes known and the role Kelly plays in the past to infiltrate Joseph Jones’ gang at a low level and what she hears in court in the past will it finally unravel the murder in the future?\nWhen she goes back as far as she can in time the harsh reality about Kelly and someone she thought she could trust unravels a truth you won’t believe. Just what has been tucked away for over 20 years? Just what lies will she have to keep protecting someone? When she winds up day minus 6000nine hundred and ninety-eight what the author reveals will shock you and enlighten you to the secrets and necessary lies that have prevailed and protected her and others. An ending so out of the box and a final revelation in the epilogue that will make you wonder: what’s true? What’s false what’s hysterical strength?\nCharacters that are unique, mysterious and interesting as author Gillian McAllister takes us deep inside the minds of Kelly, Jenn, Todd, Kenneth and the criminals allowing readers to understand motive, opportunity and the deceptions plus the definition of being in Wrong Place Wrong Time.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I have read and enjoyed all of Gillian McAllister’s precious books but I must say I had my doubts when I read the blurb for this one. I’m delighted to say my doubts were unfounded and this may actually be her best book yet. Initially it feels strange to be shifting back in time but you do get used to it. Jen was a really great central character and you can’t help but feel for her as she tries to sort out what she can or should change as she navigates back through time. This is just so well plotted that you can only marvel that such quality came out of two lockdowns. Great book, highly recommended.'}]