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Towards Yesterday (2011)

by Paul Antony Jones(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Paul Jones

review 1: I really liked this book. Could more time have been spent on editting? Yes. The grammatical errors weren't so bad that it became irritating, a pet peeve of mine all too common in self-publishing. I liked the combination of post-apocalypse by way of time travel, and I rooted for the main character the whole time. Superfluous details and disconnected plot lines were the down side. An example of this second point would be all the emphasis given to a religious leader that (spoiler) ultimately never makes an appearance in the story. Having said that, it was an entertaining read and a really interesting concept. I would definitely read more by this author.
review 2: Jones writes one of the most original apocalypses that I've ever read. The kind of devastation that wo... moreuld be wrought by everyone slamming back into their past bodies (and everyone who had been born between those two points just disappearing) would be immense. Nearly unimaginable, frankly, but Jones does a great job of painting a world on the verge of completely unraveling. So good a job that I wanted him to spend a little more time taking the world apart rather than putting it back together, but that could be because I'm a little twisted. The book's four main characters, a scientist-turned-writer, a math genius who is also a murder victim, a priest who committed suicide and then was brought back, and the math genius's killer, are vividly drawn; I couldn't wait for them to collide. (My favorite character, though, is a scientist who gets slammed back into the body of her prepubescent self and is about as happy over it as you can imagine.) The book does drift into a few moments of fridge logic at the end, and the four didn't have quite the screamer that I wanted them to when they finally crossed paths, but Jones's writing is so crisp and evocative that the ride is still well worth it. less

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