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As she travels further back in time, she is a mother looking for answers, how did this all come to happen, and more to the point, can she stop it happening? 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.
To be honest, the intricate plot and introspectiveness in the last half had me full-on Ray Charles to the comma splices. Through diligent investigating, she discovers the offices are a front for a criminal organization that steals luxury cars and distributes street drugs. Her British accent is somewhat difficult to understand, but she does a fantastic reading, so I was able to stay with it. On par with the works of Blake Crouch or Michael Crichton but with an emotional touch, this book was a overwhelmingly impressive work that, while keeping me in suspense, demonstrated the depth of a mother’s love (and which even made me cry).
This is such a layered and complex story, with lots of clues and parts that all funnel towards one cohesive explanation. At the very end, Jen’s friend Pauline goes through the same thing Jen did in the first chapter: her son is arrested, but she wakes up and he’s in the house and the date is one day before. 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. After he is arrested and taken to the police station that night, Jen goes to sleep and wakes up the next morning, which is the day before the murder. Following the clues all the way to the beginning, Jen hopes to figure out the puzzle and change her son’s future.
The story begins with Jen witnessing her son kill another boy and as the police arrive, Jen’s life begins to crumble. It left me not only shocked by the twists and turns, but questioning my own past and what I would change given the chance. It’s very well written, cleverly plotted, pitched perfectly so it just flows and in some ways it shouldn’t but it does, demonstrating real writing skill.
The problem with this book is that it takes some time for the reader to get accustomed to the author's writing style and how she crafted the book. Fortunately for Zack, his mother – a complex and intriguing protagonist – is an extremely intelligent, highly capable woman who is willing to go to great lengths to save him, making for a gripping and tense thriller. Set in 2002, they chronicle Ryan’s desire to help others, his disenchantment with routine police work, and his decision to go undercover to infiltrate the same crime ring that Jen uncovers.
All those moments, those interactions, those individuals you come across are unfolding at rocket speed on an almost predestined course. He creates a persona and chooses the name Kelly after his older brother, who committed a few petty crimes and had hung himself. This may end up on my best of the year list; it will certainly be one of my most enjoyable reading experiences. Both phases of parenthood – the newborn years and the almost-adult ones – are bookended by sleep deprivation, though for different reasons. Instead, it was well-crafted and finely tuned, weaving together an addictive tale about motherhood, second chances, and protecting those we love.
Think of second chances, time loops, a mother's unconditional love, smart moves, and unintended consequences. My high score for this is because it was such a delightful surprise, being far more cerebral than I anticipated. 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.
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