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The realisation of what was happening dawned on me not too early to ruin the story but not too late that I felt dumb for not seeing it coming.
Speaking honestly, I was completely bored and suddenly I was skimming, which is something that I am against. Each day Jen is presented with a series of new facts, new events, new people as she begins to learn more about her son, her husband and her own life. Flow is an apt word as it is a go with the flow read and it does feel a bit weird to start with and you’re full of questions but somehow you just accept it conceptually and it comes to feel ‘natural’.Jen begins to move back through time to discover what events led her son to become a killer, and hopefully stop it from happening in the future. Confused, panicked and still in shock, Jen sets herself the task of discovering the root cause of what went wrong for her son. I really enjoyed the Groundhog Day style of storytelling, although I think the middle began to drag a bit, and we go waaaaay back to the beginning of "the story" to finally figure out the "secrets" and "mysteries" of why this family is at the heart of a terrible crime where a mother has no warning as to why her beloved son would stab a seemingly strange man. Following the clues all the way to the beginning, Jen hopes to figure out the puzzle and change her son’s future. After all, when she wakes up again, everything she does, and every conversation she had the day before is erased.
I swapped books for awhile as I needed a mental break and around 60% the urge to skim a little was happening. This makes sense, given how focused Jen is on her own disaster, but the sharp focus on the main characters can make things seem a little fuzzy at the edges.I am happy that I picked up this book to read, which has multiple themes embedded in it and multiple genre crossovers.
I actually listened to the audiobook on holiday and I couldn't wait to get back to it each time I had to stop it. Devastated, she and her husband wait for answers at the police station after he is taken into custody. Each day she relives in the past she sees through new eyes, catches new things, chases new leads, and learns more and more about her life and family and what led up to that fateful day. WRONG PLACE, WRONG TIME is the spellbinding story of a mother going back in time to try to prevent her son from committing a murder.Wrong Place Wrong Time runs the whole gamut of emotions with perfectly paced twists and turns that leave you utterly spent and completely satisfied. Yes, I will admit the beginning was a slow grind full of repetitiveness in the vein of Groundhog Day, but, once the basics were in place (I didn’t get to this point the first time around), the twists and turns were truly mind-blowing. The concept of the novel is fantastic and very different from her previous novels, yet it’s also full of many clever twists and turns you don’t see coming which is one of her trademarks. Because Jen is going back every single day, it’s hard to see the actual significance of her actions.
Instead, it was well-crafted and finely tuned, weaving together an addictive tale about motherhood, second chances, and protecting those we love.In comparison to these books (a fair comparison because the same marketing attention was doled out), this one stands head and shoulders above. Jen is at times driven, euphoric, lost, and even desperate, as she repeats her life from different vantage points, each one with strong emotions attached.
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