Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 4/3/2014 + 1223 more book reviews

I always enjoy time travel novels and this one was no exception although I thought that in some places this one got a little bit carried away. It was sometimes hard to follow all the travels through time to retrieve one of the travel devices, etc. Overall though, I did like the story which starts out at the funeral of one of the main characters, Shel, who then comes back using time travel. The story then tells how Shel came into possession of three time travel devices invented by his father and how Shel and his friend Dave end up traveling through time to try to locate his missing dad. I really enjoyed several of their adventures including trips to the library at Alexandria and their efforts to retrieve some of the lost plays of Sophocles. There were a few things that bothered me about the novel including no kind of explanation of how the time travel devices were supposed to work. Also, there seemed to be a lot of travel to times and locations that were comparatively minor in world history but no travel to see how the pyramids were built or to see first-hand the reported miracles of Christ. Anyway, overall I would still recommend this to readers of time-travel fiction.

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