Connor was a struggling, underpaid high school math teacher stuck with alimony payments. An accident, one night, sends him to the hospital, where he wakes up as his teenage self from 1987. Whoa!
The narrative summarizes Connor’s old life in a rural community. We get info on the town and its people. Some of it was not that interesting and it took too much time. It was rather slow with some choppy sentences.
About 14% in, Connor mentions Lorena, but we still don’t know what the connection is. Lorena was a teacher that he met in 1993. There was an instant attraction and they dated. Just before their wedding, Lorena, along with Connor’s best friend, was murdered by a white cop.
Back to 1987—6 years before he was to meet Lorena—Connor goes in search for Lorena beforehand. When he finally finds her, the two feel like they already know each other. Was this his chance to change the course of coming events? Could he catch his mother’s breast cancer? Could he stop his dad from drinking? Could he stop the boy that would later kill his girlfriend and best friend?
I thought this had an interesting premise, but, as mentioned, the whole thing’s quite slow. A lot of narrative is wasted on scenery and history. It gets way too scientific and philosophical once Connor meets up with the professor. From then on, it tapers off and it’s not as interesting as it started off.
This was a decent time-travel story, but I expected more.
Rating: 3 stars
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