“Wrong Place Wrong Time” by Gillian McAllister
Published: May 12, 2022 by HarperCollins Publishers
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Psychological Fiction, Time Travel Fiction
“Wrong Place Wrong Time” really makes you think about what details you miss in your everyday life that may be a clue to events that happen in the future.
In “Wrong Place Wrong Time” author Gillian McAllister explores time travel. What if a mother could change her child’s fate by traveling back in time to change the thing that caused it? Jen and her husband Kelly witnesses their son, Todd, murder someone, a stranger, or so she thinks. The next day Jen, a lawyer, wakes up to the thought that she has to figure out a way to get her son out of jail when she realizes it isn’t the next day at all it is the day before the murder! She has no idea how, but maybe she can stop the murder from happening by confiscating the knife Todd used, but that couldn’t have been it because the next day she woke up even further before the crime. She needs to keep traveling back to the point when all of this started so she can save her family, but how far back will she have to go?
Every time she wakes up on a new day she learns something important to help fill in the blanks. She uncovers more secrets that help her figure out why her teenage son murders a grown man in their driveway. She relives moments with her father and her son as a toddler. She gets to fall in love with her husband all over again and all to stop her son from going to prison for the rest of his life.
What consequences will her actions in the past have on the present? Find out for yourself in “Wrong Place Wrong Time” by Gillian McAllister. I got truly sucked into this story. I couldn’t wait to find out what date she would wake up in next. I loved how Ryan’s story is mixed in the middle of Jen’s time traveling. I enjoyed how Jen took a moment to appreciate the life she had with each time jump, because honestly who wouldn’t do that. Who wouldn’t want to spend a little time with your toddler again or visit your father before he passed away or even just admire our 20 something body that we didn’t appreciate the first time around? These are little moments that don’t add to the reason for the time travel, but they are real and help us connect to Jen.
I really enjoyed this book. I tend to gravitate toward books that are rated by others at a 4 or higher. This one has a Goodreads rating of 4.12/5 I have to rate it higher than that at a 4.75/5. I read through some of the 3/5 or 3.5/5 reviews just now and many of them have an issue with the time travel in general. Some argue that any changes made at any point in the timeline would have some effect on the present, the butterfly effect. I appreciate that McAllister had the foresight to provide an explanation.
Hope you enjoy “Wrong Place Wrong Time” by Gillian McAllister as much as I did.
