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This is a Groundhog Day thriller lived and told backwards, which is such an incredibly smart concept - but Wrong Place, Wrong Time is not just clever, it's heart-wrenching and full of emotion too. The time loop is merely a device to set up the premise and enable the story to be told in a different way. Devastated, she and her husband wait for answers at the police station after he is taken into custody. This unique story starts on Day Zero with Jen waiting for her eighteen-year-old son Todd to get home.
Todd’s victim has lost his life and so has Todd really - his promising future over before it’s begun. After all, when she wakes up again, everything she does, and every conversation she had the day before is erased. There is never a moment of doubt that the ending will satisfy, and the story evokes genuine emotion as it proceeds there. It's not often I come across a book that adds something new to the thriller/mystery genre, and this one sure does.
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. 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.
Perhaps it felt a little abrupt when we go back to ‘the day’ but if readers are wanting a different outcome, they must prefer darker books. I bet now that I know the ending, if I go back and reread it again, I would catch so many things I missed the first time around. Think of second chances, time loops, a mother's unconditional love, smart moves, and unintended consequences. I think it will take me a while to recover from this one as it left me with a seriously good book hangover. It might be scary to read that they even convincingly pass the polygraph test without getting caught.This is such a layered and complex story, with lots of clues and parts that all funnel towards one cohesive explanation. 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. All I’m going to say is that on day zero just after midnight Jen is anxiously waiting for her son Todd to come home.
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). I don't want to talk them up though, since whether or not you'll be surprised will depend on what you've seen before. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the darkness. I was so happy to read from an article written by the author that the writing of this book changed the whole outlook of the author towards motherhood which made her decide to have a baby.Well this was certainly different, and there were so many twists I don’t know if I’m on my head or my heels!
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