Literary Leftover Book Review: Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

This thriller uses the trope of time travel in a unique way that was fascinating and evoked frustration for the main character. I highly recommend this excellent thriller novel.

How do you convince someone you are traveling through time? How is your time traveling affecting others? What if how you handled yourself during this time travel could make the difference between life and death? Main character, mom, Jen has to put all the pieces together as she maneuvers through time.

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

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Wrong Place Wrong Time

by

Gillian McAllister

Outline and Tone:

Time travel in a way I have never read before. I would think one of the hardest parts of time traveling would be getting people to believe it happened. Even your closest friends might not believe you. Now imagine if you time traveled every day. That is what is happening to the main character, Jen.

Jen is up waiting for her teenage son to get home just after curfew. When he finally comes around the corner, Jen’s mom-instinct tells her something is wrong. She doesn’t have time to do anything when a gun is drawn and fired. Was her son at the wrong place or was she? The next morning when she wakes up, but it isn’t tomorrow, it is yesterday and the time traveling has just begun.

This psychological thriller keeps tangling the story into one knot after another. It is impossible to predict where the plot is going. Author, Gillian McAllister, weaves the plot with amazing expertise.

This is a 5-Star book because of the time travel idea and how well the author brings everything together in the end.

The Best Quote:

“It isn’t time travel that has outsmarted her: it is parenting.”

Point of View:

The novel is primarily told through Jen’s first-person point of view.

The Author: Gillian McAllister

Gillian McAllister has had many successful books and now works as a full time writer living in Birmingham, England. To become a full time writer, McAllister endured more downs than ups, but kept pushing toward her dream and it finally paid off. Her background story is on her website. It is inspiring to read all that she went through with her health and education to finally become the author that so many love. Wrong Place Wrong Time was selected as a book for Reece’s Book Club and her works have made it to the New York Times list five times. She has a newsletter that you can sign up for on her website and she is active on Facebook as well as Instagram.

I am excited to have found this author and I look forward to reading more of her novels.

What is not to like?:

I have heard people say they don’t like the time travel trope, but trust me, this is a different way of time travel than I’ve ever read before.

The verdict:

5-Star I loved this!!

Book Statistics

Wrong Place Wrong Time

by Gillian McAllister

Rating: 5/5 Stars
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Time Travel
Setting: Liverpool, England
Pages: 416 pages
Format: Hardcover, Kindle, Paperback, Audio Book
Get Your Copy at: Amazon
Published by: William Morrow Paperbacks (May 12, 2022)
Information Sources: Amazon, Goodreads, and Author’s website

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