The Rules of Time Travel: A cosy romcom about second chances and great coffee by L.A. BirchonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Rey goes back in time to prevent a disaster with the use of a brass device similar in size to a pocket watch. She doesn't really know much about time travel and has formulated a set of rules for herself, which are never shared with the reader.
Rey turns back time to a few weeks before a coffee shop called the Daily Grind will be destroyed in a fire which leaves one unidentified body in its wake. Rey applies for a job in the café, which is owned by Dom, a former alcoholic. Kate, a widow with one child, makes the cakes that Dom sells in the café, and Jack is the other barista. Rey knows Dom and Kate from her life in the future, but she worries that she has no recollection of Jack - could his be the body they find in the remains of the fire?
Kate's partner Stuart is wealthy and resents her 'little business', he is also jealous of the relationship she has with Dom, and he loathes her daughter Freya.
Rey has to be careful as 'The Fisherman' is on the look out for rogue time travellers, can anything she does in the past affect the future and avert the disaster?
This is hard to review. There is so much unexplained, maybe its the circularity of time travel? Jack has some great thoughts on what is a time travel book/film versus multiverse and the section titles reference some classics of the genres.
Also, if the author reads this there are some typos eg Marlboro cigarettes are not spelt Marlborough.
Overall though, I enjoyed this .
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