Review: Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister

 


Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister is not like any other Time Loop story I have read. The books opens with a woman witnessing her teenage son stabbing a man out on the street they live on, the next morning she wakes up prepared to head to the police station to see what she can do in this situation when she discovers that she has woken up in the past - the day before. The book then follows her as she goes further and further back in time, learning things about her husband and her son that she never knew. 

I liked this book quite a bit. Most time loops are characters living the same day over and over, but Jen was constantly going further back, and she never knew what day or even what year she would be waking up in. I liked the way she was able to reflect not just on her family but on herself and how much energy she had been putting into her lawyer job. This book also made me cry as one of the days that Jen wakes up on, is the day that her father passes away, so she gets to chance to say goodbye in a way that she didn't get to before which I am sure almost anyone who has lost a loved one unexpectedly has wished for. The book also had multiple twists that I wasn't expecting - I actually gasped out loud at one of them which I love when a book can make me do. 

I didn't love this book quite as much as the first Gillian McAllister book I read - Famous Last Words but I did enjoy it enough to continue checking out her backlist.

Check out my Famous Last Words review here. 

Synopsis:
Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened?

It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, and Jen anxiously waits up for her 18-year-old son, Todd, to return home. But worries about his broken curfew transform into something much more dangerous when Todd finally emerges from the darkness. As Jen watches through the window, she sees her funny, seemingly happy teenage son stab a total stranger.

She doesn’t know who the victim is, or why Todd has committed such a devastating act of violence. All she knows is that her life, and Todd’s, have been shattered.

After her son is taken into custody, Jen falls asleep in despair. But when she wakes up… it is yesterday. The murder has not happened yet—and there may be a chance to stop it. Each morning, when Jen wakes, she is further back in the past, first weeks, then years, before the murder. And Jen realizes that somewhere in the past lies the trigger for Todd’s terrible crime…and it is her mission to find it, and prevent it from taking place.

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