The Emancipation of Veronica McAllister (Middle Falls Time Travel), by Shawn Inmon
Veronica McAllister lived a long but largely unfulfilled life. Her marriage was unhappy, and though she loved her two daughters, her awful husband got custody in the divorce and she ended up estranged. She dies at age eighty wondering if that was all there is...
...and wakes up in the 1950s, in her senior year in high school. Veronica has a chance to do everything differently. But if she changes things too much, will her daughters never exist? If she marries a different man, will that make her happy? Would riches? Would a career? Can she fix her relationship with her mother? Will she ever get tired of eating burgers at Artie's diner?
Veronica is a great character to spend time with. She's a very loving person who's conventional in some ways and not in others, not particularly curious about the whys of her time travel but mentally flexible and creative enough to try a number of different ways to get things right, and primarily interested in good relationships and personal fulfillment. She loves the 1950s in a lot of ways (though not the restricted rules for women) and is refreshingly non-neurotic.
Veronica's story actually made me cry at certain points - not because it's sad, because it's very moving. It's all about love and relationships - some romantic, some familial, some friendships.
I didn't get to this book for a while because we meet her briefly in Joe Hart, and she's completely uninterested in helping him out and is about to commit suicide! This turns out to be caused by extremely specific circumstances and isn't what she's like normally. And for anyone who's read others of these books, this one contains zero Universal Life Center.
I've hit a good streak with these books - this one promptly rocketed to one of my top favorites in the series. Shawn Inmon should write more from female POVs. He's very good at it.
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...and wakes up in the 1950s, in her senior year in high school. Veronica has a chance to do everything differently. But if she changes things too much, will her daughters never exist? If she marries a different man, will that make her happy? Would riches? Would a career? Can she fix her relationship with her mother? Will she ever get tired of eating burgers at Artie's diner?
Veronica is a great character to spend time with. She's a very loving person who's conventional in some ways and not in others, not particularly curious about the whys of her time travel but mentally flexible and creative enough to try a number of different ways to get things right, and primarily interested in good relationships and personal fulfillment. She loves the 1950s in a lot of ways (though not the restricted rules for women) and is refreshingly non-neurotic.
Veronica's story actually made me cry at certain points - not because it's sad, because it's very moving. It's all about love and relationships - some romantic, some familial, some friendships.
I didn't get to this book for a while because we meet her briefly in Joe Hart, and she's completely uninterested in helping him out and is about to commit suicide! This turns out to be caused by extremely specific circumstances and isn't what she's like normally. And for anyone who's read others of these books, this one contains zero Universal Life Center.
I've hit a good streak with these books - this one promptly rocketed to one of my top favorites in the series. Shawn Inmon should write more from female POVs. He's very good at it.
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