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Atlantic Island Trilogy #2.5
Atlantic Island: The Traveler
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Leave the past alone.
Dan knows he shouldn't use his time travel ability to interfere. He knows he should just watch from a distance.
Love has a way of changing everything.
The potential for a happy life twenty years in his past will lead Dan to break his rule and set in motion events that could threaten everything he's ever known.
Note: This story takes place in between Rising Tide and Omega Protocol of the Atlantic Island Trilogy.
Leave the past alone.
Dan knows he shouldn't use his time travel ability to interfere. He knows he should just watch from a distance.
Love has a way of changing everything.
The potential for a happy life twenty years in his past will lead Dan to break his rule and set in motion events that could threaten everything he's ever known.
Note: This story takes place in between Rising Tide and Omega Protocol of the Atlantic Island Trilogy.
322 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 4, 2014
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About the author
Fredric Shernoff
36 books14 followersFredric Shernoff is the author of the Amazon Top 100 "Atlantic Island" series. His newest addition to the Atlantic Island Universe, "The Magic Book" (Atlantic Island: Divided Book 1) is available now!
Fredric lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Twitter: @fredricshernoff
Email: fredricshernoff@gmail.com
Website: www.fredricshernoff.com
Fredric lives in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Twitter: @fredricshernoff
Email: fredricshernoff@gmail.com
Website: www.fredricshernoff.com
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November 3, 2017
A fairly simple time traveling book that deals with missed opportunities. Unfortunately the author doesn't capitalize on his ideas in any great deal. Plus the main character can't decide if his conflicted marriage, where they fight a lot of time, is better than a new found love from 20 year ago. Near the end the book it gets a bit gruesome and violent. A lot is left unresolved with his mysterious helper.
August 9, 2015
Written with the first person point of view, the story follows Daniel Wells as he discovers that he has the ability to move backwards in time. At first it is accidental, and since he can only take with him what he concentrates on, at first he ends up naked on arrival, but eventually he learns how to exercise some sort of control. What happens then is he goes back to observe his youth, and then he cannot resist "helping" himself as a youngster. By doing so, he changes time lines, and there are consequences, none of them being very desirable. Then he goes back to fix them, but only gets himself into a worse tangle.
The premise is somewhat loopy, but that is fair enough for a story. It is well written on the whole, and is easy to read. By the end, the various journeys back start to get a bit complicated, and the ending, where all this gets unraveled, is a bit forced, but overall, the story is entertaining. I would have preferred it if more had been made of the concept, but for light reading, this story reads well and the pages turn. Good light entertainment.
The premise is somewhat loopy, but that is fair enough for a story. It is well written on the whole, and is easy to read. By the end, the various journeys back start to get a bit complicated, and the ending, where all this gets unraveled, is a bit forced, but overall, the story is entertaining. I would have preferred it if more had been made of the concept, but for light reading, this story reads well and the pages turn. Good light entertainment.
October 30, 2017
A good, quick time travel novel in the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Replay by Ken Grimwood (really good). Daniel wakes one morning to find he can slip in and out of the past, so he decides to take a break from his fractured marriage and go back to middle school and change one tiny thing..... yeah, not so much. When he gets back to the "present" things are WAY different and he has to go back again to "unfix" what he "fixed" and things get really confusing quickly. I liked the take on this - normal guy with issues, creates more issues trying to do the right thing and then realizes things were actually pretty much perfect the way they were all along. I think this was a BookBub special, so well worth the $1.99!!!!
September 4, 2015
I found this book delightful and thought provoking. The effects of time travel on future generations are very well thought out. It's one of those books that you constantly want to yell "Don't do it!" in the main character's ear. Good characters and settings as well.
November 26, 2024
3.5 Stars
May 14, 2018
Sometimes I come across a book I really have trouble putting down: The Traveler is one of them. It's an exceptional look at what would happen if you could go back in time and change just one thing: what else would it change? A very "butterfly effect" story. Loved it!
March 24, 2018
More of a "short story" than a novel, I really enjoyed it - it didn't drag at all since the story had to be complete in 200 pages. Half the trick of time travel is figuring it all out, and the author does a great job of that, including the parts that he can't figure out. While a bit slow in the beginning (not really a fan of "bad relationships" being played out in books or TV), but it quickly moves into the plot and by the end it was zooming to the finale, that I didn't even notice that the relationship part actually played into the story as a whole. Even if you had an issue with something, it was such a quick read that if you are interested in the time travel genre at all there is no reason you shouldn't read this one.
February 9, 2017
I love time travel books, and enjoyed this more than many I've read recently. There were some moments I got bored, and some I wanted to choke the lead character, but overall it was a fun and interesting read. Daniel is a likable character, even if sometimes frustrating because of some of the decisions he makes. Story line(s) got confusing in places with all the back and forth, but you can't really avoid that in a time travel book, can you? Good, but vague, explanations of his abilities helped wrap up the story. I recommend to anyone who likes time travel books.
October 20, 2017
Nice version of the time travel story.
When time traveling even if you don't kill your grandfather you can still mess things up. Shernoff tells a small story well about one life affected by time travel.
When time traveling even if you don't kill your grandfather you can still mess things up. Shernoff tells a small story well about one life affected by time travel.
March 8, 2017
Good Solid Story
I liked it. Some of it was kinda predictable but I found myself not caring. Well written and fast paced.
I liked it. Some of it was kinda predictable but I found myself not caring. Well written and fast paced.
June 18, 2017
Really fun read
☺ fun book beginning to end. Unique spin on time travel with a character you both love and hate. 🙏
☺ fun book beginning to end. Unique spin on time travel with a character you both love and hate. 🙏
February 17, 2018
Really keeps you guessing
Very good read keeps you guessing and very good ending. If you ever wanted to go back and change something this books is for you!
Very good read keeps you guessing and very good ending. If you ever wanted to go back and change something this books is for you!
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October 13, 2022I’m fascinated by good time travel books. I should make a list. Not sure how this one will turn out yet. But I did like that the author talks about the protagonist’s over-interest in the past. That he figures many people have an over fascination with.
So it was the author psychoanalyzing himself thru the character analyzing himself, and telling the reader something about himself. I thought that was daring. And it gave me hope that there might be something to this book. That was a bold move.
Shall return later to jot some more.
***
I don’t dig the nagging wife who doesn’t have time for her husband’s aches and pains. Surely the character arc will deal with this, in time.
I really don’t like that he time-a-ports without clothes. Borrowing too liberally from the time traveler’s wife. . . I mean, if I am gonna suspend disbelief for time travel without machine, we could allow for clothes. It makes for Sysco annoying mechanical troubles. No one wants to root for a flasher.
***
He solves the clothes problem.
It’s too chatty and detailed, too ruminative.
Perhaps this is his point.
I’m half way and unhappy with it.
May stop.
There is no great meaningful reason for the travel.
Just rumination.
And having revisited my own past in my mind, I actually learned something.
But in this book, the author goes for maudlin and unlikely — adult protagonist goes back in memory, determined to avoid himself, but instead killing—killing?!—his own childhood bully. Thud traumatizing his younger self. And ruining his younger self’s life.
This? This is the problem the author gave himself to solve?
Ok.
But I’m not happy with the story.
So it was the author psychoanalyzing himself thru the character analyzing himself, and telling the reader something about himself. I thought that was daring. And it gave me hope that there might be something to this book. That was a bold move.
Shall return later to jot some more.
***
I don’t dig the nagging wife who doesn’t have time for her husband’s aches and pains. Surely the character arc will deal with this, in time.
I really don’t like that he time-a-ports without clothes. Borrowing too liberally from the time traveler’s wife. . . I mean, if I am gonna suspend disbelief for time travel without machine, we could allow for clothes. It makes for Sysco annoying mechanical troubles. No one wants to root for a flasher.
***
He solves the clothes problem.
It’s too chatty and detailed, too ruminative.
Perhaps this is his point.
I’m half way and unhappy with it.
May stop.
There is no great meaningful reason for the travel.
Just rumination.
And having revisited my own past in my mind, I actually learned something.
But in this book, the author goes for maudlin and unlikely — adult protagonist goes back in memory, determined to avoid himself, but instead killing—killing?!—his own childhood bully. Thud traumatizing his younger self. And ruining his younger self’s life.
This? This is the problem the author gave himself to solve?
Ok.
But I’m not happy with the story.
May 26, 2018
Like a lot of people, I find time travel to be a fascinating concept, and I've read and seen plenty of material about it.
This is one of the better ones. It's about a guy who figures out he can travel to the past. At first, he wants to "just look", but then he gets an idea into his head that if he just made this minor tweak, or that one, he can change his life for the better.
On some level, it's quite predictable, because you just know that the things he tries to change are going to have disastrous consequences, and you might have a decent idea of what those consequences will be. But then it's really satisfying to read the specifics of all those terrible things and realise you were right. Or sometimes, it's even worse than you anticipated!
This story is well thought out, but it's not too scientific, so if you're not a fan of hard sci-fi (I'm not), don't worry: you won't get bogged down in technical details. Just accept that he can travel through time because that's the way it is.
To me, that was one of the best parts. The story doesn't get bogged down by trying to explain how things work from a technical standpoint. It just is, and the science gets out of the way so you can sit back and enjoy the story.
This is one of the better ones. It's about a guy who figures out he can travel to the past. At first, he wants to "just look", but then he gets an idea into his head that if he just made this minor tweak, or that one, he can change his life for the better.
On some level, it's quite predictable, because you just know that the things he tries to change are going to have disastrous consequences, and you might have a decent idea of what those consequences will be. But then it's really satisfying to read the specifics of all those terrible things and realise you were right. Or sometimes, it's even worse than you anticipated!
This story is well thought out, but it's not too scientific, so if you're not a fan of hard sci-fi (I'm not), don't worry: you won't get bogged down in technical details. Just accept that he can travel through time because that's the way it is.
To me, that was one of the best parts. The story doesn't get bogged down by trying to explain how things work from a technical standpoint. It just is, and the science gets out of the way so you can sit back and enjoy the story.
June 16, 2023
Someone else compared this book to The ‘86 Fix by Keith A. Pearson, and maybe halfway through, that thought flickered through my head as well. But in the end, no, not even close.
Avoiding spoilers, but when the story reaches a critical point there’s suddenly a deus ex machina inserted that quickly brings it to a convenient resolution, but in a way that made me wonder why I’d bothered at all.
Worse, this book is linked somehow to a whole time travel trilogy, but one that apparently revolves around other characters, terrors cells, “strange powers, an orb, hurricanes and wars” (as one reviewer described it).
Sorry, not for me. I enjoy time travel stories with more human dimensions. That’s where this one seemed to be heading, but that’s not at all how it wrapped up. In the end, it was a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Avoiding spoilers, but when the story reaches a critical point there’s suddenly a deus ex machina inserted that quickly brings it to a convenient resolution, but in a way that made me wonder why I’d bothered at all.
Worse, this book is linked somehow to a whole time travel trilogy, but one that apparently revolves around other characters, terrors cells, “strange powers, an orb, hurricanes and wars” (as one reviewer described it).
Sorry, not for me. I enjoy time travel stories with more human dimensions. That’s where this one seemed to be heading, but that’s not at all how it wrapped up. In the end, it was a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
July 21, 2019
While looking for something ‘fun’ I discovered “The Traveler” available in audio via my local library and was in the mood for some light Sci-Fi. This is what I got. Not “Time Traveler’s Wife”, not at all, but still entertaining. While listening to this I thought of the scene in “The Terminator” where the machine arrives naked. Then, thought of Time Traveler’s Husband (not Wife). And The Time Machine. The ending was more interesting and at times I thought I’d get a headache thinking about alternate universe and doppelgangers etc. I liked how the author brought it all together and he did have a message about not messing with the past/future. I’d recommend it for fans of time travel and light entertainment. Good audio book.
August 30, 2020
Can you go back in time and change the past? Should you?
32-year-old Dan Wells, a man beset by marital difficulties and stuck in a thankless job, finds himself often ruminating on that very question. Especially after coming to realize he's been gifted the ability to travel into his past. What follows is a page-turning, thought-provoking adventure through several timelines, none of which seem to be the one Dan left from. Every time he tries to correct aa mistake, he discovers the repercussions are more than he might have ever imagined. Can dan finally set things right and get back home?
Fredric Shernoff crafted a new and unique take on the time travel genre. The writing is excellent, the story superb and by the end we come to know the characters as well (and probably better) than we know most of the folks we know in real life. My only complaint is that the protagonist is pretty maudlin. Once I got to the end, I understood the reason he's portrayed that way. It's just too bad there isn't a way to clue the reader in near the beginning, as it nearly had me put down the book.
32-year-old Dan Wells, a man beset by marital difficulties and stuck in a thankless job, finds himself often ruminating on that very question. Especially after coming to realize he's been gifted the ability to travel into his past. What follows is a page-turning, thought-provoking adventure through several timelines, none of which seem to be the one Dan left from. Every time he tries to correct aa mistake, he discovers the repercussions are more than he might have ever imagined. Can dan finally set things right and get back home?
Fredric Shernoff crafted a new and unique take on the time travel genre. The writing is excellent, the story superb and by the end we come to know the characters as well (and probably better) than we know most of the folks we know in real life. My only complaint is that the protagonist is pretty maudlin. Once I got to the end, I understood the reason he's portrayed that way. It's just too bad there isn't a way to clue the reader in near the beginning, as it nearly had me put down the book.
June 28, 2020
An interesting story of time travel. It's a little frustrating, since the traveler keeps making stupid decisions when he travels to the past, and affect the current timeline until nearly everything is changed. Not up to the standards of Poul Anderson, but an okay read. A bit of a dying ending, though - apparently the protagonist will make an appearance in another book in the series of which this is apparently a part, so meant to be a cliffhanger? I enjoyed it, but not enough to buy the rest of the books in the series.
June 28, 2024
Very interesting story that can make you think about your own life choices.
I liked how the protagonist worked to learn how to control many elements of his life (trying to avoid spoilers).
At 2/3 of the book, I felt some redundancy: a few readers would have put it down at that part of the story, but if you continue, you don't regret it. I was satisfied with the ending.
Nice work! I give 3 stars because of the part where I almost put it back on the shelf but I see that most of the readers liked it more than me, so give it a try!
I liked how the protagonist worked to learn how to control many elements of his life (trying to avoid spoilers).
At 2/3 of the book, I felt some redundancy: a few readers would have put it down at that part of the story, but if you continue, you don't regret it. I was satisfied with the ending.
Nice work! I give 3 stars because of the part where I almost put it back on the shelf but I see that most of the readers liked it more than me, so give it a try!
May 5, 2017
Interesting Time Travel Story
I don't read time travel very often because it all tends to be the same........not this one. This one engages the reader until the end. The character.....characters of Daniel Wells is very well written...each one of them. The time sequences, eras etc, all flow together perfectly.
I don't read time travel very often because it all tends to be the same........not this one. This one engages the reader until the end. The character.....characters of Daniel Wells is very well written...each one of them. The time sequences, eras etc, all flow together perfectly.
December 20, 2017
The book started out a light read with potential for something interesting. Along the way, it became tedious, confusing, and a little too weird. Character development was flat, and the stranger the story got, the less bonded I felt with the main character. The ending was unexciting. It was okay as a break from my usual psychological thriller, but not enough plot for me.
February 26, 2025
This is a very interesting take on the Time Travel genre and was an interesting read. It was quite clear that the author had a lot of fun playing in the past and reminiscing. The ending is strange, however, almost like someone said "Ok, time to wrap this up." More time could have been spent on the ending or a second book would have been helpful.
June 26, 2020
I liked it. It is well thought out. I wasn’t crazy about the first person POV which made the first half slow but it got better. The author needs a good editor one who knows the difference between bare and bear as in “I couldn’t bear the thought” not bare.
February 7, 2017
Interesting concept
I want to leave a review but I find it intensely irritating that the gods of kindle DEMAND I do it in twenty words! Who the hell do they think they are?
I want to leave a review but I find it intensely irritating that the gods of kindle DEMAND I do it in twenty words! Who the hell do they think they are?
February 28, 2017
A lot of fun. Really enjoyed this story!
July 30, 2017
I downloaded this book when it was free and thoroughly enjoyed it. The story is implausible in the well trodden changing the course of history mould but entertaining nevertheless.
October 25, 2017
A simply written, fast read. No complaints.
November 4, 2017
I wanted to like it,but just couldn't.
Moved to slowly, details a lot of conversations which seemed to have nothing to do with a plot that I never good discern. I gave up.
Moved to slowly, details a lot of conversations which seemed to have nothing to do with a plot that I never good discern. I gave up.
February 23, 2018
I love time travel stories but this one got a little too wacky. it was okay
April 21, 2018
Time travel
Interesting but somewhat illogical tale of time travel. Fun read. A bit too easy wrapup. Minimal profanity. No explicit sex.
Interesting but somewhat illogical tale of time travel. Fun read. A bit too easy wrapup. Minimal profanity. No explicit sex.
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