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Making Corrections: A Time Travel Novel
Does Time Heal All Wounds? Every day of widowhood is a struggle for Carrie Weathers. She continues the work her husband began, reporting on strange phenomena. When she discovers the unexpected in a person from their past, she dares to hope that the strange man claiming to be a time traveler can end her grief.
- GenresTime Travel
176 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 2, 2020
About the author
K.F. Whatley
7 books6 followersK. F. Whatley's professional writing experience spans 20+ years. Starting with published technical books, then moving into news reporting, she dove into fiction in 2006. After publishing fiction and poetry in local literary journals for years, she made the leap to Kindle publishing in 2017, and published her first novel in 2018.
Wife, helpmate, mother, stepmother, and grandmother, she fills her time with family, writing, and trying not to trip over cats. She is based in Eastern North Carolina, with ocean in one direction and foothills in the other.
Wife, helpmate, mother, stepmother, and grandmother, she fills her time with family, writing, and trying not to trip over cats. She is based in Eastern North Carolina, with ocean in one direction and foothills in the other.
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March 29, 2022
I received this kindle edition free as a goodreads giveaway winner! That is a thrill!
First of all, I want to make it clear that I LOVE books about time travel! This book has a premise I have never seen before: An individual who can time-travel, and who has created rules to follow so that he won't cause too many perturbations of other people's lives. He wants to do good in the world, and he will not undertake making changes in the past -- the "corrections" of the title -- in order to make anyone wealthy, or for revenge or political power. I love the premise, and the book gets more stars because of it.
The other main person in the book is the grieving widow, Carrie, who, with her husband, writes articles for what sounds like a small, online newspaper. The articles are the stuff of small towns, highlighting businesses, events, and the occasional oddballs in town. She misses her husband, Mig (full name: Miguel Weathers), terribly, and wants the time traveler to make a small correction: to get her husband to a doctor sooner, so he won't die of (presumably treatable) cancer.
What got to me, and not in a good way, is the flatness of the writing. It reads somewhat like an article in a small-town newspaper, or maybe a church bulletin. It's like glimpsing the characters through a thick layer of translucent plastic. The many references to "the kids," without giving their names, seems an odd choice. At first I thought her children were not very important to the protagonist, but later that does not seem true at all. So why leave them as shadowy characters way off in the background?
Another odd thing, which seems quite unnecessary to be repeated in the story, is mention of Carrie's vaping. It just made me laugh. This is vaping nicotine, not cannabis in any form.
On the other hand, the pots of coffee drunk at all hours of the day stuck out as a detail that actually did explicate Carrie's character.
Until I went back to look at the publication date, I thought maybe I was reading a Kindle version of printer's galleys because of the many small errors that a careful copyeditor should have picked up. I didn't see anything to indicate that it wasn't the final published version of the book, though. It has a publication date in 2020. These were things like a lack of closing quotation marks, a plural that should have been singular and vice-versa... They didn't make it difficult to understand the meaning, but they did pull me out of the story to trace the intended meaning. Another thing was that her "heart panged" at several times during the book. Maybe that is a regionalism that I don't use, and I fully understand the meaning, but it is used 3 or 4 times in this short book, and I wondered why Ms. Whatley didn't try to describe that situation differently at times.
All in all, it was a quick read, and I enjoyed it because of the premise .
First of all, I want to make it clear that I LOVE books about time travel! This book has a premise I have never seen before: An individual who can time-travel, and who has created rules to follow so that he won't cause too many perturbations of other people's lives. He wants to do good in the world, and he will not undertake making changes in the past -- the "corrections" of the title -- in order to make anyone wealthy, or for revenge or political power. I love the premise, and the book gets more stars because of it.
The other main person in the book is the grieving widow, Carrie, who, with her husband, writes articles for what sounds like a small, online newspaper. The articles are the stuff of small towns, highlighting businesses, events, and the occasional oddballs in town. She misses her husband, Mig (full name: Miguel Weathers), terribly, and wants the time traveler to make a small correction: to get her husband to a doctor sooner, so he won't die of (presumably treatable) cancer.
What got to me, and not in a good way, is the flatness of the writing. It reads somewhat like an article in a small-town newspaper, or maybe a church bulletin. It's like glimpsing the characters through a thick layer of translucent plastic. The many references to "the kids," without giving their names, seems an odd choice. At first I thought her children were not very important to the protagonist, but later that does not seem true at all. So why leave them as shadowy characters way off in the background?
Another odd thing, which seems quite unnecessary to be repeated in the story, is mention of Carrie's vaping. It just made me laugh. This is vaping nicotine, not cannabis in any form.
On the other hand, the pots of coffee drunk at all hours of the day stuck out as a detail that actually did explicate Carrie's character.
Until I went back to look at the publication date, I thought maybe I was reading a Kindle version of printer's galleys because of the many small errors that a careful copyeditor should have picked up. I didn't see anything to indicate that it wasn't the final published version of the book, though. It has a publication date in 2020. These were things like a lack of closing quotation marks, a plural that should have been singular and vice-versa... They didn't make it difficult to understand the meaning, but they did pull me out of the story to trace the intended meaning. Another thing was that her "heart panged" at several times during the book. Maybe that is a regionalism that I don't use, and I fully understand the meaning, but it is used 3 or 4 times in this short book, and I wondered why Ms. Whatley didn't try to describe that situation differently at times.
All in all, it was a quick read, and I enjoyed it because of the premise .
March 27, 2022
Full disclosure: I won a free, Kindle, copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway. The giveaway was not contingent upon rating or reviewing the book.
It's always fun to have another take on time travel. This one is all about the little stories, family dramas and, in a weird way, lost dogs.
Although I'm not sure of the premise (or the character's conviction) that it's ethical to use time travel to change small events but not big ones (to save a 60 year old's life, but not a 20 year old's, for example), but it's an interesting question to explore. Definitely one which leads to interesting questions and discussions.
It's always fun to have another take on time travel. This one is all about the little stories, family dramas and, in a weird way, lost dogs.
Although I'm not sure of the premise (or the character's conviction) that it's ethical to use time travel to change small events but not big ones (to save a 60 year old's life, but not a 20 year old's, for example), but it's an interesting question to explore. Definitely one which leads to interesting questions and discussions.
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December 15, 2020A different kind of time travel
Just when you think you've covered all the time travel bases, here we are with a new take. Yes, there is some mystery and suspense but for me the most interesting aspect was psychological. The author poses questions of morality and explores grief, depression, ethics, and hope. It comes to a conclusion that leaves the door open for more. I'd certainly return to see what happens next.
Just when you think you've covered all the time travel bases, here we are with a new take. Yes, there is some mystery and suspense but for me the most interesting aspect was psychological. The author poses questions of morality and explores grief, depression, ethics, and hope. It comes to a conclusion that leaves the door open for more. I'd certainly return to see what happens next.
June 10, 2022
So i don't normally like putting spoilers in my reviews, but for this one, i feel i have to.
I won this in a goodreads giveaway and thought it looked interesting due to it being about time travel.
Short version of the plot is a woman misses her husband who died of cancer and meets up with this guy who can time travel and tries to get him to bring him back with time travel. The only problem is, he and the husband already went back and saved her from a car crash and promised the husband to not try to save him if something happens.
I will admit, this book had a slow start. for the first near ~50% of the story, we don't really see any time travel, only hear the guy talking about how he did it and we kind of had to take his word for it. However, it's around the 60% mark that the book really picks up.
An evil guy who wants the time travel power shows up and they have to defeat him with time travel.
The biggest issue i have with time travel books is "is it a status quo or do they actually change the past?" pretty much for the entirety of this book, i was worried that they wouldn't revive the husband and she'd just move on from her grief. To my surprise and delight, this was not the case and the time traveller guy DID revive the husband at the way end. (this raised the book by at least 1/2 a star in my opinion)
Characterwise, i enjoyed the main dude. he kind of reminded me a doctor from 'doctor who', specifically the 8th doctor in a way. he was classy, yet also charming and tried to do good with time travel. the wife trying to save her husband was fine. She got a little annoying at times and the author put in a LOT of her grief in this. like if i took a shot every time she cried i'd be dead.
There were small parts of the book that i found unnecessary, like how towards the end of the book she went fishing and got mad at an annoying fisherman who was bugging her. It wasn't really necessary and kind of felt like filler. there's small instances of things like this throughout the book, but it wasn't enough to spoil it.
the writing style was very easy to follow. giving descriptions but not in a way that was over cumbersome or boring. The book itself is short, only hitting about 170 pages, but that's just as long as it needed to be. it didn't overstay it's welcome.
The only thing this book was missing was we didn't actually SEE any of the time travel. just the guy disappearing and the ramifications of how he changed the past.
Overall, i enjoyed this story and think it's a good first read from this author. Would recommend for time travel fans who like it when the past is changed.
3.5 out of 5 rounded up to a 4.
I won this in a goodreads giveaway and thought it looked interesting due to it being about time travel.
Short version of the plot is a woman misses her husband who died of cancer and meets up with this guy who can time travel and tries to get him to bring him back with time travel. The only problem is, he and the husband already went back and saved her from a car crash and promised the husband to not try to save him if something happens.
I will admit, this book had a slow start. for the first near ~50% of the story, we don't really see any time travel, only hear the guy talking about how he did it and we kind of had to take his word for it. However, it's around the 60% mark that the book really picks up.
An evil guy who wants the time travel power shows up and they have to defeat him with time travel.
The biggest issue i have with time travel books is "is it a status quo or do they actually change the past?" pretty much for the entirety of this book, i was worried that they wouldn't revive the husband and she'd just move on from her grief. To my surprise and delight, this was not the case and the time traveller guy DID revive the husband at the way end. (this raised the book by at least 1/2 a star in my opinion)
Characterwise, i enjoyed the main dude. he kind of reminded me a doctor from 'doctor who', specifically the 8th doctor in a way. he was classy, yet also charming and tried to do good with time travel. the wife trying to save her husband was fine. She got a little annoying at times and the author put in a LOT of her grief in this. like if i took a shot every time she cried i'd be dead.
There were small parts of the book that i found unnecessary, like how towards the end of the book she went fishing and got mad at an annoying fisherman who was bugging her. It wasn't really necessary and kind of felt like filler. there's small instances of things like this throughout the book, but it wasn't enough to spoil it.
the writing style was very easy to follow. giving descriptions but not in a way that was over cumbersome or boring. The book itself is short, only hitting about 170 pages, but that's just as long as it needed to be. it didn't overstay it's welcome.
The only thing this book was missing was we didn't actually SEE any of the time travel. just the guy disappearing and the ramifications of how he changed the past.
Overall, i enjoyed this story and think it's a good first read from this author. Would recommend for time travel fans who like it when the past is changed.
3.5 out of 5 rounded up to a 4.
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May 10, 2022
I received this as a Goodreads Giveaway.
At 60% in, I just couldn't see continuing. I was not engaged, found the story tedious, and couldn't deal with the sloppy editing. Maybe someone else will find this engaging. I did not.
At 60% in, I just couldn't see continuing. I was not engaged, found the story tedious, and couldn't deal with the sloppy editing. Maybe someone else will find this engaging. I did not.
June 3, 2023
I love the way the author talks about time travel as a way of "making corrections" to the past. I think that's a really interesting idea, and would make for a great movie! The book was entertaining and kept my interest. The only thing that seemed off was the comments about the main character vaping. It seemed out of character and like the author was trying to make a statement on the acceptability of vaping versus creating a believable character.
I won a copy of this book -- thank you!
I won a copy of this book -- thank you!
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