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I want to read it!! Sounds great! I would love an advance copy. I would be glad to give an honest review on Goodreads.
Terrific! I'll send you details.Linda wrote: "I want to read it!! Sounds great! I would love an advance copy. I would be glad to give an honest review on Goodreads."
Wow, that sounds like one I'd like to read, too!
Let me know if you want an advance copy for review!Art wrote: "Wow, that sounds like one I'd like to read, too!"
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And me :). Story sounds wonderful. Best of luck to you, Everett, on your debut release!!!
If you're interested send me an email at ev.maroon at gmail and I'll send you the ebook version. :)
I lost track of the book --- am starting it tonight! Thankyou, and apologies. Looking forward to it :)
I have this on my Want to Read list for sure. I'm a big time travel fan, and personally am writing my second time travel novel.I have epilepsy, and I have to say that my experiences having seizures seem to be excellent models for what it must feel like to time travel. My mind comes out of a seizure so bombarded, like I've run through a thousand facts and times and languages in 30 seconds. I'm interested to read how it feels to your character.
Larissa wrote: "I have this on my Want to Read list for sure. I'm a big time travel fan, and personally am writing my second time travel novel.I have epilepsy, and I have to say that my experiences having seizur..."
I had epilepsy growing up, too, so I had pretty much decided I was teleporting when I'd go to bed in my room and wake up in the hospital. So part of this story came out of that experience. I'd love to hear how your experience matches up against the protagonist's.
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I am just over a third of the way in. Really like your writing, Everett. The traveling back in time, and also to another location, is interesting. Looking forward to that bit being explained.Time Hunters moved locations too, but it was a vehicle :p, and you entered your location in time and space before your trip. So far, Jack just seizes and is transported to another time, so I admit, the part about moving locations simultaneously is scratching at me for some reason.
Hope that itch is scratched soon!
Also, no wonder the epilepsy parts sound so realistic.
Ev,TY for the ARC. Just finished. You were losing me in the middle, when it seemed like the time travel was nothing more than a device to explore gender identity, ala that Star Trek TNG episode where Beverly falls in love with the twinned being whose male host dies, and is re-implanted into a female host.
But then you put together a string of really interesting chapters, right after the high school part of the story. I'm interested for the second part. Still iffy about the love part, b/c Jack was 15 when he jumped into Jac, and she was only 8-9-10 at the time. Then Jack jumped into his 18 yo self, and, it seemed like there was differing bits over whether you were supposed to identify with the character at the jumped into age, or the jumped age, and well, how could he have fallen in love with him that quick.
Well, don't want to spoiler it. Hope I haven't already.
And, the location aspect of jumping didn't really get explained. But again, loved the last third of the book, and the ending.
Best of luck with your launch! And, ty again.
ps - shelving the book for a genre challenge. Would you say it's Young Adult, or Science Fiction?
Thanks for the feedback! I consider it YA, speculative fiction, with LGBT themes.
I rated it 4 stars. I'm not a 'review' person :p, I mostly just type up summaries to remind myself, but I think I promised to write one, so here's my slightly more than short review :):Time travel through neural synapse firings. Interesting! Engaging writing, enjoyed the read.
Starts off following Jack, whose epilepsy serves as a conduit for his initial trips through time. Just when the time traveling aspect gets interesting, the story begins to explore gender identity, via the various bodies the self travels into. The story picked up in speed after a few trips back, and more of the time traveling aspect was revealed.
I'm interested to see what happens in #2! And to find out what has happened to Jack, and more importantly, Jack's body, and also to see explained what happened to the characters before Jacks hops, ie what was the story with Jac, and what happened to her consciousness? Actually, what happens to the consciousness of all the bodies hopped into! In Quantum Leap, they went into the white room ;-). What happens to them in the Time Guardians?
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Fifteen-year-old Jack Bishop has mad skills with cars and engines, but knows he’ll never get a driver’s license because of his epilepsy. Agreeing to participate in an experimental clinical trial to find new treatments for his disease, he finds himself occupying a completely different body—that of a girl his age, Jacqueline, who defies the expectations of her era. Since his seizures often give him spazzed out visions, Jack presumes this is a hallucination. Feeling fearless, he steals a horse, expecting that at any moment he’ll wake back up in the clinical trial lab. Instead Jack/Jacqueline comes across a young boy, Lucas, who falls out of a high perch in a tree. As Jack/Jacqueline struggles to save Lucas, he comes face-to-face with Dr. Traver, the only medical help available, but who is also known as the town drunk.
Suddenly Jack careens back into his own world—two years after he left. With his mother facing a health crisis and Jacqueline’s small town in the grip of Dr. Traver, who is now a teetotaller-turned self-proclaimed prophet during Prohibition-era Kentucky, Jack is caught between two lives and epochs, and must find a way to save everyone around him as well as himself. And all the while, he is losing time. Maybe some things are worse than algebra class.