Synopsis

The Time Traveller’s Wife meets The Butterfly Effect in this touching, heart-felt love story.

When Caitlyn Richter turns twenty-one, she begins having strange, unsettling episodes: pins and needles in her hands, a rushing noise in her ears, and a blinding light obscuring her vision. After a bad episode, Caitlyn finds herself somewhere different, with no idea how she got there. To her horror, Caitlyn learns she has inherited a disorder that causes her to travel back and forth in time uncontrollably, and to make matters worse, one small change to the past can have massive consequences for the present.

Caitlyn quickly realises she must do whatever it takes to leave the past unchanged. But that’s easier said than done, especially after she meets Toby Beech, an attractive 1980s carpenter who wants to spend as much time with her as possible and who she finds herself falling in love with.

Caitlyn has two choices. She can force herself to stay away from Toby and keep her life in the present intact. Or she can follow her heart and risk the ripple effect wreaking havoc on everything and everyone she loves.

An impossible decision. An ill-fated love.

An incredible story you don’t want to miss.

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Review

How far would you go for love? And what if the consequences could change your whole world?

I love a good time travel story, and this one is a little unique and brings in the Butterfly Effect. Any small change made in the past could have a huge impact on the present.

Caitlyn discovers her abilities when she turns 21, but sadly, no one has given her the heads up like Grandma, who experienced the same thing in her youth. The downside is that Grandma has dementia and isn’t always in the right frame of mind to answer Caitlyn’s questions. Caitlyn does have a very supportive family; however, she can’t tell them what is going on with her. She plays it off as being dizzy, losing friends, and whatever else she can come up with to pacify them. This is hard because I know she wants to tell them the truth, especially her sister, who will most likely experience the same thing when she turns 21.

I’m not sure how or why this disorder picks the year that she returns to. But it is 1983, and the house she lives in is just being built. This is how she meets Toby and falls head over heels for him. Remember that Butterfly Effect I mentioned? Her interactions with Toby do cause some ripples in her present when she returns. You will have to read the book to find out what exactly.

This was a very engaging book, and each time she jumped, I wondered what she might do that could change her world in the present. We see the small changes, but I think there is more to come based on her actions near the end of the book. This is obviously going to be a series because the book ends and leaves you hanging. This is one of those times that I wanted to throw the book across the room because I wanted to know what was going to happen in her present day based on this event. But alas, I will have to wait for the second book to discover the answer. But it is a doozy.

There are many unique events that happened that were surprising, and it led me to believe how some things might turn out. I don’t know if I am right or not. I will have to wait for book 2.

If you enjoy time travel novels, you might enjoy this one. We give it 4 paws up.

About the Author

Cally Jackson grew up in the small country town of Gatton. After deciding at 17 that a Hollywood acting career was sadly out of reach, Cally turned to a career in professional communication with fictional writing as her labour of love.

Cally’s passion for fictional writing first emerged in grade two when she got in trouble for penning her own tale instead of copying directly from a story book as she was supposed to be doing – it was a handwriting exercise, after all.

Cally’s first novel, The Big Smoke, was published in 2012. A decade and two children later, Cally has released her second novel, The Ripple Effect.

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