Tag: wrong place wrong time

Mystery
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪

Wrong Place, Wrong Time begins when Jen sees her teenage son stab someone to death in the street one night. When she wakes up the next morning, she finds that she has actually gone back a day. So begins her slow journey into the past trying to figure out why her son would kill someone and how to prevent it from happening.

The setup of this story made me thinking of the movie Memento, with Jen never being able to build on her conversations with anyone from day to day. Whenever I thought surely we would not venture further into the past, we JUST KEPT GOING.

Even with a reverse timeline, I found it easy to keep up with the storyline and fascinating to watch Jen piece things together and slowly understand how parts of her past came to inform her future.

This bumped up to a five star read for me at the very end when we learned what the catalyst was for absolutely everything. It changed the entire story and was not at all what I would expect from this kind of thriller. I’m pretty sure my jaw literally dropped in public.

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