Time Change Time Travel Series Book 1 eBook Alex Myers
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Imagine what would happen if you made different choices...
"This sci-fi historical novel... is great fun and an awesome read." (James A. Anderson, reviewer)
"...combination of styles such as HG Wells and George Lucas." (Tesla, reviewer)
"An absolute must have for lovers of time travel! Fascinating look at pre-Civil War America." (Crystal, reviewer)
HE MAJORED IN SCIENCE AND MINORED IN UNREALIZED DREAMS
High school teacher Jack Riggs is having a streak of bad luck. In a matter of hours he is • Arrested as a terrorist • Thrown in jail • Breaking up with his psycho girlfriend • And flung a century and a half into the past.
A TIME TRAVEL RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK
It’s 157 years ago in Norfolk, Virginia and Jack has no money, a nearly dead iPhone in his pocket, and no idea how he got there. He must assimilate if he’s to have any hope of getting back. He alone holds the key to saving nearly a million people, and he’s got to do it in three and a half years.
HELP FROM YOUNG SAMUEL CLEMENS AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Can Jack invent this country out of its bloodiest war ever while trying to stay one step ahead of those who want him dead? Time Change Book One jumps back to 1856 and an America on the verge of war . . . and discovery.
“I like my coffee strong, my physics quantum, and I’m a firm believer in the theory of relativity.” ~Jack Riggs, Inventor 1857
Time Change Time Travel Series Book 1 eBook Alex Myers
The vernacular is not consistent with the 1850s, with the characters in the past speaking and using terms that would only be heard in the 21st century. Additionally, the time line of the protagonist in 1856 is skewed. He arrived in February 1856, but when asked by another character who he had disclosed his true identity and origin to, says he celebrated his 4 month anniversary of his arrival in April 1856. Details, no matter how insignificant, truly matter to readers.Now to the characters. Never before have I disliked a protagonist as much as I did Jack Riggs. Putting it bluntly, he was kind of a womanizing jerk. I was immediatley turned off by his character, or lack thereof, due to his attraction to an 18 year old high school girl who was taking his science class at the high school of which he was employed.
Time traveler Jack is from 2012, and does not act with caution as many other travelers from other literary works. He is reckless with his own agenda even breaking the #1 sacred time traveler's creed to never reveal too much information about one's future - by telling Samuel Clemons that he will become Mark Twain and the famous stories he will write as well as offering him a job. Jack Riggs obviously never met Doc Brown or watched an episode of Doctor Who.
Yes, Jack had ambitions to stop the Civil War, but does so in a reckless manner, compromising the entire time line of technology and weapons development. Why would any modern person mention the atomic bomb as a possible invention to consider in 1856, knowing the destruction and loss of life it caused in the 20th century? Especially when this person is bent on preventing a war that took the lives of millions? I'm still scratching my head on that one. Hooking up with notable innovators of the time, such as John Deere, Cyrus McCormick and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to make fast advancements in farming implements and other inventions that came on the scene in the last 150 years, Jack not only makes a profit on these business deals (profiteering much?), but he pumps out "ingenious" inventions like they are popcorn. In the midst of all this, he can't seem to control is sexual urges, sleeping with his landlady within his first week of arriving in 1856 to save on boarding expenses. Any pretty face that crosses his path, he remarks that he "WILL have her." Yet, has no qualms with his actions even after meeting, falling for, and confiding in business heiress Frances Sanger, satiating his lust with a prostitute living in the same boarding house as him. Thankfully the text spared the details of the affairs.
The combination of Jack's unlikable characteristics and the lack of certain details and character reactions really made navigating this novel rather difficult. However, it improved by the final few chapters, that the words just flew odd the pages ending in a rather jaw dropping cliffhanger. So even though I don't really like Jack Riggs, I truly want to know how this alternate reality now unfolds, and will likely be purchasing the next in the series.
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Time Change Time Travel Series Book 1 eBook Alex Myers Reviews
Time Change Book One The Jump, is a new speculative fiction time travel book by Austin radio personality, Alex Myers. The teaser for the book says that the main character, high school science teacher Jack Riggs is having a streak of bad luck and this is an understatement. As the book opens, Jack is arrested as a terrorist and jailed, breaks up with his "psycho" girlfriend, and finds himself a century and a half in the past. When read this description of the story I had to buy the book and find out how this would all play out.
The book has a beautifully contrived beginning that is filled with humor and shows how Jack is caught up in a drama that was not of his own making. As bad as Jack's day starts out in Virginia Beach, it gets significantly worse when he is chosen by a mysterious character called The Dark Man for a task in another time. Jack, of course, has no idea what is happening when the car accident he is involved in seems to propel him from present day Virginia Beach to rural Norfolk, Virginia in 1856 - just prior to the start of the Civil War.
Jack, who prides himself on being logical, has a hard time accepting he has actually moved through time and isn't having some kind of mental breakdown. As the book progressed, I found myself more and more swept up in how Jack as a modern man was experiencing the past, and how a small choice he might make in the past might alter the future he came from irrevocably. One other fun part of the book is the black and white photographs that illustrate some of the significant chapters of the book.
Alex Myers has written a funny and compelling book that weaves actual historic people and events together into a great page turner. I am looking forward to the second book in the series to find out what happens to the characters I have grown to care about. This is a great start to a series and I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes history and alternate time travel adventure.
This book was nothing like I expected it to be. I found myself becoming lost in the book and am looking forward to reading the second part. Jack Riggs a Science teacher and womanizer living in the 21st Century is involved in a terrible car accident, when he awakens he finds that he has traveled back in time to the year 1856; the year where the infamous Civil War would take place. Trying to become a better person and make a difference he will use his knowledge from the 21st century and try to make his new found life in 1856 a better place and help to do what he can to prevent the war from happening. Along the way he will meet and make great friends with some of the most famous historical people that made a great impact in today's world, at the same time making some very powerful enemies as well.
As one would expect, the littlest of changes can have a great impact on what will happen in the future when one tries to make changes; especially when you have made some powerful enemies along the way. While attending a meeting with these powerful and famous people to try and prevent the war, they will be attacked by their vicious enemies who are hell bent on making sure the war takes place; killing some great people before their time. Jack himself is hurt and wakes up for a few minutes back in the 21st century, wondering if it was all just a dream. However, as he drifts back into that unconscious state he hears a voice telling him that he must go back, for his work is not yet done.
Will he once again wake up in the year 1856? I do not know, but I plan to find out when I read the second part to the book. Although, there are a few grammatical errors (like in all books) I still give this book a 5 star rating. You will find yourself being drawn in quickly and wanting to read more. I look forward to following this author and reading his future works.
The vernacular is not consistent with the 1850s, with the characters in the past speaking and using terms that would only be heard in the 21st century. Additionally, the time line of the protagonist in 1856 is skewed. He arrived in February 1856, but when asked by another character who he had disclosed his true identity and origin to, says he celebrated his 4 month anniversary of his arrival in April 1856. Details, no matter how insignificant, truly matter to readers.
Now to the characters. Never before have I disliked a protagonist as much as I did Jack Riggs. Putting it bluntly, he was kind of a womanizing jerk. I was immediatley turned off by his character, or lack thereof, due to his attraction to an 18 year old high school girl who was taking his science class at the high school of which he was employed.
Time traveler Jack is from 2012, and does not act with caution as many other travelers from other literary works. He is reckless with his own agenda even breaking the #1 sacred time traveler's creed to never reveal too much information about one's future - by telling Samuel Clemons that he will become Mark Twain and the famous stories he will write as well as offering him a job. Jack Riggs obviously never met Doc Brown or watched an episode of Doctor Who.
Yes, Jack had ambitions to stop the Civil War, but does so in a reckless manner, compromising the entire time line of technology and weapons development. Why would any modern person mention the atomic bomb as a possible invention to consider in 1856, knowing the destruction and loss of life it caused in the 20th century? Especially when this person is bent on preventing a war that took the lives of millions? I'm still scratching my head on that one. Hooking up with notable innovators of the time, such as John Deere, Cyrus McCormick and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to make fast advancements in farming implements and other inventions that came on the scene in the last 150 years, Jack not only makes a profit on these business deals (profiteering much?), but he pumps out "ingenious" inventions like they are popcorn. In the midst of all this, he can't seem to control is sexual urges, sleeping with his landlady within his first week of arriving in 1856 to save on boarding expenses. Any pretty face that crosses his path, he remarks that he "WILL have her." Yet, has no qualms with his actions even after meeting, falling for, and confiding in business heiress Frances Sanger, satiating his lust with a prostitute living in the same boarding house as him. Thankfully the text spared the details of the affairs.
The combination of Jack's unlikable characteristics and the lack of certain details and character reactions really made navigating this novel rather difficult. However, it improved by the final few chapters, that the words just flew odd the pages ending in a rather jaw dropping cliffhanger. So even though I don't really like Jack Riggs, I truly want to know how this alternate reality now unfolds, and will likely be purchasing the next in the series.
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