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Here and Now and Then

By: Mike Chen
Narrated by: Cary Hite
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 From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood

A Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 Semifinalist

One of BookBub’s Best Science Fiction Books of 2019

One of Book Riot’s Best Books of 2019 So Far

One of The Nerd Daily’s Best Debut Novels of 2019

Featured in The Millions “A Year in Reading”

One of Entropy’s Best Fiction Books of 2019

He’ll go anywhere and any when to save his daughter

Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter.

But his current life is a far cry from his previous career…as a time-traveling secret agent from over a century in the future.

Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, until one afternoon, his “rescue” team arrives—eighteen years too late.

Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he’s been gone only weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can’t remember.

Torn between two lives, Kin’s desperate efforts to stay connected to both will threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself. With his daughter’s very existence at risk, he will have to take one final trip to save her—even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.

“Heartfelt and thrilling… Chen’s concept is unique, and [his characters’] agony is deeply moving. Quick pacing, complex characters, and a fascinating premise.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Adventure Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Time Travel Heartfelt
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Once you get through the first 10 or so minutes, you will be hooked. Great story.

Heart-warming

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Not bad but a very lightweight story. I prefer my sci fi to be more insightful, but this is more about relationships and family. It’s limited in scope and predictable but some may enjoy it.
My biggest issue is the narration. Overall decent, but please if you can’t do the accents don’t try. I would much rather use my imagination than cringe through most of the book.

Paint by numbers type story

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The storyline is good but some of the dialogue really stretches credibility. also why would you have a narrator for a book with 2 English characters who can't do an English accent? His English accent sounds as if Dick Van Dyke spent a few years in Australia

Two dimensional and unbelievable characters

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