![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goodreads
Title: Time and Time AgainAuthor: Ben Elton
Genre: Sci-fi
Rating: 4.5/5
# pages: 464
Date read: January 2016
It's the 1st of June 1914 and Hugh Stanton, ex-soldier and celebrated adventurer is quite literally the loneliest man on earth. No one he has ever known or loved has been born yet. Perhaps now they never will be.
Stanton knows that a great and terrible war is coming. A collective suicidal madness that will destroy European civilization and bring misery to millions in the century to come. He knows this because, for him, that century is already history.
Somehow he must change that history. He must prevent the war. A war that will begin with a single bullet. But can a single bullet truly corrupt an entire century?
And, if so, could another single bullet save it?
Fascinating book! Time-travel always appeals to me, and Ben Elton managed to deliver a book somewhat similar to "11/22/63" by Stephen King, but with twists and turns that were entirely its own.
It took a few chapters to get into it, but once I did I loved it and couldn't put it down! Some of the twists I had not seen coming, which always pleases me.
As often happens in time-travel novels (at least those set within our own universe), the ending at first glance seemed slightly depressing - but once I started thinking about it, it really couldn't have ended any other way.
