Week 20 Review: Here and Now and Then

From Goodreads:
To save his daughter, he'll go anywhere--and any-when...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, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career...as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142.

Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler's brain. Until one afternoon, his "rescue" team arrives--eighteen years too late.

Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he's only been gone weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can't remember. Torn between two lives, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself, his daughter's very existence is at risk. It'll take one final trip across time to save Miranda--even if it means breaking all the rules of time travel in the process.

A uniquely emotional genre-bending debut, Here and Now and Then captures the perfect balance of heart, playfulness, and imagination, offering an intimate glimpse into the crevices of a father's heart and its capacity to stretch across both space and time to protect the people that mean the most.

My Review:
I enjoyed reading this book so much! It was a fantastic read, and I had such a great time reading it! I was a bit confused at the beginning, but then it came together, and it was such a great, though really heart-breaking story!

At heart, this is a story about family, and the lengths that you'll go to protect your family. Of course, it's complicated by the fact that he was from the future, did a mission in the past, got trapped, started a family-and now people from the future are coming to get him. And it really sucks. Because he had a fiancé in the future, and it's only been a little while for them, while for him, it's been 20 years. 

This story was told in parts. There's the start, with the end of the mission, and making this new life. And then skipping forward, to the present, where the very-much late rescue mission comes for him. And then there's the part where he's in the future, trying desperately to get back. And then there's the final part, where he's just trying to set everything to rights. And just watching him go on this journey, it was hard!

Either way, either life, he's loosing people, and it's hard. I really enjoyed that ending though, even if it was bittersweet, I'm glad that he knew, and it was a really great ending to this time traveling story! Really enjoyed Kin's story!

This was a really great read, and I had a great time with it!

Author: Mike Chen
Read: May 21st, 2021
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a SAC 2021 Book!
Publisher: Mira
Published: June 29th 2019

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