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Rated Here and Now and Then 6/10

The heart break of time travel.<br/><br/>I enjoyed this book. The time travel core mechanic is…okay. It's not perfect/bullet proof, but it works to create the impossible problem.<br/><br/>The main character is, a little all over the place. It's not enough to be distracting, but often I found myself thinking "this guy isn't helping himself" as he'd continuously make the same mistakes. Maybe this could have been edited out.<br/><br/>Without giving too much away, the main character gets stuck out of time for several decades and so eventually makes a life for himself. A family and some happiness.<br/><br/>Then, he's pulled back to his timeline (in the future) without any prospect of returning or even attempting closure with his wife and daughter.<br/><br/>The story goes on to attempt to deal with the question: could you let go? <br/><br/>The big problem being knowing _when_ to let go. There's no good time.<br/><br/>I've thought a lot about this in my personal life, which I think is why I could connect to the torment that the protagonist faces.<br/><br/>Not hard science, not a heart string puller, but thoughtful. Even if I wanted to shake the protagonist!

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Published 2026-08-01 11:10 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere