A story that will occupy your imagination!

This story flows well on the type of thought process involved in contemplation of the time continuum theory.
I do like the way the storyline progressively grows to the beginning.
I would recommend this literature to ages 15 and up

I listened to this audio version of my own accord, and make the above comments on a strictly voluntary basis.

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Conflicted

I didn't finish this one and won't. Sending it back as I just couldn't finish it.

The story isn't bad and I'm conflicted about rating it...can't tell if it would have been an okay "read" (3 stars) with decent narration or if the story and the narrator were both bad. The overly simplistic storyline might be okay if you can stand the horrible, 50s style pulp fiction narrator. I couldn't put up with the narration and can't tell if it was purposefully done in the War of the Worlds melodrama style or not. Is it cultish or just bad?

Bottom line, if you like the old 50s style horror movies like The Thing or the TV show The Outer Limits you might enjoy this one but don't waste a credit, get it on sale.

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A voice for the soul!

The narrator is a truly talented individual able to illicit all the appropriate feels from head to toe. Beautifully haunting yet soothing at the same time.

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Well...

This book feels a bit like this: You go to the Butcher, you buy his best cut of meat. Go home only to have it boiled in vinegar and served with unwashed and uncooked turnips.

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Connections in Time

A Loop in Time (Time Loop Book 1)
Author Clark Graham
Performed by William Mark Woelfle


I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this honest review.

I always like to preface any reviews I give with this information.
I am a 68 year old female who has been an avid reader since I was around 10 or 11 years old.

I have a great interest in many things. Ancient History and Archeology are at the top of a very long list.

I have always been interested in Science and also Science Fiction. I always like to believe there are possibilities. It is a given fact that what once was Science Fiction in the past, has become Science fact and will continue to become so.

When I read the premise of this book I was very intrigued and wanted to read/listen to it.

This book revolves around an USAF pilot of the F-117A aircraft,(which in our real world was developed by Lockheed Martin Skunk Works Division and has a formidable history in our world).

This book was a great experience to listen to. It is also kind of hard to review it as there are multiple dimensions of layers to this story. It is a well written and well thought out story. It is a book with many convolutions within the story line that lead the reader very well.



In the course of a test flight something goes awry and our pilot one Jason Ralston and the F-117A disappear, radio contact is lost and a search ensues to hopefully find; at the very least, the wreckage of the aircraft if not the remains of the pilot.

Neither pilot, nor aircraft are recovered. Not one scrap of wreckage or any remains of the pilot is found.

The story line then shifts to a crash of an aircraft in the Arizona desert. The pilot ejected from the craft and is hospitalized.

As the story advances we find out that the pilot has amnesia but slowly realizes he is experiencing a different timeline; a timeline that is decades before his own.

I don't want to reveal any more of this story. It is a great story and is also a fun listen as well.

For me this story seemed a little, stilted at the beginning, I guess one would say, but it is well worth listening to, or reading. The story quickly becomes more smooth and intriguing within a few chapters.

While I really enjoyed this story, I did not feel it was full of a lot of suspense, which is fine. It is a fun experience to listen to.

I feel like the author did very well with his research and was very creative in actually being able to bypass the time paradox in a very satisfactory way.

I will definitely want to listen to the 2nd book in this series.

The voice actor William Mark Woelfle, while being a very good speaker, I found a little hard to get used to his style of narration. This voice actor enunciates so very clearly, and slowly, unlike most of us every day people who tend to have accents or differences in ways of speech that give away our geographical beginnings. As much as I hesitate to say it, this felt like he was too professional in his reading of the book.

You know how sometimes when you are read to, or listen to an audiobook; you get caught up in the story and are enchanted by the reading and you know the difference between a storyteller and someone who is reading a book? This is the only way I know how to express the experience. I was always aware that I was being read to, and it made the book seem less gratifying an experience, even though I truly enjoyed the story itself.

All in all, this is well worth the time to read, or listen to.

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Loved it!

I actually loved this & didn’t mind the narrator. I was completely absorbed in the book. I’d gotten book two for free so being anal about reading all series in order I had to buy book one and complete it first.
I love all things time travel. This story was cute, clean, funny & enduring. I have already started book 2 and while it’s a story that’s been done before there is a lot of originality too.
If you love time travel stories as much as I do you will love this one too.

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An interesting book

It is different from any book I have listened to or read. A bit strange. Need to give it another listen to see if my views have changed from strange.

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This story has good bones...

This story has some really, very good bones, but the prose is terribly stilted and stiff. It's as if the author has never met an apostrophe - or if he did, he HATED it - and that makes the whole story clunky and cumbersome... Definitely not the way real people talk/use language!
The narrator couldn't overcome the obvious language issues and on top of that, he seemed overly dramatic... 
I'm a sucker for time travel, and this one, inspite of the issues I had, was actually cute and fun. I think what it really needs is to be re-edited, if indeed it was ever edited in the first place!

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If you're an adult don't waste your time.

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Not a thing.

Has A Loop in Time turned you off from other books in this genre?

It hasn't.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of William Mark Woelfle?

No.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Narrator's performance was hampered by fourth grade level writing.

Any additional comments?

Not worthy of consideration.

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Put it on 1.5x Speed

The story reads like a first time author and narrated by a rookie narrator. Bit if you like time travel stories, it’s okay.