Doesn't make sense

You can travel forward or backward in time with almost no restrictions but the obvious paradoxes that'd result aren't explained.

The story is written from the viewpoint of its time traveling main character Martin. That viewpoint includes the time and place that he is living in. Events unfold from his point of view as if they were fixed once they happened. For instance, there's an attempt by him to stop certain bad things that happened in his past, but he is unable to directly stop one such event by a mysterious force that is never explained. He watches another horrible event unfold in front of him but makes no attempt to go back and change it again, content to know he did nothing except learn what happened. Causality would have been violated in both cases since the character would be altering his own memories and his own life preventing him from possibly going back to stop the things he was trying to stop.

Are there alternate universes he would travel to when changing the past? That would be one way to explain away causality issues. Nope, there's no hint of that or any other explanation. Also, there are other time travelers from the future and from the past who also have their own perspective of what happened or will happen and yet things do not remain fixed for them - somehow only Martin's perspective matters. We're told that the future isn't fixed and that some characters go forward to see what will happen to help make decisions but at what point does one character's fixed past and another character's hazy future coalescent to something that actually happens? That's never explained either.

There are other reasons not to like this book series including a very gruesome torture / murder scene in one of the later books. The graphic description adds nothing to the book and seems to be there for gratuitous reasons only.

Also in a later book there's a gigantic 4,000 death terrorist event that just happened with little consequence but a smaller 17 death terrorist event leads to very big outcomes.

I'm giving up and not finishing the 5th and 6th books in the series because I've given up thinking that things will be explained rationally.

Do yourself a favor and skip reading these books.

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Disappointed

I’m a sucker for a good time travel story. Unfortunately, this isn’t one. So many inconsistencies. No rhyme or reason why anything works the way it does. No explanations for anything. The story goes nowhere, and it’s impossible to care about any of the characters. And the narration was horrible. The narrator spoke in a monotone so you couldn’t tell any of the characters apart, and he was very nasally. I just wanted him to blow his nose. Finishing these books was a chore, I only finished them hoping for some redemption somewhere, but it never came.

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Worst excuse for a piece of published writing ever

I only wish I could give this book a negative number. A one is way too generous. How on earth did this hack ever get published? I have read much better from sophomores in high school. It's derivative, poorly researched, poorly thought out and filled with stupid characters who have no depth, no intellectual abilities, and no emotional intelligence. How could anyone who knows anything about humanity think for a moment that anyone would ever care about what happens to such hapless fools. If I could get my credit back - heck if I could get the time I wasted listening to this back - I would.

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Too Dark

I love time travel books. They are my "go to" many times when browsing. I wanted to really like this series as the boxset is 25 hours and I drive many hours on the road. This series left me too worried and anxious about what was going to happen to the main character, and depressing because sad things kept happening. I don't always have to have "happily ever after" books, but this one left me totally down in the dumps after the first book was over. I started the second book and decided I had to return the title and get another more uplifting book to read. The narrator wasn't bad like others stated, I just didn't like the dark content and the story never seemed to make me feel happy or satisfied about anything.

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Topical Sci Fi…Who Knew?

Great story with a fantastic current twist. You really don’t see all this coming. I hope there are more

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Sloppy, uninspired, generic, just not great

First off, the narrator was extremely off. His cadence was really bad, like he was struggling to read or something. Every conversation in the series feels awkward and without finesse. Nothing seems to fit and the characters are clunky. The premise is intriguing, but it's very mishandled. I have always given good reviews of books I enjoyed and just ignored ones I didn't. But this was bad enough that I felt compelled to comment. A huge miss for me.

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Loved it!

I love time travel stories and I can't wait until I get the next credit to continue listening. The narrator is great and reminds me of Stephen King audible books which I have listened to almost all of them.

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Time travel series

I really liked this story line and recommend all 6 books. The author commented that if you like Stephen King you will enjoy these books and he is surely right about that. The narrator does a superb job as well

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kept my interest

Overall, it is a decent series, but a little neive regarding political causations. One point in book one was that the future dictator government was death on anyone speaking against the Second Amendment. I'd challenge anyone to show me a government of tyranny that wants the public to be armed.

Save Yourself!

I normally don't do reviews, but I felt it was my responsibility to try to save future readers from the pain and heartache that will invariably strike you down should you proceed to purchase this disaster.
I really wanted it to be a great story, but alas, Stephen King already wrote one called 11/22/63.
this hack was a shameless ripoff of a great story and looks like it was written as a sophomore composition assignment. Not College, High School.
the story has so many holes in the plot that it's almost painful to follow.
there is no flow, and it appears that the author was just phoning it in.
Let's talk about the narration. Oh my God! the reading sounded like it was done by a High School Student that had been pushed forward to each new grade because the teachers didn't want to deal with him. His performance was choppy and uninteresting. the pauses had no discernable cadence, and it sounded like he was trying to perform a group hypnotism at a child's birthday party. I wish I could unhear everything I forced myself to listen to.
save you money or your credits and place the Author and narrator on your do not purchase list.
ignore this review at your own peril.