J’ai reçu une pré-version pour donner mon avis sur ce livre, et je n’ai pas pu le lire : c’était un PDF pour version print, avec encore les fonds perdus et une police minuscule impossible à agrandir.

Dommage ! Et pas très pro.

I normally like time travel books as you can tell from my library. The author had an intriguing take on a train in the 1940's that runs down tracks taking characters into different time periods. I was, however, highly put off by the repeated derogatory references to God and His character that by the first five chapters struck me as the author's main agenda in writing the book; it had nothing to do with the plot line. Blatant blasphemy against God is offensive and prompted me to delete the digital edition text (an Early Reviewer"prize" thank you...) from my phone and tablet. The book is twaddle and not worth reading. So there -- I can't spoil the ending for you. ( )

Strap in for one wild ride as the events of the future affect the past and what differentiates the good guys from the bad guys becomes increasingly harder to define. What would you do if no matter how hard you tried you couldn't stop the end of the world from coming, would you go mad or turn totally evil trying to stop the inevitable. ( )

This book is very different. I enjoy time travel books in general. It starts off in the 1940's. I enjoyed the first part of the book because I felt like it was new and fresh and I didn't know where the story was heading. Towards the middle of the book as more characters got added, it became confusing. There was quite a few time jumps and it became confusing to as where in time they were. Then towards the end of the book, something happened and you have no idea how they got there. Then the next chapter, it explained what had happened. I felt the story dragged on a little too long. It was about 350 pages long. ( )

Having read the book in a week, I found it an easy read, with a plot that jumps forward and backward in time (as expected, given the title), and giving the story to various characters from one chapter to the next. They are at the same time trying to hide from some alien race which is invading Earth and destroying its population, and using the time train to find a way to combat it or to prevent it from ever coming in the first place. There are a few typos remaining, a few words I did not understand and a part of the plot that I found difficult to believe would have been possible, but globally it was enjoyable enough that I wanted to continue reading it. ( )