The Tourist

De: Robert Dickinson

Narrado por: Peter Kenny

The future has already happened.

It is expected to be an excursion like any other. There is nothing in the records to indicate that anything out of the ordinary will happen.

A bus will take them to the mall. They will have an hour or so to look around. Perhaps buy something, or try the food.

A minor traffic incident on the way back to the resort will provide some additional interest - but the tour rep has no reason to expect any trouble.

Until he notices that one of his party is missing.

Most disturbingly, she is a woman who, according to the records, did not go missing.

Now she is a woman whose disappearance could change the world.

With breathtaking plot twists that ricochet through time, this is the most original conspiracy thriller you will hear this year.

©2016 Robert Dickinson (P)2016 Hachette Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Welcome to the 21st Century. Please don't feed the natives....Dickinson's literary prose glides through the plot thickets with graceful assurance....Echoes of Bradbury and Orwell, in the service of a crackerjack conspiracy plot; a seductively intriguing work of speculative fiction." ( Kirkus)

intriguing story asks questions it fails to answer

The writing is passable, story is intriguing if confusing w/many twists and turns that ultimately result in a dead end. instantly forgettable, sorry to say.

Disappointed

I was disappointed in this book. It is confusing ( it could be less confusing in print ) the main character is, while not horrible or a bad personality or anything, flat and uninteresting. The plot might have been good but it was undermined by the point of view and flat delivery.
I kind of wish I hadn't spent a credit on it.

Interesting but confusing time travel

I love time travel novels and don't mind a novel with an ambiguous ending, that The Tourist definitely fit the bill but overall I'd say it was just barely OK.

It started out strong but as it went on the plot just seemed to become more and more convoluted to the point where I really didn't know what was going on or what to care about. There was enough going on and interesting twists to maintain my interest but I think some of this was lost on me. The world building was good and the characters interesting. It wasn't all tied up with a bow at the end, which was fine, but I was lost enough during my listen to not quite follow what exactly was going on some of the time. It might make more sense to me if there was a second listen, but there won't be one.

Kudos to the audiobook narrator Peter Kenny who did a great job with the many voices and provided a lot of energy to a book which sometimes became a slog for me.

An aficionado of time travel novels with a younger, sharper brain than I might enjoy this more than I did.

Terrible

This book is too difficult to understand. The British accent is incomprehensible. The story makes no sense. Watching paint dry is more enjoyable.