• Seven Rules of Time Travel

  • By: Roy Huff
  • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
  • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (158 ratings)

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Seven Rules of Time Travel

By: Roy Huff
Narrated by: Christopher Lane
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What if you could rewrite the past?

Quinn Black is having the worst day ever...over and over again. The same car blocking his driveway, the same horrific accident he witnesses, the same cop that keeps preventing him from saving his boss from dying in it, and the same memory of a girl from his past that gets sharper each time.

Then he realizes he has the power to travel through time and change the future. With infinite opportunities to alter the past, the possibilities are endless. Could he prevent terrorist attacks? Natural disasters? The deaths of friends? Or even go back in time and say the right thing to the girl who haunts his dreams?

Unfortunately, the rules of time travel are more complicated than he imagined, and before long, Quinn is thrust into the greatest race in human history. His actions can either save the world or destroy it. And now the man who could turn back the clock is running out of time.

©2020 Roy Huff (P)2020 Podium Audio

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How do I rate this disaster?

I LOVE the time travel sub-genre and I’m afraid I have run out of good stories. I gave this a three because I stayed until the end. Now I cannot decide if I wasted 7.5 hours of listening time or not.

The idea was great. The execution was extremely lacking. The story was disjointed. There were times I felt I missed a chapter or two because plot points were resolved out of nowhere. The plot seems to change almost chapter to chapter and many character arcs were so turned around it made no sense.

I’m not a writer, just an avid reader. So I probably have no idea what I’m talking about but it seems to me that this author published his very first draft. The end was definitely rushed, almost like he had a deadline and was ⅔ finished with the story when the publisher couldn’t wait any longer. Maybe he just was as confused as his readers would be so he just decided to end the book and with it his, and our, suffering. For that I say thank you.

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Let down

Great premise and a cool start. It felt rushed and the end was a let down.

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Ending is a letdown

The overall story was pretty good. But the ending had such a flat feel to it. Definitely needed more to spice that up.

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Interesting

I enjoyed this multi-verse time-travel story and look forward to hearing more from this author.

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Total wreck of a book

Where to start? The book is only 7 hours and boy it could use a couple more! The author speeds through events without describing characters, places, feelings.. There is almost no creation of atmosphere. In just 15 minutes you're in a totally different scene, with new people, I a new timeline going through just the motions. Second: the story sucks! Timetravel isn't an excuse to drop all logic: he's on 1 timeline, travels to the future but in another dimension to get information for his current dimensions past?? Makes no sense. Third: characters are lame! Protagonist is this perfect boyscout trying to save the world so there's no room for personal growth. His struggles are pure problem solving: barely some ethical dilemmas or though choices. Then there are the supporting characters: so we've got this 30 years old mind in a 13 years old body and he's hanging out with his real 13 year old friend and there is zero friction between a kid and basicly an adult with future knowledge. Then comes in the love intrest: the 30 year old starts hitting on his 13 year old high school crush. Basically this should be like a teen novel, but because the author doesn't want to alienate an older demographic he has these teens behave like 30 year Old engeneers and scientists so problem solved I guess.

Further on the logic: the little empathy you had for our hero, you lose once you realize he's super selfish. The whole logic of it all is: the can transfer his conscience between infinite dimensions. His original conscience is on a timeline where the world ends and all.he wants is to live on a timeline where he saves the world. But we are made very clear that all the other people on that timeline do stay there. So it all boils down to this guy hopping from dimension to dimension so he can be the big hero only for his own ego and that specific dimension. A deeper philosophical question to the point of it all, and does all matter if there are infinite world's you can not save, is never even asked.

And one last thing: don't use real world politicians and leaders, it gets "political" real.quick. Just make up some names.

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Too muddled

This book starts off great but gets muddled and ends very fast. I was disappointed with it.

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just about did it

well do e story that almost made it to the finish line. the end of the book derails on an emotional but ultimately lesser task than the one you've been following for the entire book. then, in the final moments, the come back in time to give you no resolution. it's like the varsity team went home and the JV team came in to finish the book.

very close to being amazing. but, aside from the final few chapters, it's really good and very well done.

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Ending was... abrupt (SPOILERS)

I enjoyed the book, for the most part. The first half to two-thirds was engaging. I had issues when the main character jumped into a side storyline to change events that had nothing to do with the main storyline, and that wasn't very interesting to me because there was no real struggle or suspense to resolve it even though it took many chapters. After that, the ending was a major letdown.

SPOILER in the next paragraph.

After that side storyline was complete, there were only 6 minutes of story left, and the author pretty much wrapped everything up in a bow as an epilogue without any additional struggle for some MAJOR hurdles that needed to be overcome in the main storyline. It seemed like a couple of paragraphs of "yep, they solved that," and a lot of payouts with no work, including a sudden resolution to a romance that was never addressed in the actual story.

I feel like Roy Huff had a deadline so thought "well, I can wrap this up with a couple of hours of writing!" Good 7% off the book, but felt like a super rush to wrap everything up neatly after a big tangent for the last third of the book.

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Captivating

Finally an interesting listen after the last half dozen books I've listened to seemed to just be passing time. This one caught my attention early and kept it to the end.

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After reading all the great reviews I expected more...

After reading all the great reviews I expected more... As a huge fan of the genre I was excited to listen to this, and came away underwhelmed.

It's not bad, but it was hard to follow all of the loops at times and it never peaked for me. It all just sort of went along at the same pace without any exciting or ah-ha moments. And the narration felt the same, just a little lack-luster.

It was just okay. Probably won't continue the series.

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