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    Toward Yesterday
    Toward Yesterday
    Toward Yesterday
    Audiobook7 hours

    Toward Yesterday

    Written by Paul Antony Jones

    Narrated by Alexander Cendese

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    What would you do if you suddenly found yourself twenty-five years in the past? For the nine billion people living in the year 2042 it’s no longer a question…it’s a reality.

    When a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded in the past alongside the rest of mankind. Here the old are young once more, the dead live again, and civilization is in chaos.

    With the fate of humanity on the line, James must join a hastily assembled group of scientists, a reincarnated murder victim, and a genius trapped in her six-year-old body to reconcile the earlier mistakes of their future counterparts. The team struggles to prevent global extinction, and along the way they come face-to-face with their past losses, new loves, and a cold-blooded killer. As the team plummets toward a final confrontation, will they be able to undo time’s unraveling in order to save the human race?

    Revised edition: this edition of Toward Yesterday includes editorial revisions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 16, 2016
    ISBN9781511328951
    Toward Yesterday
    Author

    Paul Antony Jones

    A native of Cardiff, Wales, Paul Antony Jones now resides near Las Vegas, Nevada, with his wife. He has worked as a newspaper reporter and commercial copywriter, but his passion is penning fiction. A self-described science geek, he’s a voracious reader of scientific periodicals and a fan of things mysterious, unknown, and on the fringe. That fascination inspired the Extinction Point series, which follows heroine Emily Baxter’s journey into the bizarre new alien world that Earth has become.

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    • 4/5
      Overall, I liked the book, but one that that bothered me is its schizophrenic nature. When it starts out, it seems like it is going to be a story about the characters, but it ends up being more about the science fiction. I did enjoy both aspects, but it felt like I read two separate books.

      Not quite what I was expecting, given the "What would you do if you had the chance to undo all your mistakes?" question at the top of the description of the book. That's really only lightly touched upon, since everything is pretty much automatically undone by the very nature of everyone going back 25 years.

      And, I felt that the religious aspect wasn't really explored much. It just felt kind of stereotyped instead of fleshed out. The epilog kind of contradicted earlier descriptions of "life after death," which didn't help with the religious aspect.

      I felt there should have been at least one character story line where a couple LOST a child because of the slip. To lose one or more teenagers that can never be born again would be devastating to many. It would also bring up some interesting religious angles.
    • 4/5
      Towards Yesterday is a PA book with a twist – time travel.Imagine your life now, your relationships, your job, your life. Now, imagine you are suddenly thrown back 25 years, retaining all your knowledge and memories, but you’re 25 years younger. People that have died in the last 25 years are alive again, people born in the last 25 years no longer exist.James Bastion is writing his memoirs on New Year’s Eve, when he is suddenly thrust 25 years into the past. The world is understandably thrown into chaos….and this is where the science comes into the story. Now, I’ll be honest, the science behind these books isn’t always my thing, and in Towards Yesterday, I confess I skimmed….but it doesn’t detract from the story, and the great characters (the 6 year old scientist is one of my favourites!)There is a religious element to this book, but it is important to the story, and isn’t too ‘in your face’. There’s also a rather spooky serial killer, a revived priest and a good female protagonist.It is a shame that the book isn’t a little longer, and didn’t delve more into the way that travelling back in time affected the world, and individual people in it, but this story is more centered on a central group.Overall I highly recommend this book, it does have the science behind the fiction, and is unique in the Post Apocalyptic genre