(An audio version of this will appear on the book review Podcast series Reading in Bed - available at all the usual places at the start of January 2022.)
BLURB:
The concluding installment of the acclaimed time-travel novel.
To read the first installment, search for 'The '86 Fix' on Amazon.
After his miraculous weekend in 1986, Craig Pelling returned to a future he could never have envisaged. Even by his own hapless standards, his plans have spectacularly backfired. Everything he tried to fix is now broken, and a bleak, lonely existence is all Craig has to look forward to. Does he face that future, or does he try to seek answers? Either way, an emotional rollercoaster ride beckons. Can Craig can find closure before it ends? Or does fate have a few more twists in store for him, beyond Broadhall?
STRENGTHS:
This is the sequel to the 86 Fix also by the same author, and as has stated previously, you simply have to read the first part in the series to really get the feel for the series.
Like with the first series, I did find this a easy to read series which I generally did enjoy.
About this book, it follows on from the 86 Fix as a middle aged man called Craig Pelling wakes back up in 2016 after attempting to change the past of 1986 only to realise when he wakes back up only to discover literally he has somewhat dropped himself straight proving the saying the grass isn’t always greener on the other side in the process messing up the lives of quite a few people, not all of which live to tell the tale.
I did enjoy his battles with the Job Centre when he wakes up in this alternative world, and the introductions of a few new characters who I won’t name and his now girlfriend, all of which really added something to the narrative.
The use of the father was my fav add to the book as in the first book he was very unsympathic – a nice touch there.
WEAKNESSES:
Personally when Craig went back to 1986 again and then the modern day world, it was all a bit rushed if I am honest, perhaps some of the sections in the alternative world seemed a bit too drawn out etc.
Also there was evidence of the book not being proof read proper
"It would be amiss of me" – "remiss" somebody else on Good Reads said.
Somebody also said “There’s also a scattering of bear/bare errors. It is also annoying that no one drinks/downs/gulps/anything—they “neck” it. They always “neck” it. “
CONCLUSION:
Not a perfect book and I don’t think was anywhere as near as good as the 1st book but it had heart, and while I saw the twists coming up, it was a easy read and fun.
8/10
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