Title: The Time Torch
Author: Dermot Bradley
Type: Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 288
Rating: 6/10
Dermot Bradley – The Time Torch
Disclaimer: While I aim to be unbiased, I received a copy of this for free to review.
I’m not really sure what to make of this – it was noted in the acknowledgements that this book has been proofread at least twice, but I still think it could do with some further editing and proofreading, as well as a more imaginative cover. After all, the possibilities are virtually endless, and the current cover doesn’t do much for me – at the very least, I think the time on the clock tower could have changed.
Once you get past that, though, this is actually a pretty good book – I certainly enjoyed it, and so I feel bad for leaving a low rating, but I couldn’t get past the typos, the design and the layout. Loosely speaking, it follows the story of a guy who has a ‘time torch’, which allows him to see into the past but not to change it. It’s a pretty good interpretation of the grandfather paradox, and also a decent thriller once all hell breaks loose.
And one of the good things about it was that I whizzed through it – I wouldn’t have bothered to finish reading it, and thus discover that it had a decent story line, if it hadn’t been for the fact that I tore through it in a couple of days. I’d hesitate before actually recommending this, but I do think that you could do a lot worse. If you like time travel and espionage stuff, then check this out – bonus points for the author, for citing Asimov’s The End of Eternity.
A clock
