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I have to say that despite my list of annoyances - it always seems to be easier to list what I don't like - I did still quite enjoy this book. I gave it 7/10.
What do people think of alternate universe books in general? This was the third one I read recently. One was All Our Wrong Todays which missed out to this in the vote, and then The Versions of Us which was a Sliding Doors style parallel narratives (3 versions of a couple's lives).
I think I quite like the AU ones where something in the world is different - whether or not it was changed by time-travel etc or that's just the world we're given in the book. It's fun to speculate on the changes and of course "be careful what you wish for" is a perennial theme.
I'm less sure about the more personal, this is what might have happened to us, stories.
The other one I read a while back was Time and Time Again by Ben Elton which is a story about trying to prevent the First World War by time travel. That's a good read.
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