Wednesday, 6 September 2017

AUTHOR FAVOURITES: TIMELAPSE by LORRIE FARRELLY

Lorrie Farrelly is the award-winning author of not only westerns but romance, time travel, suspense and paranormal books. She tells me her favourite of her non-western books is TIMELAPSE, an alternate-reality, time-travel romantic thriller.



The two protagonists start falling in love whilst attempting to prevent a terrible crime from taking place - a crime that plunged both their worlds into nightmare and occurred over a hundred years before. To have a future, they will have to find their way back to 1902.



Here’s my 4 Star review of TIMELAPSE on Amazon.co.uk and Goodreads:

'An ingenious plot fuels a gripping tale

Alex is a young college professor in Washington DC, who has closed himself off from the world after a personal tragedy. Suddenly he finds himself transported to an alternative 2010, where the U.S.A. has become a repressive dictatorship policed by brutal storm troopers. Alex rescues a young woman rebel – Jessie – from their clutches. He discovers a reason to live again, through his growing attraction to Jessie. But then he finds a cause worth dying for. It seems an assassin’s bullet in 1902 set America on the path to oppression. Can Alex leap backwards through time – as he leaped sideways – and prevent the assassination ever happening, change history and save his country? He decides to risk it, and then Jessie decides to come along…

Lorrie Farrelly creates vulnerable and damaged but still likable characters you can care about, and plunges them into one perilous adventure after another. An ingenious plot fuels a gripping, fast-paced tale, dystopian sci-fi that also manages to reflect our own troubled times.'

Thinking of a love story against a backcloth of time travel and changing-history-to-change-the-future scenarios I naturally thought of THE TERMINATOR,


but also of 2 TV gems from the 60s: STAR TREK’S ‘The City on the edge of Forever


Joan Collins & William Shatner in STAR TREK’S ‘The City on the edge of Forever

and the brilliant OUTER LIMITS episode ‘The Man who was never born.’ 




Shirley Knight & Martin Landau in The Man who was never born.’

TIMELAPSE is a winning medallist in the 2014 READERS' FAVOURITE BOOK AWARDS.
Reviewers: 
‘Lorrie Farrelly is an incredible writer. This is such a remarkable novel… This novel greatly moved me.’
‘Lorrie Farrelly… has done a marvellous job of describing a world gone crazy.’


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