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Need A Little Time by Adam Eccles, A Review

Sometimes, the strangest things can happen, right on your doorstep.

When you find out your best friend and business partner is secretly sleeping with your wife, it may be time to move on.... From your job and your marriage.... Which is precisely what happened to Jamie Newgent.

A change of lifestyle is what’s needed, and a bachelor pad on the fourth floor of a jutting tower provides a new home, a fresh start, and a new chapter in his life.

Little does he know of the weird and wonderful journey he’s about to take, or the effects a temporal rift has on the building plumbing and his troublesome toaster.

He’s living in the middle of an anomaly sandwich, with a retro woman upstairs, and a feisty hippy downstairs. But will either of them become anything more than friends?

And, If it came down to it, would he be able to make the ultimate sacrifice to save a life:

Could he go back to an era before the internet and smartphones?


This story was a great little adventure that didn't cause me tremendous anxiety throughout. Lately I'm so glad to have been discovering books like this that while they are adventurous and intriguing, they are also gentle and not catastrophically heart pounding thrillers that are way over the top.

With this story it's about a man who suffers tremendous heartache that pulled me into his woes. But every time he thought about all the anger and sadness it brought him, Jamie managed to sort out his own head and I was glad whenever he pulled through his doubts. That's real strength. Sometimes it's not about strong superheroes in fiction, it's about emotional pull-through.

I liked how subtle the time-travel was. The reader isn't just thrown into Marvel movie style time travel full of zinging lights and mind-bending zaps whooshing down psychedelic kaleidoscopes. I mean yes I love Marvel for what it is. Absolutely I love Marvel to the max! But the time-travel aspect in this story was very gentle and it suited the book perfectly.

Jamie is a tech nerd so the type of time travel in this story is suitably scientific, not mystical or magical as in Outlander and the like. And that suits the plot perfectly.

I listened to the audiobook version of this novel and the narrator has quite a quirky voice that works really well. He also does great accents.

The ending is neat and tidy, just the way I like a story to be. I do love happy endings.

Five of five stars. I highly recommend.

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