This was a highly anticipated read, and it definitely lived up to my expectation. Read from start to finish in less than 24 hours, this book got my totally hooked. My advice would be to go into this story blind (part of the reason I’m excluding a synopsis from this review). Although some of my hunches proved to be true, I was still shocked at some of the reveals. I’ve recently read a few stories that involve time travel, but this is my far the best one yet!

At first, I couldn't put it down but halfway through my head was spinning. The jumping timelines and background details wore me out. Way too much minutia. .I had to skim.
In my opinion, this book was just was way too long.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for an advance reader's copy.

First off good not great book. My reason for the reviewing this book with 3 star rating is that I am not a fan of time traveling thru a story. It makes it confusing and hard to commit to.
Overall story is great.

My first time reading a Gillian McAllister book.
I liked the premise of the book, unfortunately the first 40% of the writing felt slow for me. There is also a lot of time jumping which I could see confusing for some readers mainly because characters have aliases and their names change depending on the time . (At one point I believe the author forgets the time period as one of the characters hadn't started using an alias but was referred to by that name. Then again,perhaps I got confused ?)
I do particularly like the last several chapters. The ends seem to wrap up nicely. Also,the final chapter was a nice way to round out the book; leaving the reader wondering if time loops are a true possibility.
I'd give 2 1/2 stars if I could.

5 stars! One of my favorites of the year no doubt. This book is perfect. I have no critiques. I am blown away.

Russian Doll meets murder mystery meets great characters. Any mystery thriller that can MAKE ME CRY at the end is on a whole other level. Im actually sad to see it end. Perfect for people who loves books with puzzles at their center, but also perfect fans of a twist! It’s got it all folks.

Thanks to NetGalley and the author for a review copy. Check this one out on August 2nd!

This is one of the only 5 stars I have given this year. Initially I felt like it had a slow start, but once I got into it, I could not put it down.

I have never read a book quite like this - where every day is a significant day in the past. It had me guessing until the very end.

A definite must read that I am recommending to everyone!

We just got back from vacation and I was looking for a fast-paced book for the plane rides home. Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister was exactly what I needed!

Here’s what you need to know: It’s late one October evening and Jen is waiting for her teenage son Todd to come home. When she peeks out the window, she sees Todd pull out a knife and murder a stranger. The police come, Todd is hauled off to jail, and Jen is in shock. The next day, Jen wakes up, raring to go fight for her son, only to find him home – AND it’s the day before the murder. As Jen starts living her life in reverse, she has to figure out if she can stop the crime before it happens – and how far back in time she’ll have to go to make a change.

This novel is twisty and suspenseful but it’s also an examination of family, motherhood and secrets. As Jen moves through the past, she sees parts of her life differently and has to reevaluate what really matters. This is great summer reading – a suspenseful story with family at the heart, told in a unique way. I really enjoyed reading it and gasped at a few points when the story took a turn I wasn’t expecting.

Holy cannoli!! WOW!!

Ok I’m going to admit to not entirely reading the synopsis and wanting to read this book simply because it has a wicked cool cover. And now I’ll admit that a good portion of my reads are like that. Have I struck out some? Sure. This is NOT that. And I actually feel like going in blind was the best way to read this.

So I’m not going to give a lot of spoilers. Or any. I WILL tell you that this book got me hooked EARLY. Like, in the first couple pages. And boy, was it a wild ride!

I’ll also tell you that I thought I had it figured out for the longest time, until I didn’t. And then I didn’t know how it was going to end. I’m SO GLAD it ended the way it did though.

Thank you to NetGalley, William Morrow and Company and Gillian McAllister for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review. Wrong Place Wrong Time will be available in the US on August 2nd 2022.

This book was absolutely fabulous. I was on the edge of my seat and didn’t put it down all day. Five stars. Until the last ten pages which almost ruined the whole book for me. Oh well.

This book started out very strongly for me. I was immediately pulled into the story from the first chapter. I’d say it started to fall apart for me around the halfway mark and then it became convoluted and I became disinterested. I appreciate what the author was trying to say but unfortunately I just didn’t care by the time I finished the book. I also predicted some of the twist.

A fascinating way to write a crime thriller. Imagine you witness your teenage son stabbing someone and are powerless to stop it and save him from jail. Now, imagine that when you wake up the next day you have gone back in time to the day before it happened. Jen is desperate to figure out why her son viciously attacked a man in their front yard but as she goes further and further back in time to piece together the five "W"s, she starts to question everyone important in her life. Each chapter goes back in time through a few years so we travel back looking for the same clues that Jen is searching making this perfect for armchair detectives. The tension is high, the timeline is as fixed as the unconditional love Jen feels for her only child and you want to believe that it is all a terrible mistake.
A fast paced crime thriller with the magical twist of time travel that will resonate with even hard core detective story readers. My thanks to the publisher for the advance copy.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced audio book in exchange for an honest review.

4.5 stars

Jen watches from her window as her teenage son stabs a stranger. The next day Jen wakes up and it is the day before the murder. Every day Jen moves back in time as she gathers clues about her life and family on why her son killed someone.

This book was so interesting and a great twist on the usual mystery and time travel story. I highly recommend reading Wrong Place Wrong Time.

Every once in awhile I come across a truly clever and gifted author who constructs a uniquely written book and this is a prime example of such. The protagonist, Jen, witnesses her teenage son murder a man who is a complete stranger to her. Her son is arrested and the next day Jen wakes up expecting the nightmare to continue. Instead, she has gone backwards in time. As each day regresses, Jen seeks to find the answers to why her son murdered this man and why she is reliving her life backwards.

This was exquisitely crafted and I can't imagine how much time and finesse it took to accomplish this original plot. Not many authors could pull this off so successfully. As each chapter progresses, readers and Jen alike are given insight into this overlying and very deeply rooted and complex mystery. The ending is beyond brilliant and will have readers gasping and wanting more.

An unusual and interesting premise, Late one evening Jen is watching as her son Todd head down their street towards home when another man steps out of the shadows and Todd stabs him. When she wakes the next morning Jen finds it’s the day before the crime, and each day she continues to go back in time.

This was such an interesting concept. Jen witnesses her son Todd kill a man on her lawn, and get dragged to the police station. When she wakes up the next day, she's living that day over again. And then she goes back another day. And another. Sometimes she will skip days at a time. It's sort of like Groundhog's Day meets Back to the Future in that regard? With the help of an expert in the concepts of time travel, she realizes that the days she's visiting have some impact, some connection that leads to her son killing the man on their lawn.

There are lots of twists and turns. The reading experience was fun, and the pacing and reveals were well plotted. I don't think more than the overall idea of it will stick with me, but definitely still one that I am excited to share with my readers.

This book is an absolute winner! A full throttle thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire book. I don’t know what I enjoyed more the plot of the characters.

Thanks to NetGalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Wow! I’ve never read a book quite like this one. Rather than progressing forward in time, the plot moves backward from a pivotal event in a mother’s life - the day she sees her son murder someone. The next day, she wakes up, and somehow it’s the day before the murder, then the next day before, and so on. Is there anything she can do to try and stop this event from happening? This took a LOT of twists and turns that I did not expect - every time I’d think “Oh, so that’s the big twist!” Only to be hit with yet another one! Very very good. 4.5 stars

Absolutley lives up to the hype. Gillian McAllister is consistently good, but this is probably ber best yet. A highly recommended first purchase.