Remember Tomorrow By Tricia Merritt Review

Alannah Greer, a community college instructor in her early 30s, lives a fairly stagnant life in Seattle.  Ever since the death of her older brother Zach one year before, in Hong Kong, she has not been able to reconnect with her life.  They had been close, growing up.  Although their adult lives took them in different directions, they managed to maintain the tie until he was run over by a taxi while crossing busy Hennessey Road in the shopping district Causeway Bay.  The story begins with a mysterious e-mail from Benson, Zach's surviving/widowered partner in Hong Kong.  Zach didn't have to die, Benson says.  He asks her to come to Hong Kong as soon as possible, and -- somewhat against her better judgment -- she decides to go.
Then her plane crashes in flight, and she unexpectedly transports herself back to the departure lounge at Sea/Tac Airport.  She had no idea she could do anything like this.  It happened like a reflex.  It doesn't take her long to discover that she has gone back in time to the point just before she left. 

 

 

The book targets the same readership, mainly twentysomething women, who have made the Twilight books, the Southern Vampire books, and the Anita Blake novels popular.  Time travel, the focus of this story, hasn't turned into its own industry yet.  There's no shortage of vampire novels, but little has been written about time travel since The Time Traveler's Wife.  In Remember Tomorrow, Alannah comes of age and comes to power in a deeply unfamiliar setting.  There is a romance with Colin, although it is fairly ephemeral.  We have left the door open for (and begun to plot) sequels, which we believe will add to the appeal. Gary is an antagonist with his own justification, and in his own mind, his actions make sense.  We have done our best to avoid making him a cartoon-character villain, evil simply for the sake of giving us a bad guy to exterminate in a creative way.  The Hong Kong setting will also differentiate the book from most others currently being published in the US, and ought to attract interest from overseas readers as well. 

Remember Tomorrow

By: Tricia Merritt 
Published By: Typhoon Media Ltd
Published: Dec 05, 2010 
ISBN # 9789881953469
Categories: Time-travel Chick Lit Thriller

My Thoughts
I have always been a fan of time travel but sometimes like anything else, it gets overdone. Some authors can write about time travel as if it really is a thing that we can do. In Remember Tomorrow, Tricia Merritt has a little different spin to the term time travel. The main character of the story, Alannah Greer, is a young woman mourning the death of her brother. Zach Greer was hit and killed by a car, leaving behind a significant other and a sister to mourn him.

Alannah receives a call from Benson, who is Zachs partner. He would like her to come to Hong Kong as soon as she can, en route she is thrown back in time to avoid being killed when the plane that crashes. This is her first attempt, unbeknownst to her, at time travel. Scares the daylights out of her, but as she becomes used to the idea that she can do this, she tries doing it again. Benson assumed she was dead but was not overly surprised to find out that she survived the crash. Her brother also had the ability to time travel at will. 

Now comes the fun part, once Alannah gets to Hong Kong, she finds that Benson thinks that she is able to go back in time and change the circumstances to before her brother is killed. Will she succeed?? Why was her brother killed in the first place? Was it an accident or did someone really want Zach dead. All these questions are answered as the novel moves along at a fast pace to it's conclusion.

I really enjoyed this novel and I think that anyone who loves a good time travel story will like it too...

I received an ebook copy of Remember Tomorrow for review from publicist at Scarlet Storm Press imprint of Typhoon Media Ltd in Hong Kong and was not monetarily compensated for my review, good or bad.