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Mike Chen has confounded me with this tale of time travel and what it means to have/be family. At times, I railed at the main character for giving up on (character name and relationship redacted for spoiler reasons) as I felt he could have maybe tipped (character) off and possibly saved (pronoun). Did Kin give up too easily? Did he resolve himself get back into the formerly established relationship too quickly? What was he DOING?! My heart hurt for him, for his family, for his daughter. I was worried about the women in his life, in this story, being...disposable/replaceable. The old trope where women die to further the plot. You have to get all the way through this book to see how delicately the relationships and how deeply personal and important each character is, no matter how little ‘screen time’ they get. While reading this book, I laughed, I nearly cried, I stayed up all night on my Kindle app reading. I fell in love with the characters and was relieved at their flaws and the earnestness with which the author wrote them. It would have been easy to write each person with slightly less depth, and make tragic tropes out of them all. In this main character, I saw a flawed man, but one who would do almost anything to save/help/love his family. I’m a little pissed the author has made me like a story that I would have rejected if I read a cliff notes or skeletal outline of...dude goes back to his first (person name and relationship redacted) How Soon After?! And tries to make everything fine...? This review won’t make much sense until after you’ve read it. Go read it. You’ll see what I mean.

TL;DR ~ A time traveling family man fights all odds to save his daughter who should never have been born according to the rules, juggling relationships, obligations and danger between two different lives: past and present.


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Here and Now and Then A Novel Mike Chen 9780778369042 Books Reviews

This a slow-burn kind of book that takes a bit too long to hook you. When it does hook you, you'll realize it's because of the MC, not the plot or worldbuilding. A little more information on the daughter/wife was needed throughout the book because I almost forgot at one point who was the daughter and who was the wife. In other words, the relationships needed more detail/work. The worldbuilding itself had some inconsistencies in pacing (how much we were given and when). Based on the author's blog, I'm going to assume this was caused by some publishers wanting more worldbuilding and others wanting less. I will read more by this author, as I can see a lot of room for growth and maturity in the writing.
Here and Now and Then is an incredible, heartfelt sci-fi time travel story about one man learning what’s truly important in life and the depths he will go to so that is family is safe and happy.

It’s 2142 and Kin Stewart is a time agent, tasked by the UN time police to go back and stop criminals and mercenaries from trying to mess with the past for personal gain. When a mission goes wrong, he is stranded in the 90s, and left to start a whole new life. But one day, a wife and a daughter later, he ends up back in 2142 away from everything he knows. Kin has to try and reconcile his pre and post 2142 life and decide what he wants from life and what would be best for those he cares about.

Much like Elan Mastai’s All Our Wrong Todays, this is a time travel story that will really stick with me for a long time. What Mike Chen has created here is so full of character and familial love - a father willing to do most anything to protect his daughter a century in the past - that the central crux of the story, the actual time travel, is merely incredibly fun window dressing to the true message of the story. Life is short (at least for us, here and now), so cherish all the little moments and always be grateful for what you have.

Maybe this story hit me at just the right time, being a semi-new parent to a perfect little daughter, but a story about a man with the willpower and determination to protect his daughter through time and space is kind of perfect, and I think the execution of it was basically flawless.

I loved every single character. Kin is a good man in an impossible situation, out of place no matter what time period he is in, knowing nothing more than he needs to protect his family. Penny, his 2142 wife, is in the exact same boat, yet she faces her new reality with grace and humor. And Miranda, his daughter from the late early 2000s, is so well fleshed out despite so much of the story taking place literally a century away from her.

I did, admittedly, almost have to take a star away from this book because Kin is an Arsenal fan... but I like to think I’m being the bigger person by not rising to that bait.

I truly can’t wait for whatever Mike Chen does next. But, for now, I’m just going to try and appreciate the little moments of life, like how great this book is. 5 stars.
“Here and Now and Then”, by Mike Chen, is about a man named Kin who is a time-traveler. Frankly, that’s about all I needed to know before I pushed the “1-Click” button to purchase.

Kin is a time-travel agent from 2142 (is 42 a nod to Douglas Adams? I hope so!) who gets stuck in 1996 where he lives, works and has a family for 18 years, before...

That's all I wanted to know about the plot so that's all I'll share. But it's interesting to note that in Chen's imagined 2142, there are flying cars, we've fixed the climate, and eradicated racism (because EVERYONE is now mixed), but ageism, sexism, crummy parenting, sibling rivalries, self-involved people, and political corruption, are all alive and well!

HOWEVER, at one point Kin messes with the past which allows two people to escape being killed. Doesn't that alter the time continuum?! It is never addressed, and that bothered me all the way through.

Other time-travel novels I highly recommend

“Replay”, by Ken Grimewood
“11/22/63”, by Stephen King
“Time and Again”, by Jack Finney
“The Time Traveler’s Wife”, by Audrey Niffenegger
"Blackout" and "All Clear". by Connie Willis
Mike Chen has confounded me with this tale of time travel and what it means to have/be family. At times, I railed at the main character for giving up on (character name and relationship redacted for spoiler reasons) as I felt he could have maybe tipped (character) off and possibly saved (pronoun). Did Kin give up too easily? Did he resolve himself get back into the formerly established relationship too quickly? What was he DOING?! My heart hurt for him, for his family, for his daughter. I was worried about the women in his life, in this story, being...disposable/replaceable. The old trope where women die to further the plot. You have to get all the way through this book to see how delicately the relationships and how deeply personal and important each character is, no matter how little ‘screen time’ they get. While reading this book, I laughed, I nearly cried, I stayed up all night on my app reading. I fell in love with the characters and was relieved at their flaws and the earnestness with which the author wrote them. It would have been easy to write each person with slightly less depth, and make tragic tropes out of them all. In this main character, I saw a flawed man, but one who would do almost anything to save/help/love his family. I’m a little pissed the author has made me like a story that I would have rejected if I read a cliff notes or skeletal outline of...dude goes back to his first (person name and relationship redacted) How Soon After?! And tries to make everything fine...? This review won’t make much sense until after you’ve read it. Go read it. You’ll see what I mean.

TL;DR ~ A time traveling family man fights all odds to save his daughter who should never have been born according to the rules, juggling relationships, obligations and danger between two different lives past and present.