Crouch, however, went inward, by proposing the possibility that we could use our own memories to be propelled back to any point in our lives. Time travel is often portrayed as an external process, relying on Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, which teased the notion that space and time could be bent to create a wormhole or vortex. I didn’t think I could go down a more twisted rabbit hole than when I read Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter, but he simply blew my mind with Recursion. The time-travel aspect is lightly done, but with a twist that literally leaves you gasping. In typical Koontz fashion, Lightning weaves together a plethora of elements-heroism, heartbreak, love, humor, and plenty of bad guys. From the first page, I was plunged into a not-so-natural phenomenon of flashing lightning in the middle of a snowstorm, from which a mystery man emerges and becomes inexplicably linked to the life of the main character, Laura. I was not shocked that after he finally succeeded, the novel was wildly successful. The moment I read Lightning, I fell in love with the characters and the story’s complexity, so I was shocked to later learn that Dean Koontz actually had to fight to get this book published. Whether time travel is being used to wrap a mystery in an extra, innovative layer or is allowing readers to view humanity and history through a different lens, the theme is brilliantly done in the books that I’ve listed below. As women then were second-class citizens without the ability to even vote, not only does she have to deal with personal obstacles, but she also cannot tap into her usual arsenal of forensic tools to solve crimes. In my own In Time mystery series, I’ve enjoyed the fish-out-of-water sensation that my main character-a modern-day woman and brilliant FBI agent-experiences after being tossed back to the Regency period in England.
Depending upon how it’s done, it can add to the tension-a race against time as our characters try to return to their own era-or it can allow readers to explore the past through modern eyes.
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