Published October 28, 2014 by Red Adept Publishing
With her senior year looming, Tess McKinnon has two goals:
hanging out with her best friend, Liz, and avoiding her judgmental, alcoholic
mother. Then yummy John Bartley arrives—to tell Mrs. McKinnon that her daughter
is dead. Distinctly still alive, Tess is baffled by John’s tales of 1800s time
travel, rewritten lives, and love. She knows she’s never seen him before, but
her feelings refuse to be denied.
When Tess and John discover an aged newspaper clipping that indicates John’s uncle was hanged for Tess’s murder in 1875, John decides to return to his time to save his uncle’s life, but when Tess checks the article after John’s departure, she is horrified to discover that John has been hanged instead.
Armed with determination and modern ingenuity, Tess must abandon her past and risk her future for a chance to catch her own killer and find her first love for the second time.
When Tess and John discover an aged newspaper clipping that indicates John’s uncle was hanged for Tess’s murder in 1875, John decides to return to his time to save his uncle’s life, but when Tess checks the article after John’s departure, she is horrified to discover that John has been hanged instead.
Armed with determination and modern ingenuity, Tess must abandon her past and risk her future for a chance to catch her own killer and find her first love for the second time.
My Thoughts…
Time travel, the thing some of us dream of. All the Butterflies in the World is a twist
on time travel. Not only can Tess in
2009 go back to 1875 but John from 1875 can travel to 2009. The hitch is that John always arrives on the
same day. What a cool idea. Rodney Jones wrote a time travel book that
is not so sci-fi like that it is hard to believe and follow. I loved how confused both John and Tess are
when they arrive in the past/future.
Rodney does a great job getting right into the differences between the
two worlds and how they affect the characters.
Seeing John and Tess struggle to fit in and adjust proved just how
advanced the world has become and how spoiled we all are with the technology
available. I found it interesting how
it ended and thought it would be the other way (this will make more sense when
you read the book.)
I find myself struggling to write this review, only because
I loved the book and do not want to give too much away. I was lucky enough to read the first book
in this series, The Sun, the Moon and Maybe the Trains, first and I do
recommend you start with that first as it will let you connect better with the
characters and understand better the whole time travel thing. I enjoyed that the time travel aspect was
not the entire story, the characters and the settings are the true story. I love the differences between Tess’s house
and world and John’s house and world and how nonjudgmental both characters were
of each other. There was a lot of
curiosity but not jealousy.
I definitely recommend this book, both of them, to anyone
looking for a fun read. I have already
recommended them to my book club and cannot wait to see how they like
them.
Book Links
Here is a peak at book one of this series....
Overview:
What would it take to convince you that the woods you just
left is a hundred and forty-four years distant from the one you entered?
Ten years have passed since the Civil War broke up John
Bartley's family. Living with his aunt and uncle in the tiny village of
Greendale, Vermont, isn't filled with excitement for a seventeen-year-old.
Until John walks into the woods one day and stumbles into
2009...
Fortunately, he chances upon the outspoken Tess McKinnon. To
earn her trust, he must first convince her that he is neither a lunatic nor a
liar. The proof he needs is buried at the end of a mountain road, where the
ruins of Greendale lie just beneath a layer of dead leaves and moss.
What became of his home? Why is there no record of its
existence?
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