Meet Jake Epping, ordinary high school English teacher. Meet
Al Templeton, owner of the local diner and creator the infamous Fat Burger.
Their plan? To go back in time and stop the JFK assassination. When the two
discover a mysterious time-travel portal at the back of Al’s diner that opens
onto 1958, it seems like a chance to become the heroes who saved history. The
only problem is that the assassination doesn’t take place until 1963, and so
whoever makes the jump will have to wait five years to stop the crime. Jake
reluctantly agrees to be the one to go back, but soon finds that life follows
you wherever—or whenever—you go.
This was the first Stephen King book I’ve ever read and I
definitely thoroughly enjoyed it. It alternates between dramatic action scenes
and much slower descriptions of the mundane life Jake builds for himself in “the
land of ago.” Both were compelling, though in very different ways. Though the
slow parts drag a little bit in places (as you might expect from an 800-page
novel), they do a great job developing the characters so that when you get to
the action scenes you’re really invested. I loved Jake’s romantic interest and
all of his friends and students, and so when protecting JFK started to threaten
those relationships I was genuinely distraught. I listened to the audiobook on
this one and I thought the narrator was excellent. He really brought Jake
Epping to life for me and made the whole book fly by.
LLK
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