Jenny is a lonely university lecturer who’s consciousness has traveled back in time to her younger body to try to save the future of the world. A young microbiologist is going to release a genetically modified wheat that will mutate and ultimately destroy all plant life, leaving nothing but barren windswept dust bowls. In the past, Jenny finds a love that has been missing from her life; the kind … kind that comes just once in a lifetime. But Jenny can only stay in that time period for thirty-three days. Meanwhile, in the future, fearful Jenny will fail, plans are made to send another back in time–an assassin. How can she choose between saving the man she loves or saving the future?
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Jenny, a university lecturer, is given an opportunity to travel back in time and stop a microbiologist from releasing a genetically modified wheat, thus saving the world from destruction. She is transported back in time thirty-three years into her own younger body. Time is of the essence as she only has thirty-three days to convince the young microbiologist to scrap his wheat. While back in the past, she meets and falls in love with Iain. As the days tick by, the more Jenny doesn’t want to leave. She’s running out of time and future generations are counting on her. She has a choice: save the future or save the man she loves. Will she choose love or obligation?
A friend of mine told me about this book and she said I had to read it. She knows how much I love time travel, especially when there’s romance thrown in. From the first page, I connected with Jenny and her plight. It was easy for me to believe this could happen in real life, given the current environmental state of our planet. There’s a definite race against the clock feel but it wasn’t overly done. The author paces the plot with breaks between the action.
What sealed this book as a must-read for me is the romance between Jenny and Iain. The strength of their devotion for one another touched me deeply. I know this sounds cliché but I’m wary of men who write romance. A male’s perspective is vastly different than a woman’s but in Thirty-Three Days, I was so engrossed in the story, I completely forgot it was written by a man. Emotional, heartfelt and beautiful, Thirty-Three Days is a must-read fantasy romance. Highly recommend!
Disclaimer: I received a copy from the author in the hopes I’d review it.
My Rating: 5 stars
I can’t even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this book. The concept is SO unique, and the author does an excellent job of building tension, by keeping the pace nice and even. I loved the multiple points-of-view, and I genuinely did not know how the conflict would be resolved until the very-very end. The science is solid, and the time travel is explained in a very believable (and unusual!) way. I just loved-loved-loved the whole book!
If you ignore all the scientific stuff this story is all about true love. It is about parental love between Iain and his son Brad. The love unfaltering love between Iain and Jen. It is also the love that they also showed for the earth and mankind. Everything that was done in the story was done with underlying thought of love as its base. It is a gut wrenching story of the choices you will make to save the people and the things you love.
this was actually a really great book! . she goes back in time to change the future. only you should never mess with the future. plus she finds the love she never had.
This is a unique story about a woman who goes back in time to save the world. It was part action and thriller part getting a second change, part historic, part preventing the end of the human race. I am a bit torn as how to review this book as I don’t want to give too much away.
Jenny is set to save the world from a devastating disaster that is human made. I enjoyed Jenny and her attributes and the plot of the story was good, but I think there was too much going on that I had a hard time connecting to the entire book. I liked the idea that Jenny only had thirty three days to complete whatever her goal was (love or the world) and I liked the action that came with some of the plot ideas. I also think this book is well written. The ending was good, I might have chosen differently… maybe?! LOL.
It’s a great story but I felt like there was something missing. I cannot put my finger on it but it feels a bit incomplete but that is purely personal.
When you start reading you think this is time travel story about saving the world from extinction but soon find out its so much more. Loved the way the story has twists and turns and kept you on an emotional ride and turning those pages. I found the book to be well written and well thought out with some truly interesting (and loveable) characters.
I liked the characters and the idea of sending a series of Leapers back in time to save the Earth. However, I would have enjoyed this more without the sex scenes. I felt that they took away from the flow of the story
Going in I thought the primary focus for this book would be time travel and microbiology. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of those two things as well as so much more. This author illustrates friendship and love quite thoroughly.
Great
This is my first book read of this author and it didn’t disappoint me one bit. The characters are likable and believable, the story flows and the writing and story are great.
Stephen B King is a master of storytelling. This is a tale of fate versus choice and that, in the end, what we do now effects the future of others both on a personal and global stage. A twist on the time travel theme, it’s a story of a woman who “travels” back in time to save the world, but ends up saving herself on a very personal and emotional level. I loved this book and was sad to see it end. Bravo!
This review refers to the audiobook narrated by Geoffrey Boyes.
What an interesting combination of ecological disaster, time-travel, and romance. The Australian narrator does a lovely job, lending an almost cozy tone to the story.
Jenny, a 68-year-old university instructor, accepts a perilous mission: a drug-induced trip back in time that sends her current consciousness into her own 35-year-old body for exactly 33 days. Her mission: convince an idealistic young scientist not to introduce a strain of genetically modified wheat he’s working on. If she fails, a mutation over 200 years in the future will wipe out all plant life on the earth. A passionate environmentalist, she’s willing to take the risk. What she didn’t count on was falling in love with the young man’s father. The trouble is, when she wakes up from her time-travel journey, both her younger self and older self will forget what happened.
The countdown element lends tension for both the romance thread and the disaster thread. However, it’s not a constant gut-churning race. The author gives us breathers as Jenny takes time to enjoy her temporary new life: new friendships and new passions (not just the romance, but also soccer, food, and even books). Jenny learns a great deal about herself and resets her priorities during this brief stay in her younger body.
Readers expecting a fast-paced thriller might be disappointed, as the author alternates between high-stress scenes and slower, cozier scenes. For my taste, this worked very well, especially in audiobook format. The narrator’s pleasant voice and skilled delivery (even during the juicy love scenes) pulled me in, and during the final two hours I growled at my poor husband whenever he tried to interrupt. We had a world to save—a relationship, too!
Not sure which genre the ending would fall into, dystopian or romantic, I braced myself for the worst. Without resorting to spoilers, I can only say I was delighted with how it all came together.
Thirty-Three Days – This is my first read by this author. I was impressed by his writing style, his storylines and his belief in love. There is time travel but there is a heavy emphasis on the importance of love and finding your love. The many emotions that the time traveler experiences during her thirty-three days of traveling back thirty-three years to her 35-year-old self in order to stop the destruction of the world over two hundred years into the future is mesmerizing.
While the time travel is important and shares in the storylines, the story of the traveler and her experiences and discoveries about love and wasted life had me immersed in the story. If you ever seen Met Joe Black and enjoyed his introduction to love, then you’ll understand that this story has that innocence and more. Needs some editing but does not interfere with the flow of the story; most readers probably will not notice. I found this book on Booksprout. 5*
Thirty Three Days is a timeless love story. Beautifully written, I fell in love with the characters immediately. Jenny and Iain are the perfect couple that I cheered for throughout the book. Even Iain’s son Brad is adorable. The obstacle that Jenny faces is quite difficult: Choosing love over literally saving mankind. Stephen B. King did an extraordinary task of writing and showing the depth of the couple’s love and respect for each other and, also, exploring the conceivable concept of a plant disease destroying the world’s food supply. And King added a third dimension of time travel. Bravo! I had to jump to the last page once because I couldn’t stand the suspense any longer. I am not normally a lover of time travel science fiction stories, but the intriguing plot didn’t feel like a typical sci-fi book. It’s definitely a blend of romance and science creating a truly satisfying story.