by Nancy Moser
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Book Description
In this follow-up to the Christie Award-winning "Time Lottery," three more contestants are faced with onerous choices about their future when they win the opportunity to visit their past.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 What decision in your life do you regret? Would you change it if you could?, 2008-07-03
I was in the middle of reading an incredible book about time travel called Replay by Ken Grimwood when I ran across Second Time Around by Nancy Moser at Mardels. This book is a sequel to the award winning Time Lottery, which I haven't read. The premise is this: A company called Time Lottery Incorporated has developed a method for you to mentally go into your past and make a different decision than one you originally made. Time travel is both incredibly interesting and completely unrealistic, so for a book like this to work, the author has to set reasonable ground rules and then not break them. Moser does this exceptionally well. The winners of the Time Lottery will get to go back in time to a specific moment where they made a wrong choice. They will be able to make a different choice, yet they will have no idea they are time traveling or have a totally different life in the future. After a certain amount of time living in the past, they will have to make the choice if they want to stay in their alternate time or come back to the present.
There are three lucky winners to the lottery this time around. Vanessa Caldwell is fifty and not happy. She is in a loveless marriage and can't communicate with her daughter. Her father has controlled her for her entire life and forbidden contact with her mother since she was a teenager. Her mother has recently died and Vanessa longs for a chance to find out what her mother was like.
Lane Holloway is a world famous actress who secrety despises all the trappings that go with the fame. She wonders what life would be like if she never went to that audition that made her famous.
David Stancowsky is a 74 year old architect who never married. In 1956, his fiance died in a car wreck after running away from him and an argument he caused. He's never forgiven himself. What if he could prevent the car wreck and his fiance's death?
Each person is able to go back and make a different choice. Of course, the new choice leads to a bunch of other consequences, some good, some bad. Friends and family from the present must face the possibility of their loved ones never returning.
I really enjoyed this book. There are plenty of twists and turns regarding the motivations and true character of the characters in this book. You don't need to read Time Lottery to enjoy this novel, but I perhaps which I had because Second Time Around may contain a few spoilers. This book doesn't pack the punch the the above mentioned Replay did for me, but it does make me wonder if there are any decisions I would like to change in my life. Like most people, I'm sure there are, but if I were to have the opportunity, then it might just ruin everything I have now. That's Moser's message, I think. We only have one life. Enjoy it. Make the most if it. Be thankful for everything God has given you.
I urge Christian fiction readers who may be turned off by the time travel element not to worry. The time travel is just a premise to examine real life and the choices we must make.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 Excellent sequel! Wish there were more..., 2008-04-29
This was an excellent book! I expected that the sequel would have more of a "been-there, done-that" feel, as the premise was already set, but it was fresh, new... and perhaps even better than the original Time Lottery. I will have to go back and reread the first book to figure that out. But anyway, it was a very good book, and not as predictable as I thought it would be. Who would choose to come back? It's not certain at all until the end.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
Couldn't put it down!, 2008-04-11
This was definitely a "page-turner." The characters are lovable and their lives interesting. Any reader familiar with the 50s-80s will feel a nostalgia as the characters revisit these decades. Moser's theory of traveling back via memories and living an "alternity" is fascinating.
One small issue I had was the author's portrayal of the character of Cheryl (from the first book). The attractive Cheryl is supposed to be charismatic and popular in the public eye -- the current public eye (2000s). So why is she calling people "bucko," a term I've barely heard since Richie Cunningham on Happy Days? In addition, Moser's attempts at making the Cheryl sound witty in front of the camera fell short. It just wasn't believable.
The refusal of every Christian character to have premarital relations with his or her significant other was ideal and Biblical, but painfully (albeit unfortunately) unrealistic -- at least where statistics are concerned. It would have been best just to leave it out entirely, rather than make such a big issue of it.
Overall, however, this book was a wonderful read. Both the first book and this one would make fabulous movies.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Excellent Read , 2006-05-06
I enjoyed the Second Time Around even more that the first book, Time Lottery - most likely because the stage is already set. Fast paced, great characters, wonderful plot lines. I hope the author writes another book or two for this series. A great summer or vacation read!
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