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Time travel is quickly working its way up my favorite genres list, and I absolutely loved how it operated in Backward Glass. Kenny's family moves into an old house that has been rumored to be haunted, since there's tales of a mad man in the woods surrounding it and several kids had gone missing over the years. But Kenny soon learns the truth behind these rumors: there's a mirror that allows you to travel back and forth in time, and sometimes you don't come back. The story doesn't start with a mirror though. It actually begins with finding a dead baby shoved in a wall. Morbid? Most definitely. Intriguing? Heck yes! Now Kenny (and the other mirror kids) are on a mission to discover who the dead baby is and save it, wherever in time it may be.

While I did really enjoy all of the science fiction aspects and the excitement of Backward Glass, I was hoping that the whole dead baby thing would just be the catalyst that gets the story rolling. I didn't really want the whole thing to be centered around saving some mystery infant from times long past, but in the last third or so, this definitely becomes the case. There's a pregnant girl in the past who wants Kenny's help, and Kenny tries to play hero, and there's old fashioned childbirth and ew. No thanks! I was much more interested in the creepy skipping rhyme about Prince Harming, who is somehow involved with the mirror and the dead baby. The variations on the rhyme and the tale are weird and kept me reading, especially when Prince Harming actually makes an appearance. He's definitely not what me or Kenny were expecting.

The actual time traveling set up is awesome! There's no crazy, intense, complicated quantum physics in Backward Glass. The mirror is actually very simple and we're told all of the rules along the way. The basic idea is that you go in and come out 10 years in the past, then you can go back to your own time when you're ready. However, travelers can also do a kind of chain to get further past or even into the future. Eventually other more complicated stuff gets introduced and my head started spinning, but over all I loved all of this. Kenny gets to meet a bunch of other characters who help him on his mission; my favorite being John Wald from 17th century Scotland.

In the end, I liked Backward Glass a lot. It started to lose me towards the end when the whole baby saving mission came back to the foreground. Babies gross me out, so yeah. I would have enjoyed it much more if that Prince Harming legend had played a larger role and was the main focus. I loved visiting all of the different time periods, particularly the 80s! Kenny's crash course into Nintendo and Star Wars was hilarious!

*Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher through NetGalley for review. No compensation was offered or accepted.


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Backward Glass David Lomax Books Reviews

Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales

Quick & Dirty One mirror, every ten years a kid is picked, but not older than 17, and time traveling begins.

Opening Sentence “Here’s what you need to know You’re my son and you’re something like negative twenty-two, because that’s how long it will be before you’re born.”

The Review

Kenny is 14 when his parents buy this old house that is a total fixer upper, and while cleaning out the place and checking everything out he stumbles across a dead baby and a note with several names on it, including his. He also finds some other notes and carvings that lead him to believe he can travel through the mirror, but he isn’t interesting in testing that theory until the night he meets Luka. The girl from 1987, and she explains the rules he wrote. Every ten years the mirror picks a kid and they can go backward, when they return home they can pull the kid from the past forward and after midnight you can always get home. Once the mirror chooses you, you can always travel through the mirror no matter your age.

Soon Kenny, Luka, Jimmy and the others begin a journey to save the dead baby, and try to stop Prince Harming. Along the way Kenny ends up trapped in the past with Peggy and Lilly, and they begin figuring out the connections between them and who the baby is. Kenny also begins to workout making doorstops that allow them to travel 30 years back instead of just ten, and that keys allow for longer jumps forwards and backwards.

He also finds out that sometimes no matter how hard you try to help, you just can’t undo things and sometimes it’s your messing around that causes problems. Will Kenny be able to save the baby and figure out who Prince Harming is so he can stop him from hurting his new friends?

This book was a total gem, and I was more than a little sad when I found that it’s not part of any series or trilogy. I was sucked in and reading from the moment Kenny started figuring everything out. I had to know what was going to happen. I will say in some places if you aren’t paying attention you can get confused because as with anything concerning time travel, it can get crazy if you aren’t really reading. That being said, I loved the world building and I loved the discovery process, and the connections. It was so amazing to see how this mirror picked kids randomly, but along the way you find it isn’t that random.

The mystery itself wasn’t that hard to figure out once the story gets going, but the suspense of confirming it really keeps you invested, and wrapping your head around who Prince Harming is totally feels like a reward at the end. I enjoyed every minute of this book and can only wish there was more. Seriously, I do wish for more, not because the end wasn’t satisfying, but because it was just that good.

Notable Scenes

“If I went out there, and nothing happened, my ticket into the story I had been living in my head would turn out to be a forgery I had made myself.”

“The last thing I heard in 1987 before I shoved my face into iced molasses sounded like a slap.”

“In every decade we could, there seemed to be nothing more than rumors and legends.”

“You’ll go down the backward glass.”

“It didn’t even register at first that he had shot me.”

“I guessed he made a pretty decent wise old man, though I had been hoping for a little more wisdom about the way the force worked and how to handle a light saber.”

FTC Advisory Flux provided me with a copy of Backward Glass. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
I love time-travel stories, but it's been a while since one has truly surprised me. There are only so many turns they can have. Or so it seemed until Lomax invented a whole trunkful of new ones, producing maybe the twistiest time-travel story I've read.

A great time-travel story, a great story.
I strongly recommend this. Just as I thought I had it figured out it took another twist. I recommended it to several family members after reading it and they all loved it too. If you want something different from the norm, interesting with plenty of surprises then this book is for you!
Meh... Someone saw Donnie Darko and decided they could write a "Donnie Darko but better" novel, but then wrote something that wasn't.
Time travel is quickly working its way up my favorite genres list, and I absolutely loved how it operated in Backward Glass. Kenny's family moves into an old house that has been rumored to be haunted, since there's tales of a mad man in the woods surrounding it and several kids had gone missing over the years. But Kenny soon learns the truth behind these rumors there's a mirror that allows you to travel back and forth in time, and sometimes you don't come back. The story doesn't start with a mirror though. It actually begins with finding a dead baby shoved in a wall. Morbid? Most definitely. Intriguing? Heck yes! Now Kenny (and the other mirror kids) are on a mission to discover who the dead baby is and save it, wherever in time it may be.

While I did really enjoy all of the science fiction aspects and the excitement of Backward Glass, I was hoping that the whole dead baby thing would just be the catalyst that gets the story rolling. I didn't really want the whole thing to be centered around saving some mystery infant from times long past, but in the last third or so, this definitely becomes the case. There's a pregnant girl in the past who wants Kenny's help, and Kenny tries to play hero, and there's old fashioned childbirth and ew. No thanks! I was much more interested in the creepy skipping rhyme about Prince Harming, who is somehow involved with the mirror and the dead baby. The variations on the rhyme and the tale are weird and kept me reading, especially when Prince Harming actually makes an appearance. He's definitely not what me or Kenny were expecting.

The actual time traveling set up is awesome! There's no crazy, intense, complicated quantum physics in Backward Glass. The mirror is actually very simple and we're told all of the rules along the way. The basic idea is that you go in and come out 10 years in the past, then you can go back to your own time when you're ready. However, travelers can also do a kind of chain to get further past or even into the future. Eventually other more complicated stuff gets introduced and my head started spinning, but over all I loved all of this. Kenny gets to meet a bunch of other characters who help him on his mission; my favorite being John Wald from 17th century Scotland.

In the end, I liked Backward Glass a lot. It started to lose me towards the end when the whole baby saving mission came back to the foreground. Babies gross me out, so yeah. I would have enjoyed it much more if that Prince Harming legend had played a larger role and was the main focus. I loved visiting all of the different time periods, particularly the 80s! Kenny's crash course into Nintendo and Star Wars was hilarious!

*Disclaimer I received this book from the publisher through NetGalley for review. No compensation was offered or accepted.