You know when you really want to like something and it leaves you still wanting… that’s this book in a nutshell, it was supposed to be time travel, so I wanted a bit more like doctor who, but the way it is written left me bored many times, that's one of the reasons I took so much time to actually start to reviewing it…

I understand writing a book is not easy, and critics are hard to give and accept, it would have made the book better if It was only written in a diary format, or always from the same narrator (it didn’t feel the same during the book, if that makes sense), for a short read this book feels really big, maybe I can say, it was not the book it was me, I wasn’t the right reader for it.

Thank you NetGalley and TDM, Ink for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.

Truant Memphis is both the author and the protagonist of The Boy Who Fell From The Past, in much the same way as Pittacus Lore is the author of the Lorien book series. Yeah, it's all very meta.

The book is part diary, part science fiction time travel adventure, part metaphysical mind trip. Starting with a literal splash as Truant the Protagonist finds himself in an unnamed body of water, the story goes from strange to weird to psychedelic mind tripping philosophic discussions in the span of 116 pages.

I don't mind weird stories. In fact, I love them, and this is a decent speculative fiction offering. However, the Author (and I mean the physical person who wrote the book and not their fictional alter-ego) makes liberal use of parenthetical asides that become repetitive to the point of annoyance. Despite this not so charming quirk, the premise of the world in which the story is set in intriguing.

It's the year 3023. The United States is no longer a country, the landscape has changed drastically, and there's a child prophet somewhere out there. Truant finds himself in the company of a father and son duo, the Trates, as they make their way to the last truly free place on Earth. Let the adventures begin!

Overall, The Boy Who Fell From The Past is a quick read, if you can get past some of the more annoying author side comments, and when viewed as speculative fiction, it's a decent futuristic romp.

This was painfully hard to read through and the book isn’t even that long. The beginning 20% was intriguing then it all went downhill from there. The pace is super slow and I really hated that the POV wasn’t clear. Sometimes it was Truant then sometimes it felt like this omniscient third person. Plus the side comments! Omg so annoying and unnecessary. How many times are you going to write (another story for another day) in a story???

Would definitely not read again