My rating: 3.75/5 stars

“I remember, as a kid, when I first understood that only half of every tree is visible, that the roots in the soil are equal to the branches in the sky, that a whole other half is underground. It took me a lot longer, well into adulthood, to realize people are like that too.”

All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

All Our Wrong Todays is an intriguing, mind-twisting story about time travel. The year is 2016 and Tom Barren lives in the world the rest of us thought we’d be living in by now: flying cars, machines that make you breakfast – basically the life of The Jetsons (if you ever watched that cartoon). After Tom gets his heart broken, a stupid impulsive decision to use his dad’s time machine leaves him stranded in our own version of 2016

– the era of iPhones, FaceTime, Uber – technological advancements that seem impressive to us but feel stone-age like to Tom. 

As he frantically tries to fix his mistake and find a way back to his own reality,

he begins to realize that he prefers the versions of his family, career and love life in this reality. Tom ultimately has to make a decision, whether to remain in this false reality or undo the damage he caused when he destroyed the lives of everyone else in his own reality. 

While this story starts off much slower than I’d have liked, after it picks up it’s incredibly hard to put down. The way it’s narrated is also quite hilarious. If you’re a fan of sci-fi, the idea of multiple timelines and alternate realities or if you still watch CW’s The Flash in 2020 (aka me lol) then this is a book you’d enjoy.