Yestertime

A Novel of Time Travel

By: Andrew Cunningham

Narrated by: Greg Hernandez

Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins

Publisher's summary

"I'm going to die a hundred years before I was born...."

The handwritten note was in a dusty trunk that sat in a cave untouched for 150 years. What did the words mean? When journalist Ray Burton finds the trunk near the Arizona ghost town of Hollow Rock, his life changes in an instant.

Something in the trunk shouldn’t be there.

This begins a dangerous journey of discovery bordering on the impossible. A discovery that will affect the past, the present, and the future.

©2020 Andrew Cunningham (P)2023 Andrew Cunningham

statement of plot convenience

The performance I found to be robotic....I actually thought it was auto-read by a bot until I checked later that it was a person. The plot I found to be simplistic. I was annoyed by the main character making many statements of plot convenience.

Narration killed the story

The story was a bit juvenile and predictable, but could have been entertaining. The narration, however, was just awful. To me it was like a 6th grader reading a story in English class. I was going to give Part 2 a shot until I saw it had the same narrator, so I called it quits on the series.

Time travel

I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Greg Hernandez. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.

I’ve read other books by Andrew Cunningham and especially enjoyed the Eden Rising series, so I was happy to listen to this book. Yestertime is a time travel novel and it was pretty good, but not my favorite one by the author.

The problems with time travel are explored in this book. The premise is a good one but it was difficult for me to keep track of all the different characters and where and when they were originally from. I did find the idea of portals and portal finders interesting.

Many of the characters are supposed to be professionals working on the secret of time travel but they have a lot of trouble keeping the secret which didn’t seem probable to me.

The narrator did a good job. His tone and pace were good, and he has narrated other books that I’ve listened to. That’s always a plus in my opinion especially in his case. It took me a while the first time I listened to him to get used to his style, but since I’m familiar with him now, it worked for me.

3.5 stars.

It past the time

Here is the thing. It was a different approach to the other time travel books I have listen too and was enjoyable. It was hard to decide if the narrator was a new auto reader that sounded more human or if it was a real person who spoke with boxed lines like an auto reader? Sometimes you could overlook it and sometimes it was just very obvious and made it harder to concentrate on the actual story. So I gave it 4 stars because like I said it was a tolerable narration and the story was 👍 good 😊

Great book

The narration could be better. Somehow the narration was a little off. I don’t know how to explain it but the emotions were wrong at different times.

Not exciting

The narrator was not enthusiastic or engaging. Maybe with a different narrator it could be better. The story takes a lot of time explaining the same again and again.

Pretty Good to Excellant

I use audible a lot. I have never written a review before and probably should have. This book is amoung the best I have listened to. Very well written and believable time travel. Hope you decide to listen and enjoy. Wayne.

Stilted performance degrades the experience

A good concept, but the flat, staccato narration detracts from the story. "Three more words" for the review.

Brutal narration

Difficult as it is, I am continually to listen to this book as I enjoy the story. The narrator is probably the worst I’ve ever heard. He runs on sentences and speeds through it to the point I cringe constantly while trying to get through it. What a shame to ruin book like this!

Good story.

Good story, but the voice reading is a bit robotic. But o really I liked it