Estimated Reading Time: 5min

I genuinely picked this book up because of the amazing sprayed edges and the concept drew me in pretty quick. Time travel being real is a tough pill to swallow, and we pretty much spend a lot of the book being given whiplash about how people who work in the agency view it, as well as those who come and give reviews. Most people think it’s hogwash, but the people who work there know something different… Bring on the magical realism.

Time Travel for Beginners

Anna, Teddy, and Jade are on a collision course. The Agency is the cause. It is also the solution. 

On a bustling road in Sydney, Australia, lies a nondescript storefront known simply as the Time Travel Agency. At once a confounding mystery and a beacon of hope, the Agency attracts those at a crossroads in their life.

Single mother Anna is in desperate need of change, and the Agency gives her the chance to begin her career—and life—anew. Teddy is a genius at salvaging businesses but needs saving himself, and he’s drawn to the Agency hoping to travel back in time to untangle his troubled childhood and his recently imploded marriage. Jade has no interest in the Agency at all, because there’s no way people are literally time traveling, right? Jade’s present is challenging enough with her spirited, increasingly bad-tempered daughter and a deeply buried secret too painful for words.

Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Death of Parent
Moderate: Toxic Relationship, Child Death, Death
Minor: Ableism, Panic Attacks, Medical Content

My Review

I really enjoyed this book. The entire time you’re reading this, the characters (and even the reader) goes back and forth whether any of the time travel is real or not, wondering how anything works, and simultaneously witnessing the lives of a few core people to the story like a normal drama. 
I loved how the characters felt honest and real, how you could pull them out of the time travel element and it could still be a book you’d find on the contemporary fiction shelves. They were flawed and messy, chaotic and heartfelt.. They felt real. 
On top of that, you had a fantastical element of time travel thrown into the mix, which made the entire story more colourful, engaging and baffling (in a good way). Choosing to reveal only certain things to the reader as we went, looping in concepts of time and then ending in the way that we did, I thought was very nicely done. 
I had so much fun reading this story.

Would I Recommend This Book?

Yes, I would absolutely recommend this book. If you’re expecting long and drawn out explanations of time travel, guess again. However, the way this story unfolded and was treated, was amazing.

Similar Books You Might Like

If you are thinking what kind of books would have similar feel, themes or content, here is a list that you can consider:

• The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Jaclyn Moriarty)
• The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day (Christopher Edge)
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea (Axie Oh)

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See You in the Adventures!
Christy Grace