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The Time Bubble

The Time Bubble, Book 1

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The Time Bubble

By: Jason Ayres
Narrated by: Nigel Carrington
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Charlie and Josh's interests were the same as most other teenagers: drinking, parties, and girls. That was until the day they discovered the Time Bubble.

It starts as a bit of fun, jumping a few seconds into the future. Soon things take a more serious turn as the leaps in time increase in duration. When a teenage girl goes missing, and the police become involved, suspicion falls on Charlie. How can he explain where she is? Will anyone believe him?

Set in a small market town in Southern England in the early 21st century, this light-hearted time travel novel has plenty to delight listeners of all ages.

This story is the first part of a series which continues with Global Cooling, Man out of Time, and Splinters in Time. A spin-off series, Second Chances, is also available.

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A really enjoyable and interesting story. Easy listening - I got used to the narrator and ran with it!
A bit teenagy but I can still enjoy that genre, even though I’m well past that stage!
Looking forward to the next book.

Really enjoyable and though provoking story

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Loved the story and the twist at the end. But the narrator was oh so flat. Clear and understandable but sounded like someone just reading a script with no emotion. It didn’t detract from the book and I will be getting the next in the series.

Great story but flat narration

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A bit slow going and at first i thought it had been written for teenagers. Don’t let this put you off it gets much better in book 2! Well worth persisting

Interesting take on time travel

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Don't be discouraged by the negative comments about the narration. Sure, there are problems, and for this blame whoever it was who edited the recording. The repeated sentence near the beginning has been highlighted. For some reason Chapter 8 ends with the words 'End of Chapter 7' and in the next breath 'Chapter 9'. There is a further repeated sentence towards the end (without the 'Tut' by the narrator). This shouldn't put you off, because this is a decent and entertaining story and reasonably well read.

If I am to criticise the story, the ending isn't hugely satisfactory. No major spoilers here, but it just seemed that the author didn't want to settle for the usual happy ending with all loose ends tied up and decided to concentrate on just one of the characters who made a silly decision and forget about the rest. That was a shame, because Jason Ayres made a good effort in getting the reader to care about the various protagonists - so it was frustrating to leave us largely hanging about how things eventually turned out for them.

If you enjoy time travel books (and I do, even if the science is abject nonsense and the plot is full of illogical assumptions), then give this a go.

Entertaining story - and the narration is fine

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This is the first book of what promises to be a really great series. I was hooked from the very start
I have enjoyed all the othere series but this one is really amazing. A great story and a well read audiobook. I wish I could give it more than 5 stars. it is certainly worth it.

oh wow

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