This book is the second in the Impossible Time series. I confess that I did not read the first book. Nick is the main character. He is a math prodigy whose father passed away. Nick also has cancer. He previously met a man who went by the name Demus, who claims to be Nick from a future time.
Nick finds a professor who is brilliant. Nick stages a sit in on one of the professor's classes. He alerts the professor to an error in some of his calculations. Then Nick proceeds to correct them and add insight of his own. The grand thing about this is that Nick is in middle school. He immediately gets admitted to college under tutelage of this professor.
Previous Nick was dating the beautiful Mia. It seems Mia has a new boyfriend who is an actor. Nick gets into trouble with some of the big college boys. Another girl, Helen, appears and saves Nick. These are the two girls Nick is attracted to. He wants to get back with Mia. He is also interested in Helen, who has a perfect boyfriend in college.
Nick sees somebody else who looks like Helen. She is chased by phantoms that Nick blocks as she gets away. This starts a bad luck streak where it seems Nick is doomed to die. Turns out this girl is the future daughter of Nick and Helen, who has come into the past to right some wrongs related to time travel.
The books starts out with a lot of British slang which I had a hard time following. I got past it though. There were a lot of interesting ideas in this book, like being able to see a lot of possible futures happening at once. It also touches on how going back in time and changing things can affect things which seem to have already happened.
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