To Trust in What We Cannot See - Book Review

Dennis Mansfield's To Trust in What We Cannot See has potential. The premise is that two men travel back in time to change history for the good of mankind, but there's also a time-traveling bad guy who only wants to change history to serve his own interests. There was an interesting intersection between the bad guy and other historical figures, but it was difficult to keep track of how everyone was connected.

This is the first book in a series, and the characters spend a lot of time talking. But hopefully this book is merely setting the stage for future action. For all the time the characters spend explaining things, I was still confused on certain aspects. Time travel is a complex subject, I'll grant the author that.

And if you do something in the past and it actually has negative effects on the future, wouldn't you be in more of a rush to go back to the past and fix it again? (I actually thought the negative future would have been a good storyline to follow.) Why would you take a side trip to another historical date to go and meddle with, expecting positive results this time around? And not check your work to make sure the results were positive??

I had some other issues with this book that basically just came down to the book needing more editing. Maybe with some extra help, this series could be tweaked to reach its full potential as the next The Da Vinci Code or National Treasure.

To Trust in What We Cannot See is published by iUniverse and is available to purchase now. I received a free review copy.