Fast
Backward
by
David Patneaude
Genre:
YA SciFi, Time Travel
Fifteen-year-old
Bobby Hastings witnesses an atomic explosion near a top secret New
Mexico army base in July of 1945. Terrified,
he soon heads off on his bike for home, only to encounter something
that rivals the blast for drama. A girl his age stands naked at the
side of the lonely desert road: underweight, unwell, and speaking
with a German accent. In the coming days, she unveils an impossible
story about time travel and a heartbreaking outcome of the war. She
begs people to believe her warning and prevent the awful future she
claims to know too well. But even if they do believe her, and the
story is true, the biggest question remains: can history be undone?
Fast Backward is about a fifteen-year-old boy, Bobby (Robert
when his parents is mad at him) who lives in New Mexico in 1945 during WW2.
Bobby has job delivering the newspaper to an army base close to his home. Bobby’s
Uncle Pete his mother’s brother is in the army and is stationed there.
One morning Bobby is on his way to the base with his
newspapers when he sees a very bright explosion. After the explosion he
continues on to the base once there he asks around about the explosion to see
if anyone there had seen it. Bobby doesn’t get much of a response to his
questions on the subject from anyone but the two cooks.
After he delivers all of his papers for the day and without
much information on the explosion he saw Bobby heads home and on his way home he
sees something else that is unfamiliar to him. He finds a girl about his age on
the side of the road looking lost without a stitch of clothes on. Bobby is very
gentlemen like as he tries only to look at her face but he is a young man. He wants
to help her out and do the right thing so he gives her the bag he carries his newspapers
in to help cover her with he also gives her his shorts as he does have his
boxers. When he arrives home with this stranger his mother tells him he could
have given her his shirt Bobby says his head was sort of foggy at the moment
which his mother replies with something like yeah I can image.
Bobby finds out this girl is Cocoa and that she is from the
future. She tells Bobby that his time is heaven while her time is hell. Cocoa
tells Bobby that Hitler will win the war and the world as he knows it will end.
After Cocoa tells Bobby of things that is going to happen in the war and things
that Hitler is going to do they know they must find someone who will believe
them and who can stop Hitler. Bobby contacts his Uncle Pete who is in the army
hoping that he will know who to contact.
Is this girl Cocoa for real? Bobby believes her can they
find someone to believe them as well in time to save the world? Does Cocoa
actually know what she is talking about? The answers lie between the pages of
Fast Backward. Pick up your copy today to find the answers.
Fast Backward has been a fact paced and enjoyable read. I
have loved getting to know Bobby and Cocoa and the all the other characters. I
enjoyed reading about the war way better than I thought I would. I would like
to have known more about Cocoa’s world/time. But who knows maybe that is
another book and time.
I think Fast Backward would be enjoyed by any age group the
young adult or the not so young adults like me.
David
Patneaude finally heeded the advice, "It's never too late to
have a happy childhood," and began writing seriously (more or
less) in the mid 1980's. His first novel, SOMEONE WAS WATCHING,
winner of South Dakota and Utah book awards, was published in 1993.
His books have been placed on young readers' lists in more than
thirty states and honored by the New York Public Library (THE LAST
MAN'S REWARD), the Society of School Librarians International (FRAMED
IN FIRE), the Winnetka (Illinois) Public Library's "One Book,
Two Villages" program (THIN WOOD WALLS), and the Washington
State Public Library (THIN WOOD WALLS). His newest book, EPITAPH
ROAD, was first published in March 2010. A revised digital edition
was published in February 2017. Enjoy! When he's not sitting in a
coffee shop writing, or at a school or library or conference talking
about writing, or out on the running trail thinking about writing,
he's at home in Woodinville, Washington with his wife Judy, a junior
high librarian.
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