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Title: Q: A Love Story

Author: Evan Mandery

Narrator: James Fouhey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-26-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

A spellbinding tale of time travel and true love that will appeal to fans of The Time Traveller's Wife and The Confessions of Max Tivoli.

Would you give up the love of your life on the advice of a stranger?

When our hero meets Q one Monday morning at a cinema in New York City, he has met the love of his life. Their romance quickly blossoms: in the rowboats of Central Park, on the miniature golf course of Lower Manhattan, under a pear tree in Q's inner-city Eden. Nothing, it seems, can disturb the lovers or prevent their approaching wedding.

Until one day a man claiming to be our hero's future self tells him he must leave Q....

Critic Reviews:

"Imagine The Time Traveller's Wife rewritten by Woody Allen and you'll have some idea of Q's quirky appeal." (Patrick Gale, author of Notes from an Exhibition)

"A quirky tale but at its heart an epic romance." (Marie Claire)

"A word to the tear prone: don't attempt to read the ending in public." (New York Times)

"A poignant exploration of the roads not taken." (Financial Times)

"A poignant, often hilarious, consideration of our universal curse of second guessing.... It will take a reader with a very hard-heart not to be moved by Q." (San Francisco Book Review)

"Evan Mandery writes with elegance and humour." (Times Literary Supplement)

Members Reviews:

Only Time Travel Could Save This Book

This book could have been a great book. Could have been 5 stars. The story concept is wonderful, including a magical ending. But like other reviewers here, I wanted to travel through time and grab Mr. Mandery by the shoulders and say, "Stop getting off on ridiculous tangents." It's not JUST that he gets off on tangents. Some of that is okay here and there, or if done right, can enhance a book and its characters even if frequent. There are two problems with the tangents in this particular book. First, they are way, way, way too long. Second, they are off-putting. Instead of being cute and smart, and adding to the story by giving it some quirkiness and spice, or further developing the characters, they make you feel like the author is standing in the corner of your room at all times lifting weights, flexing, and saying "See how smart I am? See how smart I am? Do you love me yet?" The comments by other reviewers about "trying to hard" are dead on.

Even the acknowledgements at the end, where he intrudes upon the reader to tell them how great his life is now, is of the same ilk. I mean for the love of God, he just got away from his ego enough to wrap the book up with a magical ending, and then comes right back to "Now look at me, Now look at me again! I'm over here. Aren't I great? Don't you wish you were me?"

If time travel is ever invented, the editor of this book should realize that the real story here isn't that the main character blew his relationship with Q. No, it's that the editor blew what could have been a best seller, a modern day classic. He should travel back through time and edit the hell out of this book to get Mr. Mandery out of his own way. It's really a crying shame that such a fantastic concept was ruined.

I read that this might be made into a movie. That would redeem it, because the screenwriter would remove all this nonsense no doubt.