The Five Times I Met Myself by James L. Rubart

This story deals with the chances of time travel through dreams. What would you change, what would you leave the same, what would you do to better your life and those around you? Brock Matthews has a chance to do all of this, however he doesn’t quite know how or what to change each time he goes back.

This story wrestles quite a bit with mortality, religion and family. Brock and his brother Ron are the owners of a very successful Coffee business. Although the dollars are raking in the millions, their relationship is fraying to the point of inaudible mumblings a handful of times a week as they awkwardly pass each other in the halls on their way to the respective office to shut out the world and focus on making more millions. This has always been their relationship. Ron is younger than Brock but somehow he always manages to be better at everything they do.

Brock’s marriage is also falling apart as he focuses more and more of his time on his business instead of his family. His wife is slowly pulling away from him and his son the same. Brock cannot seem to figure out how to stop or change this from happening. All of this is enough to cripple any sane man, but wait, there’s more. A dream is plaguing Brock. For the past 5 days his father has visited his dreams and he’s trying to tell him something Brock feels is very important. Somethings that will help him understand how to fix everything. Brock receives a book on “Lucid Dreaming” from his friend and gives it a try. Once Brock learns to master the art of Lucid Dreaming he then realizes that after every dream he is in fact changing the course of his future, and mostly for the worse.

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I received a copy of this book from Book Look Blogger for this review