LitPick Review
Jack Christie and his best friend Angus enjoy playing their Point-of-Departure World War 1 video game although they do not realize what an impact World War I has on their present day lives. How could something in the past affect the present? After Jack and Angus discover a secret library in Jack's house that used to belong to Jack's father, their adventure begins. When the boys bring in an artifact found in the library to show their history teachers, they learn about things that they thought were impossible and somehow end up in 1914. They learn that time travel does exist. They also learn about how the scientists who invented this amazing, or maybe terrible, method of time travel have entirely different viewpoints. The VIGIL group does not want time travel to be used because of the unknown consequences. The Benefactor wants to use time travel to change history by preventing the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. It's up to Jack, stuck in time before WWI, to decide. Who will he side with?
Opinion:
Day of the Assassins, by Johnny O'Brien was a pretty good book. It had some aspects of historical fiction and science fiction so if you like either science fiction or historical fiction you would probably like it. Part of this book takes place right before WWI and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. If you are interested in that period of time you would probably like this also. The beginning of Day of the Assassins was a little slow but after I got into it I couldn't put it down! This book showed a different side of the trigger of World War I, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. You see the assassination through the eyes of the assassins. Overall, Day of the Assassins was a good book!
