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Scharlette Doesn't Matter and Goes Time Travelling (Scharlette Day Book 1) Kindle Edition
Sam Bowring (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Ever since Scharlette’s parents gave her a name no one can pronounce, she’s been stuck in a bit of a rut. She hates her job in airport security, making people take their belts off before they fly to exotic locations she can only dream about. She owns a small apartment with large repayments, drinks bargain bin red on a couch that swallows gym memberships, and misses her little sister – lost to an exploding sandwich press, ten years ago.
Scharlette fears she might live her whole life without doing anything or mattering to anyone. Still, it comes as quite a surprise when a handsome time traveller arrives from the future and tells her she is correct – that, according to his records, she doesn’t matter at all.
Scharlette doesn’t think this news is too wonderful, but as she soon learns – given she was to have no impact on the timeline whatsoever, she is free to blast off into outer space, and have amazing adventures with heedless abandon.
“The book is charming and riotously funny. The most enjoyable aspect of the story is its unpredictability.” – Aurealis Magazine
Excerpt
Scharlette rubbed her temples as she woke, hastily compiling information. She was in a spaceship, high above the Earth, speaking with Gordon, an advanced AI from the future. Or perhaps she was in an insane asylum talking to a mouse? It was difficult to be sure. One thing was certain – she was definitely going to be late for work.
‘Gordon,’ she said, and then so many questions jostled for attention she had trouble focusing on one in particular.
‘Yes, Miss Scharlette?’
‘What’s the time?’
‘I’m afraid that is quite difficult to answer, as perspectives tend to differ wildly. However, internal ship time is currently 64:38:91.’
‘Right.’
‘PM.’
“It’s hard to describe why this book is good without spoiling a single part of it.” – Two Doctors Media Collaborative
Reader Reviews
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “So refreshingly different” – Goodreads
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “a solid sci-fi romp, and this is one of the few times when "romp" is exactly the right description” – Goodreads
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I have never laughed so much while reading a book!” – Amazon US
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “absolutely the best treatment of time travel all wrapped up in chuckles and spurts of laughter punctuated with moments of sheer terror culminating in a very satisfying ending.” – Amazon US
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The time travel genre has a great new top candidate” – Amazon US
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Scharlette is intelligent, real, relatable and very witty.” – Goodreads
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “dazzlingly colourful, endlessly endearing” – Goodreads
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “genuinely fun ... a proper joy.” – Amazon UK
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I loved this book much more than I had expected” – Goodreads
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date12 June 2019
- File size1722 KB
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"In Scharlette, just the right amount of absurdity mixes with serious exploration of crazy scientific concepts. And the dialogue, description, scene-setting . . . it's all funny. It blew me away. Just go read it for yourself." ★★★★★ Two Doctors Media Collaborative
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- ASIN : B07PMZWMWS
- Language : English
- File size : 1722 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 333 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0648582302
- Best Sellers Rank: 154,470 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 427 in Time Travel Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- 641 in Time Travel Fiction
- 1,596 in Space Fleet Science Fiction
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About the author

Hi there, I'm Sam, an author and stand-up comedian from Sydney, Australia. I've written across a variety of genres, as well as for a bunch of television shows. I was named after the family cat who, after I was born, was renamed Jack.
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But if you like time travel, sci-fi and a laugh, you'll dig this book.
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Scharlette's a bit of an everywoman - she's fully relatable. Cheap wine, job she hates, expensive rent payments, and having absolutely no impact on the world whatsoever. She's a little untidy, a little overweight, doesn't take care of herself, lacks motivation and... could really, at times, be me. (Except for the difficult-to-pronounce name, of course.)
The premise is excellent - that there are time-travelling agents in the future, protecting future events by protecting the past. Very TimeCop, quite Terminator - we all understand this one. However, no agents yet have a female time-ship called Gordon! Gordon's got to be my favourite character - with her own foibles, prejudices and sense of morals, she's as fleshed as any biped.
Bowring is a comedian, and comedy gold is evident in spades. Shrugging at scifi that takes itself too seriously, Bowring brings a wonderful sense of the realistically absurd to this novel. It flows like the Nile, runs rampant over realism, thumbs its nose at convention, and stomps on reality. This novel is a romp in every sense, and Scharlette discovers that not mattering can be the best thing ever.
I'm hoping this becomes a series. I could read more of these.

But heh, actually not a 'biggie' and overall a really good book. I look forward to more.


