Stories of time travel have always intrigued people; being able to pick a time either in the past or future and manipulate events to our liking is fascinating. Everyone has put their own twist on it, from Disney’s Meet the Robinsons to Steven Spielberg’s Back to the Future.

Stephen King took a different approach to time travel in his novel 11/22/63. Jake Epping, the main character, is just a normal high school english teacher who gets pulled into a time-travel plot to save President John F. Kennedy’s life from Lee Oswald. This plot was not what I was expecting when I first saw the title but 11/22/63 is simply the date of Kennedy’s assassination which Jake is trying to prevent.

This book seems daunting, as it is a rather large book, but fear not because 11/22/63 is a page turner if there ever was one. I was very impressed by how easily Stephen King pulls the reader into the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. The first person point of view is a perfect fit; the reader is pulled along through the story by the subtle,  yet obvious foreshadowing King throws in.

As a committed reader of Stephen King, I can say with confidence that this novel is one of his best. If I had to rate 11/22/63 on a scale of one to 10, one being horrid and 10 being wonderful, it would be a 10. I strongly recommend it.