Mr. Delacorte's creation reads on a totally different tangent from other, more conventional time-travel works because of the localization of the scale of temporal involvement by the story's protagonist, Gabriel Prince. His original intentions certainly reek of grandeur - and it even appears, on his first trip to his own time, that he succeeds in his mission to make the world a better place without Ronald "Dutch" Reagan as President. In actuality, the book gradually becomes a story of personal tragedy, with Gabriel pitting his wit, effort and some limited 1990s technology against an inexorable inertia of Timestream to save not the country or the world, but the woman he loves and the man he comes to consider his friend. All characters are well-developed, with fascinatingly complex personalitites. Theory of time travel is underdeveloped, and even the contemplation of the nature of time are muddled, but it appears the author purposefully draws the readers' attention away from this so they can fully appreciate the drama that makes the novel such a pleasure to read.

I found this book to be quite interesting. Though not quite up to the standard of other time travel novels, the book is an engaging read. The premise is this, a modern political activist wants to go back in time and keep Ronald Reagan from becoming President. However, he's not up to the voyage himself and convinces a travel writer, Gabriel Prince, to do it for him. Gabriel ends up making the journey several times because not only does he keep Reagan from becoming President, he also keeps getting him killed. Along the way, he also falls in love, and is pursued by a couple of 22nd century crooks who claim to own the machine. This book is a page turner and the pictures add a nice touch. I hope Delacorte writes a sequel.

I had a very big dilemma about writing this review. On one hand, I think the book is very good. Creative, superbly written, realistic characters. However, I really didn't like the end. I'd say this book is a part of sub-genre inside the "Time travel" genre. I'm a time travel fanatic, I read any time-travel book I could get my hands on, And I've noticed that many of these books tend to concentrate on historic facts, as if to make the story "come alive". Well, "Time on my hands" is definitely the best. (MUCH MUCH better than Joshua Dann's series). The story has some unusual twists. But again, the ending somewhat ruined the book for me. It seemed to be a homage to H.G. Wells' classic story, "The time machine", which also had a bad ending in my opinion...pity. I just hope the author will live up to his promise, and write a sequel. And if that happens, I guess this review should be upgraded to 5 stars :)