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Reviewed by Divine Zape for Readers' Favorite
Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn deliver a mesmerizing time-travel thriller in Forward to Camelot and re-imagine the events surrounding the murder of JFK. Cady Cuyler is a thirty-six-year-old soap opera actress in 2000, who is abruptly fired from her long-running role. She is enlisted by special-effects genius John Staub and his father, George, who is prone to conspiracy theories. Her new mission is to use the new experimental time-travel technology to go back to November 1963 and retrieve an artifact that might be connected to the Kennedy assassination. Cady accepts the mission, but she has a hidden agenda. Her father, Don Cuyler, disappeared on November 22, 1963, and her mother has been devastated. Having been born in July 1964, she is determined to fix whatever destroyed her family. But her mission is more complicated when she infiltrates her father’s import-export company, with conspiracies and revelations. How much of history can she change, and what will happen to the present?
Forward to Camelot is a great blend of science fiction and conspiracy thriller, rendered even more compelling by the historical details. Cady Cuyler is a character I rooted for, and her developmental arc is cleverly accomplished. She is intelligent, and I enjoyed how she improvised, depending on the circumstances she found herself in. Characters like Lee Harvey Oswald are well-developed, and Lee’s role as a double agent increases the intrigue in the story. But the character that fascinated me is someone close to home, Cady’s own father, and his role in the plot. Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn create suspense through well-researched historical details and deliver heart-pounding action. This story had everything I wanted: a desperate chase across the country, clandestine meetings with JFK, and Cuban operatives. To cap it all, the absorbing first-person narrative voice makes everything feel authentic, from the smallest emotion to the most daring action.
