Book one of the Time Snatchers was a favored first book by an author that's practically local to my own location.  Both of these made me want to love book two and I hope for Richards sake there are many out there who do because I'm just not one of them.  This book is a frenzy.  Caleb is truly stressed, trapped, and out of time/ideas.  He is frustrated, angry, afraid, and in a corner.  None of this, from a reader's perspective, is a big problem if there is equal balance of something lighter - romance, minor characters that are comedic in nature - but there is no balance to the burdens of Caleb.  Richard does a good job of making us...