Book Club Questions
- If you read books 1 – 3, do you feel starting the story back in Hamilton was a story that needed to be told?
- Did the author make this transition back in time believable?
- Was the absence of Gates and Mc Kenzie a hardship for readers to connect with the story’s new direction?
- Of the central characters, who do you think is the most sympathetic?
- Of the central characters, who do you think is the most likable?
- How easy is it for Benjamin and the rest of the Ennis family to accept that Gates and Mc Kenzie are missing and presumed dead?
- Is Benjamin’s transition to deputy believable? If not, what might the author have done differently?
- Is the time appropriate that Benjamin held onto for hope of their return appropriate?
- How does Gabriel’s mourning differ from Edith’s? Is it different?
- Is Benjamin’s transference of emotion from Mary to Devon believable? Why or why not?
- Why do you think Benjamin is more obsessed with the disappearance of Devon that that of Chris?
- What is significant about the author’s comparison of Mary to Devon and Chris to Michael?
- There were several situations in Yesterday Once More that mirrored incidents from the earlier books. The event in the barn where Abby was attacked is a rewrite from Turbulence of Devon’s attack in the barn. Did you pick up on it? Can you name at least two others?
- Does the realization that Samuel Hayden’s ability to cross over from the lights, have any impact on how Thomas Jr was depicted in the stories? Does this fact make him seem like less of a villain and more of a victim?
- How does Thomas Sr & Edith’s wedding fit into the theme of loyalty that is dominant throughout the story? Can you pick out other examples?
- Is the story less complete without Devon and Gates? Even though Yesterday Once More takes place a 100 years earlier than Terminus, does YOM push the story ahead at an effective pace?
- Is Thomas Sr, in any way, responsible for the actions of his son? Explain.
- Do you believe Pastor Leif is more of a victim or a villain?
- Do you believe James Middleton is more of a victim or a villain?
- Do you think Molly Flynn’s illness is affected, in any way, by her husband’s “possession”?
- Does James’ physical response to his return from the dead surprise you? Why or why not?
- Did you enjoy the story? Would you consider another story by the same author?