The simple style of Edward Hogans writing captures you and takes you on Daniels journey. This story has you wanting to keep reading just to see what happens next with Daniel. There is a charm to this story, the fact that Daniel is your average boy with problems at home, really helps you to connect with what is happening. You really want to get in there and help Daniel help Lexi. I found that I really connected with the story and was taken on the journey as if I had caught a great wave.

I really enjoyed this book!! I found it to be an easy read and a real page turner!!! Young adult books are one of my guilty pleasures and this one didn't disappoint! The books tells the tale of Daniel who is a self-conscious teenager who is a bit overweight and struggling to feel comfortable in his own skin. He is dragged to a holiday leisure park by his father and is dreading it until he meets the fascinating and mysterious Lexi!! The book is very well written and had me drawn in from the start. I finished it quickly and enjoyed it thoroughly! I think the fact that Daniel is not the typical gorgeous, together male lead you would normally find in books aimed at young adults is one of the books most endearing features. He is unsure, angry and confused and that is something that a lot of teenagers would be able to relate to. All in all a great read and something I would definitely recommend.

I really enjoyed reading Daylight Saving and the originality of the plot. I found the lead character, Daniel, very easy to identify with. As I am well past being identified as a Young Adult, whom I believe the story is aimed at, I did find that it lacked a little depth in the other characters; with the exception of the lifeguard -I felt I really knew him and he reinforced my faith in human nature. Although I enjoyed the story I didn't feel pulled to the next page until the build up to the climax and then I couldn't put it down until it was finished! Edward Hogan delivered an ending that felt right with a final paragraph that made me smile. I would recommend this book to Young Adult readers.

Daniel is a teenager with troubles: he blames himself for his parents breakup, over weight with no enthusiasm for exercise, no luxuries in his life, he doesn't even have a television and now, on holiday in a healthy woodland holiday park, he's started talking to a girl called Lexi that no-one else apparently can see. Worse, Lexi appears to be injured with her injuries becoming worse with every tick of her backward running watch. Can Daniel find the reason behind these injuries and try to help Lexi, before her time stops running backwards and begins to repeat itself? Can Lexi influence Daniel enough to help him deal with his past and find a sport that he can actually want to do? Edward Hogan has written a great book that deals with a lot of the modern trials of teenage life. Daniel is easily recognisable by many teenagers in similar situations. Daniel's problems are expressed in a straight forward way that should appeal to it's target market. The book was well written with an interesting, if disturbing, story line with short chapters that kept the frenetic pace of this action filled book running along. I found it an easy read and one of those books that I didn't want to put down. Although the character of Daniel was well written, I feel that Hogan has skimped a bit on the descriptions of the other characters, who appeared thin (no pun intended) next to Daniel. All in all, a very enjoyable read and I would recommend buying this book.

This is a delightful story about Daniel who goes on holiday with his father to try and repair things between them after the break up of his parents marriage. His father was depressed and Daniel found it hard to accept this. The following was not exactly what was expected. Daniel meets the ghost of a young girl called Lexi and he alters what occurred at the time of her death. Her watch is going backwards, which he found disturbing, then every time he met her she had wounds which gradually got worse. What is going on he wonders? Lexi is funny and smart, but she was cruelly murdered at the holiday park where Daniel and his father are staying. I think he wished her to return to life,of course that was not possible, but he did alter the pattern of events. What was happening was like a newsreel going on and on, with the repeat of her death going over and over. What she wanted was a conclusion so she could eventually be laid to rest. Her body was eventually found in a ditch, close by was the body of her Killer Marcus Fielding, who worked for the leisure park but had gone missing around about the time of Lexi's death. This is where Daniel came into it, but you need to read for yourself the full details This is a really lovely story by a first time writer and hopefully he will continue to write more.