The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver: A Middle Falls Time Travel Story
- 4.4 out of 5
- 2,256 ratings
- 320 pages
Overall Content Rating: Restricted R
This time-travel story follows an adult consciousness inside a teenager’s life as he tries to change tragedies tied to a future serial killer. Language is rough and frequent: religious and scatological swearing, vulgar insults, and occasional strong expletives fit angry teens and high-stress situations. Parents should know the book includes horror-adjacent material such as animal torture and mutilation, a brutal school fight, bloody injury, murder, a fatal accident, and multiple suicides, along with a brief mention of sexual assault in prison. Substance use and underage drinking appear in review notes; on-page sexual content is limited. There are no LGBTQ+ themes in the flagged material, and the sampled matches for racism are absent.
Reviews first uploaded October 6, 2026 12:32 pm. Revised October 9, 2026 7:27 am. Page updated October 9, 2026 7:27 am.
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Crude Moderate
32Characters often use dismissive and belittling language such as calling each other foolish or saying situations are awful, especially among high-school peers.
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Specific words
- stupid: 14
- suck: 11
- idiot: 7
Fbombs Moderate
7The strongest single word appears a handful of times in internal thoughts and outbursts rather than on every page.
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Specific words
- fuck: 7
Profanity Heavy
227Teen and adult characters swear often throughout the story, including scatological terms, anatomical slang, religious swearing, and harsh insults during banter, bullying, family conflict, and crisis scenes. Review notes describe liberal use that may feel constant to sensitive readers.
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- shit: 77
- hell: 67
- damn: 27
- ass: 22
- bullshit: 12
- goddamn: 9
- bitch: 7
- bastard: 4
- butt: 2
Sex Mild
1There is little on-page sexual activity or nudity in the samples; sexual assault is referenced briefly as part of prison abuse rather than depicted in detail.
Specific words
- rape: 1
Violence Heavy
33The plot centers on a disturbed teen linked to serial killing, with graphic descriptions of injured and mutilated animals, bloody fights, a fatal stabbing, a deadly crash, murder, and multiple suicides noted in reviews. Injury and blood appear repeatedly in crime and confrontation scenes.
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- blood: 25
- punch: 3
- smash: 3
- kick: 2
About this book
Everyone has one moment they’d take back. Thomas Weaver gets to do just that. He died in 2016. He woke up in 1976. And he already knows the worst day of his life is coming. At seventeen, one terrible moment shattered Thomas’s family and haunted him for the next forty years. Now he’s back in his teenage body, with every memory of the life he already lived. This time, he can stop it. But changing one terrible day won’t fix everything. Thomas has old demons to confront, broken relationships to repair—and a future serial killer sitting in homeroom who just passed him a note. Thomas has been given the impossible: a second chance at the life he threw away. The question is what he’ll do with it. The Unusual Second Life of Thomas Weaver is the first book in the bestselling Middle Falls Time Travel Series—a story of regret, redemption, suspense, and the tantalizing question: What would you do, if you could do it all again? All books in the Middle Falls series can be read in any order and are available as audiobooks from Podium Publishing. Read more