What if time travel were related to your movements, or lack thereof? Life would certainly get a bit more interesting, and troublesome, like it does for Dane in Time Phantom: Amsterdam by Randy Anderson. 

Having just finalized his divorce, male model Dane Vanderbrouk travels to Amsterdam to while away his troubles with various vices. But while smoking and drinking on his fiftieth birthday, things take an interesting, albeit it uncomfortable, turn for Dane when he begins to inexplicably travel back in time. Having relived the same few days over and over again, he slowly begins to understand that staying still for too long sends him back in time, but when he moves quickly he travels forward in time. Just as he gets the knack of how to manage this quirky talent of his, his life is threatened by an assassin from the future, forcing Dane to travel back to New York, only to wind up much further into the future than he ever anticipated as he struggles to get back to his life as he previously knew it. 

Capitalizing on a rather unique time travel mechanism, the story moves forward and backward in time, muddying the waters of both history and the future through Dane's actions. The writing was solid, entertaining, and well-crafted, aside from the scientific info-dump that helped to explain Dane's ability for time travel that pulled me out of the intensity of the moment. There were interjecting vignettes from a time and about a character that weren't fully integrated into this particular narrative, which left additional unresolved elements to the story that merely raised questions - perhaps it's a set up for subsequent installments in this series, but it detracted from the momentum of the story at hand. 

Overall, I'd give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars.