Review: Review from Martini Times Romance Book Reviews (Martinitimes.com)
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 20, 2013
Review at [...]The author reached out to Martini Times and offered his book in exchange for an honest review.In Beyond Parallel, you read about two different parallels. One where Bella and Clark are together, and one where they aren't. This is what would have happened if a different choice was made.I think Matthew Turner has a great idea. Were we meant to be on the path we're on, or did one of our choices knock us off course?The book is a little confusing because it switches parallel's every other chapter. So where one chapter ends, it doesn't pick up in the next. The only way to tell which parallel universe you're reading is to make note at the top of the page of each chapter. It will say "WITH" or "WITHOUT."The "With" chapters are one parallel and the "Without" is the other.Now as I was reading, I never got a clear picture of what the characters looked like, and I wasn't as invested in their "What-if" moments because I wasn't emotionally invested in Bella or Clark. I honestly didn't really care if they got together or not.At times I felt the pace was a little slow (the story covers 2 years of the "what-if") I think if Mr. Turner wrote one parallel in order without jumping around, and then wrote about the other parallel, I may have liked it more and maybe would have wanted Bella and Clark together.Mr. Turner does a great job at capturing his character's voices, unfortunately I did find them whiny, and I wanted to hit them most of the time. I wasn't really happy with the ending either. I wanted Bella with her friend Alex.There's lots of talk of traveling and Mr. Turner does a great job of writing the details of the exotic locations of Thailand and Australia.It took me about two days to finish this story which for me means I found it boring at times. Usually if I love a story, I can read it in less than a day.