Review: Time Travel
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2013
This YA romance has all the makings of a good plot, but lacks in that the author utilizes telling more than showing the drama that transpires.  Also it is difficult to realize that when he seeks his father in a room of blue fog, that he is entering a time travel essence and so one doesn't really realize that until half-way through his meeting with the teen-age maiden Agoura and her tribe and woolly mammoths are brought into the story.  Then you realize that they are in a prehistoric age.  And so it is with the rest of the plot: in each subplot the reader is well into it before realizing he is in another time zone.  We never learn what anyone looks like as there is little development of character.  I would like to see the author rewrite this story, working on character development and by some artistic trick revealing each new time zone in the beginning of such sub-plot plus showing action of the scenes more than just describing them.Although it is a novella, it would be a more presentable book if it had the usual recitations relative to fiction, copyright, etc. and chapters.  The lack of chapters might have been the reason it was sort of confusing on the time episodes.  However, for the YA genre, it will be enjoyable.The author provided me with a free e-book so that I could do an honest review.