Review: Again, the author paints a vivid picture of the time period with his attention to detail.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2014
This is the fourth in the author’s Northwest Passage series and the fourth I’ve read and reviewed.Again, the author paints a vivid picture of the time period with his attention to detail.I’ll admit I did not catch the relationship to The Journey until the very end, although the reference to The Mine and The Show was evident in the beginning.* * *When Kevin finds his great-grandfather’s hidden stash of gold and diamonds under the floor of his house it is accompanied by Grandfather’s journal. Kevin finds the story there unbelievable until he follows the instructions and discovers the gate into a bygone era.He makes friends and falls in love only to have it end in tragedy. Although he alters the past, it in no way effects the time in which he originally was born.The author’s theory of parallel timelines is reminiscent of the one Richard Bach espouses in his book One. A person can exist in multiple timelines and cross back and forth into them. In The Journey, the main character actually meets her younger self and influences her future without having an affect on the original timeline.Two things I would have like to have seen were Kevin and his great-grandfather acknowledging the relationship between them and I wish Kevin could have met the man Andy interviewed who Kevin thought might be another time traveler.I am looking forward to the fifth and final book of this series. Although each book can stand alone, I would recommend they be read in order.