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Review: This Was Always About Basketball by Craig Leener

Author Craig Leener hits nothing but net in the third and final installment of his Zeke Archer Trilogy with This Was Always About Basketball. Perfectly balancing young adult drama with time-traveling fantasy, this novel is a thrilling, heartwrenching, and mind-bending read.

Diving back into the strange science of the 7th Dimension, and with help from his unusual and darkly humorous sidekick Lawrence, Zeke Archer once again finds himself facing impossible odds. After his archenemy Brock Decker finds a way to travel back in time and change the history of basketball, Zeke must tap into sacred geometry and the secrets […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2021-02-23T06:39:06+02:00January 19th, 2021|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Sports Book Reviews, Time Travel Book Reviews, YA Fantasy Book Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews|

The Shimmering by Michael L. Clark

A mysterious phenomena tears lovers two centuries apart in Michael L. Clark’s dramatic new fantasy novel, The Shimmering.

Finding the way back home to his beautiful wife is no easy task for Daniel, after being tossed back in time to a very different Tennessee wilderness, where survival depends on quickly recognizing friend from foe. Time-traveling is a popular plot device, as well as a risky one, but the way these two storylines merge, twist, and mirror one another is impressive and a joy to read.

Readers are given a godlike overview of a rapidly unfolding mystery, which makes for exciting […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-12-30T04:58:25+02:00December 27th, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Fantasy Book Reviews, Time Travel Book Reviews|

Caveman’s Daughter by Jeffrey W. Tenney

Author Jeffrey W. Tenney delivers a second time-traveling adventure with Caveman’s Daughter, a follow-up novel to Caveman that raises the stakes and explores an even more dangerous clash of past and present.

A year after the events of the first novel, Emily Marshall is still deeply affected by her journey 40,000 years into the past, but even though the mysterious cave has been destroyed, there are those who would do anything to access prehistory. A thrilling tangle of murder, intrigue, and reunions with very old friends, this novel is unpredictable and unique, exploring themes of loyalty, greed, brotherhood, and the […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-07-21T02:43:42+02:00July 21st, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Time Travel Book Reviews|

Review: Shock Wave 2: The Book of Vallora by Florian Louisoder

Author Florian Louisoder digs deep into dystopia with Shock Wave 2: The Book of Vallora. Despite a bitter victory over the nihilistic forces of evil in the first book, the ripples sent out through time have had a devastating impact on the future, which means that there is still a world to save.

Following their epic quest to the past, and Linda’s reclamation of the title Juno of Atlantis, she and Scott are shocked to wake up in the 21^st century having failed. Their world-killing nemesis somehow escaped to the future, won the war for Germany in Hitler’s […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-08-10T06:53:48+02:00June 26th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Time Travel Book Reviews|

Review: Shock Wave by Florian Louisoder

When the world begins to crumble like deadly dominoes, rewriting the past will be the only way to save the future in Shock Wave by Florian Louisoder. In a race to stop the complete destruction of life on Earth, two heroes with secrets of their own are sucked into the heart of a legendary kingdom that is suddenly all too real.

Scott DeSantis and Linda, his ex-wife, have a decidedly unique relationship, but they must put their personal strife behind them when a nuclear detonation off the coast of Cuba plunges the world into chaos, followed by rifts in the […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-08-04T02:52:27+02:00June 26th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Time Travel Book Reviews|

Arklight: Task Force Crusader by J.M. Myrick

Author J.M. Myrick delivers a conclusive masterstroke to his high-octane, eon-spanning series with Arklight: Task Force Crusader. Following on from the non-stop action of Operation Nightfall and Force Interdiction, the Spear and Alsos Teams work in tandem, but in different timeless, towards the same goal: stopping the horrific vision of the Fourth Reich and the Order of the Black Sun.

All of the loose ends and shadowy mysteries from the first two books are wrapped up in this intricate and riveting read. From Switzerland and Belgium to Okinawa and England, this book bounces between diverse landscapes, complex plot […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-04-22T03:07:26+02:00April 21st, 2020|Categories: New Releases|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Time Travel Book Reviews|

Review: Blowback ’94 by Brian Meehl

Author Brian Meehl brings his Blowback Trilogy to a compelling close with Blowback ’94, where Iris Jongler-Jinks finally gets her wish to hop through time, landing her squarely in the heart of the Belle Epoque in Paris, determined to find her mother and reunite the Jongler family.

Iris is joined by Arky, her time-traveling brother who just recently evaded death in the American Civil War, and the pair boast a brilliant dynamic as they try to unravel the last great mystery of their family’s cor anglais. Although neither of them planned to be tossed backward this time around, […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-03-10T10:36:13+02:00March 9th, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews, Lead Story|Tags: Science Fiction Book Reviews, Time Travel Book Reviews, Young Adult Book Reviews|

Review: Time’s Musicians by Mark Paul Oleksiw

A bizarre, mind-bending story unfurls on the pages of Time’s Musicians by Mark Paul Oleksiw, an author with an imagination only matched by his delicate and authentic style. In this decade-spanning novel, the idea of connections across time and space mix with our boundaries of mental health, love, and reality itself.

When Billy meets Dieter, a young boy with an unfinished comic book who claims he can travel through time, he has no idea that it will set him on a life-defining course. Dieter disappears under mysterious circumstances and Billy’s family moves to give him a fresh start, at which […]

John Staughton, Senior Reviewer2020-04-02T05:56:08+02:00March 2nd, 2020|Categories: Book Reviews|Tags: Time Travel Book Reviews, Visionary Fiction Book Reviews|