Journeys Through SpaceTime (Journeys Through Book 1) by James Talisman – Review by Sherry Sharpnack

Journeys Through SpaceTime by James Talisman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

“Journeys Through SpaceTime” is a hard-to-classify book for sure. It’s a combo of New Age/Sci-Fi/Fantasy w/ edge-of-my-seat action and mind-bending world-building.
In this book, we meet characters in multiple worlds, occupying somewhat-familiar Earth time periods, such as ancient Egypt, Shogunate Japan, a futuristic Europe, and present-day Colorado. The book started slowly for me, b/c it was hard to switch between the plot lines/characters in the different worlds we visited. But again, the suspense and great action scenes kept me pulled into the various scenarios, although honestly, some of the worlds felt like “Star Trek” fan fiction – which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The plots in each world explored had nothing to do w/ one another – except for supernatural beings helping our heroes during meditation – until the book ended w/ a nice set-up for book #2 in the series. To try to present a synopsis of each of the worlds would make the review far too long; suffice it to say that the characters in each world are engaging. And the good-versus-evil theme throughout is my absolute favorite! And – I dearly LOVE the cover!
My rating is dragged down by the sheer number of characters to try to remember. It did help that I I read the final 50%+ in one sitting. Adjectival descriptions and certain phrases became repetitive, which was either annoying or a method of unifying the chapters; I’m not sure which. I enjoyed the book; I just don’t feel that it quite deserved four stars, so I have grudgingly rounded it down to 3 stars. That being said, I may read Book #2 at some point, just to see if I can re-visit some of the great characters introduced in this book.

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