THE BEAUTIFUL LAND
SUMMARY
…working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines—as many and as varied as anyone could imagine. A great gig—until information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world.
If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high school—because her future will cease to exist. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Tak’s ravings of multiple realities. The only way to save her is for Tak to use the time travel device he “borrowed” to transport them both to an alternate timeline.
But what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Land—and he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it.
The switch is thrown, and reality begins to warp—horribly. And Tak realizes that to save Sam, he must save the entire world…
REVIEW
The Beautiful Land starts off odd and only gets weirder from
there. As Tak and Sam jump between realities readers will be both engrossed and
confused, constantly waiting in eager anticipation to see what happens next. I
found myself both unable to put it down and utterly shocked when I did manage
to by how much of the book I had read in a single sitting. The action and suspense
is infectious and readers if they are anything like me wont be able to put the
book down once you start.
Of course while the action and never ending suspense are
engrossing my personal belief is that The Beautiful Land’s best quality is its
writing. I’ve read reality and time jumping based books before and most of them
fall short in the simplicity in the writing, instead trying to confuse, adding
layer upon layer of complexity and needless characters and situations just
because they can. Averill does add random other characters but he uses them in
interesting ways to show the effect and check on the realities, not just as a
literary style technique. Not only that but the simplicity in the writing feeds
the suspense that the story itself builds allowing readers to get more
engrossed in the story and thus enjoying it more.
This book isn’t for everyone, but if you enjoy mind bending
tales about mad scientists, survivalists reality stars, and reality jumping, then this will certainly be your cup of tea.
INFO
Publisher: Ace
Published: June 4, 2013
Price: $15.00
Link to Buy: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008BK3JB8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
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