“The Traveler”
Author: Jenna Lindsey
Several weeks ago I was looking for some new books to read / review; hoping to find a few that would interest me. I haven’t read any science fiction or fantasy in a while and the title “The Traveler” in this genre caught my eye. Of course I did my usual due diligence in order to find out what the book was about and while I wasn’t completely captivated by the book’s cover, I did find the jacket blurb sufficiently interesting enough to want to read it. I’m glad that I did.
“The Traveler” by Jenna Lindsey has an interesting premise. Jinnie, the book’s main character, seems to be caught between two worlds. She’s here on earth and yet she feels as if she’s living elsewhere at the same time. This alternate life is amazingly vivid and Jinnie is having trouble figuring out which is real and which is the illusion. At night, as she sleeps, she dreams of a man named Griffin. A man who loves her completely; a man she longs to be with yet how can she when he is only a figment of her imagination. Or is he…
Suddenly and without warning Jinnie is pulled into a completely different world. She struggles to keep the memories of her past intact while trying to remember the life she’s currently living. At every turn it seems she faces lies, subterfuge, and deceit. When at last she regains her memory she learns a horrifying truth. She realizes her life has been unfairly twisted and she learns the awful heartbreak that goes hand in hand with the words “I love you.”
I don’t want to provide any more of this story but I will give “The Traveler” a solid four star rating. I found the book to be well written, very interesting and it held my attention completely. Lindsey has a great writing style as well as a wonderful imagination. She is descriptive without becoming boring; the interactions between the characters flow smoothly, and the transitions between the different worlds are, for the most part, seamless. The author could have made this book into a series and perhaps, in future, she will. I think it also has great potential as a movie script.
For those of you who don’t normally enjoy reading science fiction I would suggest you ignore that particular categorization. I feel Lindsey has done a great job of taking some elements from science fiction and merging them together with fantasy and romance. As such this is definitely not a hard-core sci-fi read.