Welcome to the first book review on Reading on the Toilet! Today's book recommendation is book one in the Alex Hawk Time Travel Adventures, A Door Into Time.
Written by the incredibly talented Shawn Inmon, author of the Middle Falls Time Travel series, A Door Into Time is a jump far into the future where life on Earth seems to have regressed.
I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into with this one but once I cracked the first page, I was up until dawn, eyes bleary, but brain demanding to know what happens next.
Alex Hawk is an ex Special Forces soldiers who, while fiddling around in his basement one day, notices that the wall lengths are off. He measures, then measures again. Checks the outside measurements, and comes back down only discover a rather significant deficit in the length of one wall. Well, that was like finding a thread on his sweater. Once Alex began pulling at it, everything unraveled. Before long, he'd broken down the wall and found himself facing a very mysterious "door."
It was the ultimate temptation, one that would change his life. Should he step through? In light of some rather alarming scratch marks found on the opposite side of the now-demolished basement wall, would that be a wise decision?
But when has anyone, faced with the temptation of a mystery door, refused the call to explore?
Alex steps through...
...and is almost immediately catapulted into a life-threatening situation!
Attacked by giant bird-like creatures he is on the run...further and further from the door that would take him back to the safety of his basement. It only gets hairier from there.
A Door Into Time reveals a futuristic America/Earth unrecognizable to the soldier and a thousand times more challenging. Alex Hawk finds himself captured and taken in by a tribe of rather tall humans--because everything on the other side of the door is super-sized--where he meets another traveler like himself. The adventure of a lifetime begins in this 5-book series (originally only planned as a 3-book series according to Inmon).
It is well worth your time, and you'll probably re-read this one because, yes, it is that good. Lucky for you all 5 books are available now. I had to wait impatiently, tapping my nails, pacing back and forth, checking my email, for each one to be written and published. You're welcome.
This series reminds me of my childhood days watching Land of the Lost Saturday mornings, but on a more adult level. It is a clean read (no sex, but some violence, and only the occasional "Damn"). You'll also see the odd illustration throughout, which only enhances the overall experience being able to see depictions of some of the strange creatures found in the place called Kragdon-ah. The names and locations along with depictions of life in the future brought to mind, for me, Native American culture, but with a twist. There are also elements of the mystical thrown in for good effect.
A Door Into Time is available on Amazon and is #KindleUnlimited for those with membership in Prime's unlimited reading subscription.
