elden's review against another edition
2.0
I won this book on a goodreads first read giveaway. I found the overall writing in this story to be good, though I did find a spelling error on page 92 where the author used correctly when he should have used corrected. Also, the idea behind this story was great, a time-traveling time salesman, and I was excited to see where the author would go with this.
Unfortunately, it turned out that this novel was not a science fiction story like I expected, instead it was a Christian fiction story. The mechanics behind time travel are never explored and absolutely nothing to do with science is done in this novel. In fact, if you replaced time-traveling time salesman with wizard with magic time spell you would have a better explanation behind the time travel in this book, as you could just account it to magic. This does not mean that the book was bad, just that it is not science fiction.
I did a count of how many times certain words appeared in 19 pages (pages 60-79) and this is what I got:
Time: 25 God: 21 Christian/Christ: 6 pray: 3 Jesus/Holy Spirit/Heaven: 8
These numbers hold true throughout the book and is something you should be aware of before you start reading.
Overall this was an easy read if a little heavy on the god side. Towards the end I started to enjoy it more but this is not something I would normally read.
Unfortunately, it turned out that this novel was not a science fiction story like I expected, instead it was a Christian fiction story. The mechanics behind time travel are never explored and absolutely nothing to do with science is done in this novel. In fact, if you replaced time-traveling time salesman with wizard with magic time spell you would have a better explanation behind the time travel in this book, as you could just account it to magic. This does not mean that the book was bad, just that it is not science fiction.
I did a count of how many times certain words appeared in 19 pages (pages 60-79) and this is what I got:
Time: 25 God: 21 Christian/Christ: 6 pray: 3 Jesus/Holy Spirit/Heaven: 8
These numbers hold true throughout the book and is something you should be aware of before you start reading.
Overall this was an easy read if a little heavy on the god side. Towards the end I started to enjoy it more but this is not something I would normally read.
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