A review by reflectiverambling_nalana
The Travelers by Regina Porter

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

A decent multi generational family tale that had a rather tangled way of coming together. I question the use of choosing second or first person perspectives intermediately. While I also enjoyed many of the characters, I didn't always connect with all of them as the movement among them and the time frames felt a bit disjointed. I enjoyed it, there was fantastic narration but as a person who enjoyed the play that is so integral to part of the family's story, I'm not really certain there was a true need for that devise. Someone's coping mechanism could have been any sort of distracting obsession. I kept waiting for some great parallel. Unless that parallel is that we are all just swimming blindly, well I suppose that could be it. but for a reader who had never heard of it, I wonder if it would have just felt too arbitrary. 

All the same, I enjoyed this book, but not quite as much as I had anticipated.