A Door into Time

An Alex Hawk Time Travel Adventure, Book 1

De: Shawn Inmon

Narrado por: Johnathan McClain

Not all guys obsess over tiny details…but Army Special Forces do.

The wall just didn’t look right. Alex has been trying to cope. Life after his deployment had been rough. His ex-wife thought he needed to stop disappointing their daughter. She was right.

He would try harder.

With six hours before his little girl’s fourth birthday party, he saw the anomaly. One wall was too short. Plenty of time to tear out a panel and look behind it. He found a brick wall. His house wasn’t made of brick.

Behind that was another just like the first. He still had time. When the second wall came down, Alex stood and stared at the shining doorway. Next to it, held up by a knife, was a note. It was a warning - and he didn’t listen.

You’ll love being transported through time, to a future unlike anything we’ve imagined, where Alex’s fight to get back home becomes an epic struggle. This first book in the series will blow you away.

©2020 Shawn Inmon (P)2020 Podium Audio

a decent time travel yarn

I took a chance on this. I think mine will be the first review on audible. I liked it. Narrator was great and the tale was engaging. I will order the second one too.

Not his best

The first third was so slow I almost gave up on it , pretty dull. It gets better, but is no where as compelling as the middle Falls books. nships that he should have formed over time but doesn't.

It left me with a bunch of questions that really should have been at least touched on at some level.

What kind of father takes a leap through an unknown doorway and leave his daughter behind with no communication about what might happen?

I kept wondering about the main character and why he can't form meaningful relationships with anyone except his dog?

Maybe he will get to this in another book, but way does he call he a time travel story, but include the bare minimum of actual time travel?

Why does he always assume that that time is passing equally on both sides of the door?

All in all, It has its moments, but the author leaves out so much that the book really suffered because of it. I listened while driving on a long business trip so it did help to pass the time, but I didn't find myself listening anytime other than while driving.

Glad it was free to me. I'll probably try the next one but be quick to pull the trigger on a return if it is more of the same.

Mr Inman, you can do better, your seat of your pants style didn't work well on this kind of plot.

Different take on time travel

I quite enjoyed this book. My only problem with the performance is that I listen to audiobooks so that I can perform other tasks while enjoying them. Narrator uses quiet voice in many instances and I miss quite a bit by having to adjust volume to hear it. Depending on my headset, sometimes I cannot even get the volume loud enough to understand what is being said.

Surprisingly compelling

I got this book on a whim - I think it was a free offering. One of those attempts to get you to read the first one, hoping you'll get hooked. I was sure I wouldn't. I just needed a bunch of stories to listen to while I was recuperating from surgery. I was wrong. I loved the book and have since read the second in short order and am downloading the third and final book right now. I just want to stay with the characters a little longer, not ready to let them go. I do like time travel stories, but this one has a creative twist, going forward into the past (you'll see what I mean). Inmon has created a very different, very interesting world. I usually don't prefer lots of fighting and bloodshed although, knowing it's fantasy, it doesn't bother me (if it bothers you, this might not be a book for you), but the thinking behind the strategies employed to defeat the enemy - whoever or whatever it might be - are also interesting and add to the fight to survive. All in all it's an entertaining book - and a series worth investing in - if you like fantasy with a little sci-fi thrown in.

An entertaining trip to the basement!

OK at the outset this offering needed a big jump of disbelief suspension. The plot device ( hidden doorway to a new reality ) is a now time-worn tool in service of launching the real story. At times, our hero Alex Hawk seems too much of a superhero for my tastes, but that is a small quibble for action-oriented listeners.
On balance, this is a solid offering, but for some reason, it struck me as somewhat derivative and plodding. Maybe it was just my mindset ( listening in late summer during the pandemic ). Upon review, it's a reasonable listen, and it's likely I will continue with the series, if for no other reason to get to the character's resolution. Recommended.

Pretty Good

It was interesting enough to make me want to find out what happens next. Will Alex ever get home to Amy?

Copied stories from others, mediocre narration

This is a YA story that seems like it is written by an amateur. The narration was also mediocre at best. The story line was a copy of other existing writers and did not seem very original so I could not recommend this one and I have no interest in purchasing the remaining books in the series.

Just okay

The story is okay. Jon McLain reads it like it's some kind of a murder mystery and just does an awful narration of the story. May have been able to get into more with a different narrator.

Dead beat dad goes on a selfish scifi adventure

I found myself instantly disliking the character Alex. he's a selfish man child that chooses adventure and exploration over responsibility and dedication to his child. Throughout the book the author does a good job of setting up the world and the brutality of an ice age type environment. Yes, the names can sound similar, but it's not impossible to follow. What's disappointing is that Alex's main motivation is to return to his daughter that he willingly abandoned to go on an adventure. It's a weak source of motivation and didn't help me to feel connected to him.

Also,he's in village for years and has had no love interest? he's unusual and is imagine that someone of age would show interest. maybe it's in the next book. I likely won't know as I don't expect get the next book. lost of opportunity in this world.

A really, really, really really good book. Kept my interest as the first window. Too bad there’s only one more.

The book was great kept my interest is very hard to do. Kind of hope that would be a fourth book.