Reviews

The Story Traveler by Max Candee

purplepascalpett's review

3.0

"The Story Traveler" - Max Candee. This book is like kind of like "Inception" in concept, but less scary and more appropriate for children. The characters move through different layers, in this case the layers are stories instead of dreams. I feel like this book is for the younger end of YA readers. I'm guessing that this will end up being a series because it ends an enormous cliffhanger.

avalinahsbooks's review

3.0

This was quite hard to get into (took about a third for me to finally break through to where I'm following the story), but it was alright after that. However, it's somewhere between 2 and 3 stars. The story is pretty convoluted and quite hard to figure out, so you just end up having to gullibly buy it and go with it. The main characters aren't very natural or believable (Haley is supposed to be a teen girl. She doesn't feel at all like one.) Also, the book felt vaguely somewhere in between of YA, middle grade and even adult in places - I feel like it would have benefited more, had it been written solely as a middle grade story.

The enjoyable bits of this were the secondary characters which don't really need to be that deeply fleshed out anyway, so they didn't really suffer from what I mentioned before (plus, a talking cat character? Yes, please.) The stories they traveled were also interesting. But the ending wasn't satisfying (and I don't think there was eventually a sequel?) The story could have been so much better, because the plot itself did carry some promise initially.

I thank the author and the publisher for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review. This doesn't affect my opinion.