A review by lawbooks600
The Traitors by Tom Becker

3.0

7/10, looking back at this book it was an enjoyable novel but it was very underwhelming and didn't age well compared to the other science fiction books that I read. The characters were all very flat and the story was mildly interesting so I read on to see where it was going. The plot begins when the main character Adam betrays his friend Dylan and then a massive airship comes out of nowhere and on it there is a man who would sentence Adam to 300 years in a special prison called the Dial which runs on a different time system than Earth's so that amount of time is only like 3 days on Earth. He stays in prison for a while and discovers that people are trying to escape the prison and the only escape is the portal outside the prison, but somehow in the end a massive battle happens where the airship and the portal are destroyed and there is no way the characters can escape. Unless they build a new portal to escape they are stuck there forever until they die, how dumb of a move is that since they just sealed their fates. Some parts of the world-building were still unexplained and there's no sequel to this book so it's just a standalone which was disappointing to see. If you like an original yet obscure science fiction novel this is for you but there are other ones better than this that you can read.