A review by thebooklender
Zojaqan: The Complete Series by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing

4.0

Shannon Kind is stuck in a strange world. One moment, she was on Earth, grieving her dead son. The next, she's in a prehistoric alien land in which she can't seem to stay anchored in time, slipping forward months, years, millennia. During each period of temporal stability, she interacts with the local creatures - protecting and teaching the native prey species (to whom she becomes a god-like figure) from the violent and monstrous predators. These interactions have huge implications in the evolution of both species, which Shannon witnesses with frustration as she leaps forward over and over again.

There is one major issue I had with this book: the illegibility of the text of the Zoja narration - written in an olde worlde font that is very difficult to read, especially on a screen. Other than this, I really liked the art style, and appreciated the ambitious scope of the story.

Zojaqan is complex, intelligent science fiction story packed with time travel, alternate worlds, aliens, evolution, best intentions, unintended consequences and lots of blood, sweat and tears.