All the hype surrounding John Twelve Hawks’ THE TRAVELER is centered on the pseudonymous author living “off the grid,” so anonymous that even his agent and publisher have never met him, nor know who he is. Unfortunately, this also lends the novel an air of absolute pretension (it is, after all, dedicated “to my pathfinders”).
I’m torn on this strange, MATRIX-like mix of suspense and sci-fi because it’s all over the map. Not to mention more than a bit confusing. In the near future, a group called Harlequins protect a group called Travelers (who can project their soul into other dimensions) from a group called the Tabula. The book’s tough female protagonist, Maya, is one of those Harlequins, here reluctantly protecting twin Travelers from that supposedly evil organization, for reasons which aren’t quite clear to me.
It starts off slow, then gets really good, then wavers between boring and exciting for long stretches, ultimately finishing with a final 100 pages that’s a real chore to get through. And they’re going to make a trilogy of this? We shall see.
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