About the Book

Book: The Traveler

Author: E.B. Dawson

Genre: Crossworlds Fantasy

Release date: September, 2017

WHAT IF YOU COULD TRAVEL TO ANOTHER WORLD IN YOUR DREAMS?

In the modern nation-state of Riyen, few people dream anymore, and those who do are prescribed medication. But when Anissa Robson begins to dream of a strange jungle after the death of her mother, she neglects to report it. Feeling lost and alone in the waking world, she embraces her new dream world, until reality begins to cross over.

When Anissa stumbles upon evidence that her own government has known about Angapo for years, she uncovers a conspiracy that will change her life forever.

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My Review:

This book is intriguing and trying to put my thoughts in words is hard. The book captured my attention immediately with the character. It was a bit of slow build up building on the main characters and plot. Usually, books like that I have a hard time getting into. Not The Traveler it flowed nicely and gave you enough to want to keep reading.

Anissa’s character was unique. She was the square peg in a circle peg world. She just didn’t fit and she knew it but wasn’t sure why. She was someone who felt lost in her world of Riyen and feels a bit hopeless and odd. Even her house fights against her!

She has no choice to start her career path as an apprentice to politician Eric Carson. He is arrogant and seems like a cruel man. As soon as he shows up in the archives of the library I had a feeling that he wasn’t all that he seemed but I couldn’t put a finger on it until it is revealed later.

In Riyen people don’t dream when they sleep. If you do dream then you are medicated. Riyen is a sterile very modern city. Your life seems laid out before you with where you live and your occupation. Anissa dreams and they seem so real to her. When she finds out her dreams are real and she is actually traveling to Angapo. What she discovers will change her life forever. The secrets and the political agenda behind it is a dangerous endeavor.

The characters grow and develop really nice in this story. The politics aren’t boring and are very compelling. The theme seems to echo some of today’s world with indoctrinating children to fit your agenda, you have to agree with one party or you are considering a trouble maker, appearance of caring about all races, and abusing the planet, and other issues that plaque the world. It is done very well throughout the book.

E.B. Dawson is a new author to me and I look forward to exploring other books she has written.

This sci-fi political thriller is compelling and ends with a huge cliff hanger that I’m eagerly waiting the next book in the Lost Empire series.

Disclosure: I received this complimentary product through Celebrate Lit Bloggers in exchange for my honest thoughts.

About the Author

E.B. Dawson was born out of time. Raised in the remote regions of a developing nation, traveling to America was as good as traveling thirty years into the future. Now she writes science fiction and fantasy to make sense of her unusual perspectives on life. Her stories acknowledge darkness, but empower and encourage people to keep on fighting, no matter how difficult their circumstances may be. She currently lives in Idaho with her family and her cat Maximus.

More from E.B. Dawson

G.K. Chesterton once wrote that “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” I rather suspect that Aslan would have agreed. In fact, he says something very similar when he explains to the Pevensies why he brought them to Narnia in the first place. It is also why I wrote The Traveler. The vivid, broken, beautiful, dangerous world of this book is completely of my own creation, and yet you will pick up the clear echoes of the world you know, and my hope is that it will allow you to see it with new eyes.

Born in a developing nation to expatriate parents, I traveled a lot as a kid. There really is no way to describe what it is like to grow up between two vastly different countries and multiple cultures. By the time I was seven I was more familiar with the concepts and consequences of political coups, religious persecution, colonization, regional famine, and ethnic discrimination than I was with Sesame Street or Winnie the Pooh.

I grew up surrounded by dozens of Non-Governmental Organizations like humanitarian groups and mission organizations, and military troops from multiple nations. This is probably why almost all my books have a political element that examines the relationships between parties with opposing interests. But my chief interest is and always will be exploring the impact an individual can have when surrounded by (and sometimes at the mercy of) forces beyond their control.

In The Traveler (and its two sequels) I invite you on a journey to examine the relationships between nations, individuals, and cultures. This series is truly about adventure and the spirit and wonder of traveling to new lands and how it can impact your perspectives and priorities. Sprinkle in some fantasy and advanced technology and you have the recipe for a transportive, emotionally rich, thought provoking story unlike any you’ve read before. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. And I hope it makes you look at the world around you with fresh perspective.