Charlotte May's Reviews > Sea of Tranquility

Man. I really loved this 💖

An epic novel in less than 300 pages!

We follow several characters in different timelines, from 1912 when Edwin St Andrew makes the trip from England to British Columbia to begin a new life, an author 2 centuries later travelling on her book tour across Earth.

Both characters have one thing in common, they have experienced a strange phenomenon. A break in the universe. Edwin, when he was in a forest beneath a maple tree, but heard a violin playing and a strange whoosh noise. The author, Olive Llewelyn when in an airship station on one of the moon colonies - having a flash of a forest in the middle of nowhere.

Gaspery- Jacques Roberts, is a time traveller. Hired to look into this strange phenomenon and perhaps work out what caused it.

Now, I don’t do time travel ever. So the fact that I enjoyed this as much as I did speaks volumes to the authors writing. She describes things in such a way I felt included and I understood what she was saying. This rarely happens for me with time travel in books.

Overall, this was a beautiful story, blurring the lines between time and space. I was entranced and gripped - this is definitely a book I will return to again.

“I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story…We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”


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When my library order isn’t available but I walk in and it’s just sitting on the shelf!

😃 🙌