A Door into Time

An Alex Hawk Time Travel Adventure, Book 1

By: Shawn Inmon

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

Not all guys obsess over tiny details…but Army Special Forces do.

The wall just didn’t look right. Alex has been trying to cope. Life after his deployment had been rough. His ex-wife thought he needed to stop disappointing their daughter. She was right.

He would try harder.

With six hours before his little girl’s fourth birthday party, he saw the anomaly. One wall was too short. Plenty of time to tear out a panel and look behind it. He found a brick wall. His house wasn’t made of brick.

Behind that was another just like the first. He still had time. When the second wall came down, Alex stood and stared at the shining doorway. Next to it, held up by a knife, was a note. It was a warning - and he didn’t listen.

You’ll love being transported through time, to a future unlike anything we’ve imagined, where Alex’s fight to get back home becomes an epic struggle. This first book in the series will blow you away.

©2020 Shawn Inmon (P)2020 Podium Audio

Good Story, Character names confusing.

I enjoyed the story, well written and a good pace. Looking forward to the next book! The only reason I didn't give 5 stars was I found the characters' names confusing. I couldn't tell if he was talking about his friend or his dog until I realized the context. I'll listen again, see if I can work it out.

Science Free Science Fiction

I tend towards time travel as I am attracted to the "what if" paradoxes, novel logic, and scientific questions it poses.

This novel is time travel only in the way Rumple Stilskin is. [spoiler] There is a "shimmering door" that takes the protagonist on a single trip into a stone age future. The mechanism is never explained. Future Oregon is filled with perfect humans of large stature and giant monstrous bears, wolves, snakes, cockroaches and even prairie dogs. Again, no explanation as to how or why this is so.

All in all, this book reads more like a fantasy novel... just not my cup of tea.

Character development, world-building, language creation, and plot are good. Excellent blow-by-blow description of combat (again, not my thing but wanted to acknowledge). Interesting social commentary on our society's distinctions with conflict and technology.

Has a few silly flaws, such as not understanding that the largest pinecones grow on the largest branches, lower in the tree, and out toward the branch tips (female cones).

Narration for the audio book is first rate... one of the reasons I stuck with it to the end of the first book.

I recognize that many will enjoy this book. Just wanted to explain what did and didn't work for me.

Book does not stand on its own

Be forewarned you will need to buy book 2 because this one offers no closure.

Not bad yet Not great could have been better

Not bad yet Not great could have been better but still entertaining. passed the time though.

Exceptional! Heartwarming! Exciting!

This was a great book. I enjoyed meeting the characters and going through this adventure with Alex Hawk. It was a great book to listen to for enjoyment and adventure. I hate books that give you anxiety and leave you worried and sad.

You are my NEW FAVORITE WRITER.
Thank you.
Noel Westerlind

Great escape

I liked the characters and the journey they all undertake, of course the giant dog is the great companion. I recommend this if you enjoy escape novels and time travel. It deserves this rating because it drew me into the whole series. Good job Shawn, and good narration by Jonathan McClain.

Loved it!

I am a 47-year-old, white, female, who absolutely loved this book! I was completely glued, listening and hanging on every word. I think that it was an amazing book. In my opinion five stars all the way across the board. I can’t wait for part two.

Just got audible this was my first book and it was great

I love time travel books and movies and this was very different and excellent character building from the beginning. So therefore I liked it and will continue on with audible.

Alex Hawk

After reading Shawn Inman's first series of 12 books, I was thrilled to find his Alex Hawk Time Travel books and am just as happy with this series. Mr. Hawk is an imaginative and exciting author. He has built quite a believable and loving society of people. Alex Hawk and his dog are fantastic characters. I loved this book every bit as much.

I really like it

I started listening, then my daughter and her husband. we find it entertaining.I sincerely hope all his writing keeps me hanging on