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Book: This Soul’d World

Author: William Disdale

Book Series: Standalone

Rating: 3/5

Recommended For...: sci-fi readers

Publication Date: October 15, 2018

Genre: Science Fiction

Recommended Age: 17+ (Child death, Violence, Gore, Religion, Sexual content, Language)

Explanation of CWs: There is a child’s death shown in the pages and frequently mentioned. There is some violence and gore. Religion comes into play a couple of times in the book. There is some sexual content. There is some cursing.

Publisher: Indie Published

Pages: 418

Synopsis: "This Soul'd World is the trial, tribulation and revelation of space-time scientist, Callison Trebla, who has a destiny calling him from a parallel dimension. Upon retirement from his life-long employer, Quanta Laboratories, Callison 'steals' an as-yet unproven time-portal and takes it home to 'go solo' on the project. And he thinks he's got away with it: until the day he actually makes it work.
Quanta soon come knocking, revealing their dark, conspiratorial, lethal intentions. They claim the portal is their intellectual property to do with as they please, including keeping it a secret. The only route of escape for Callison becomes wherever the portal leads.
He makes the leap and unwittingly falls down a rabbit hole of infinite depth, exploring behind the inter-dimensional veil and in the process learning how to get around Quanta Laboratories. He also learns how to deal with the mystery of life itself and the loss of his young son 30 years previous.
This Soul'd World is a story of hope for the coming age, that aims to challenge our inherited paradigms about life. It pulls the reader down alternate timelines and explores all the space between. It's a medley of Science Fiction, Mystery, Forgotten Philosophies and Adventure. and readdresses the balance between the search of the world for answers, and the search of the self for questions.
Waking up is like breathing again, for those caught in a nightmare..."

Review: For the most part this was an ok book. It had some great world building and I really liked the premise behind the book. I’ve always believed in parallel worlds since I first saw Quantum Leap, so I was really interested in this book from the premise.

However, I thought that the book had a lot of work to do. The book didn’t have a lot going on plot wise in the beginning and it set the book up to be very slow. The book got a bit better in the middle, but there was still a lot of confusing and slow parts that just made the book drag on. The characters also weren’t well developed beyond their shared trauma and they just fell flat on the page. The ending also felt elongated and just drawn out.

Verdict: It was ok, but not for me. Maybe for you!