The Beautiful Land

The beautiful land serves its name right because it's just plain beautiful in a creepy kind of way but beautiful indeed. If you love The Passage you will definitely love this novel. Japanese-american nature-explorer, Tak, tries to make amends for the job he was hired to do by a powerful company called Axon Corporation and his crazy but genius scientist,Yates, by saving the lives of an post-apocalyptic world and the life of her high school lover, Samira by bending time and space. This is one or maybe the best science fiction/horror book I have ever read. Alan Averill knows what he is writing about. The dialogue is sharp but a the same time natural which makes everything flow with ease. The characters aren't your typical sci-fi characters; they are normal people, you care for them , suffer with and for them, want them to survive.

Bad points: towards the end it seem a bit rush but Averill's writing is outstanding and very detailed that it makes you almost live the story as if you were there horrified and almost shitting your pant.
And come on, time travel (quantum jumping?) oh and those creatures, yikes!!

This novel is fantastic, inventive, captivating and waaaay cool.
Read the kindle expert and you will be hooked.
This book has to be made into a movie. Love it but I wanted more. Still deserves 5 stars.

(won this book on the first-reads giveaway with the hopes for a review, this doesn't affect how I feel towards this novel)