The Threshold

I really like Time travel/ parallel universe stories and this one fills the bill nicely. Years ago I happened on this author's The Mirror and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was haunting. In that novel the heroine gets trapped in the Colorado of the 1880's, but retains all her 20th Century memories and ha......more

The book is filed under “horror,” but I don’t know if I’d place the book in that genre. More science fiction, time travel adventure. But apparently horror is what it’s supposed to be, so horror it is. The story is interesting, but I think it probably could have been shorter. Aletha travels a bit too......more

Slow beginning, abrupt ending Unlike my favorite novel "The Mirror" which flowed beautifully and had a plausible plot this novel had a sketchy plot that didn't really come together much less have even one character that one could admire much less identify with. It ended abruptly with a synopsis on ea......more

I found this time travel novel choppy. I suppose it is partly because the modern characters were jerked around in time, but I think the book could have been smoother. I am also still mystified by how a rock made the whole thing work, and caused the tears in time. I did enjoy the Telluride history. I......more

I loved "The Mirror" by Ms. Millhiser and read it more than once a long time ago. This book, however, I found too confusing. It also ran overlong and I must admit that I skimmed through the last quarter or so trying to get to the end. I thought Callie and Bram were quite interesting characters and m......more