A Journey Through Time by H.G Tannhaus Book Review

 A Journey Through Time 

(Eine Reise durch die Zeit)

By H.G.Tannhaus 

Published Year: 

Page Count: 270 pages 

Medium Used: Kindle PW 

Genre : Multiverse, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Watches, 2024-read. 

Rating : 4/5 

A very interesting book. This is the book that is carried around and much shown in the Netflix Series : Dark. The author Tannhaus names one of the main characters after his name. This book deals in time travel and shows the nonlinearity of time and how altering a time line could result in alternative worlds/dimensions. The translation from German to English is decent..although at places, the translator got the grammer and gender pronouns wrong. This kind of confused me a bit and I had to re-read few sentences to understand the meaning. 

For someone who is new to the concept of time travel and multiverse, this narrative could become quite incomprehensible. I didn't quite follow why the heroic feats need the main character, Charlotte's involvement at all for she was prompted by the time agents - on what and how to handle the situations - who sought her assistance. The tasks that were set to clear time deviations for Charlotte didn't feel tough enough to be truly challenging. 

The God of Time, Od Tengri, has guided and directed a few people to act a guardians of time. They are time travelers and use different devices each - a pocket watch, a sundial, a water clock, a sand clock and a fire clock. The ingredients to make these are found in a cave to where they are led in order to make these clocks. Tengri also has trained a man Adam Kahnewald who goes rogue. He wants to end time and distrupt it in all dimensions. Charlotte along with these time agents has to stop Adam from corrupting the timelines. The narrative didn't put much focus on the adventures themselves but on conveying how, disturbing these time lines could lead to alternative realities/worlds. Its the age old battle between heroes and villains,  only on a much bigger scale involving different time lines and dimensions. I think it is a genre defining novel. The TV series has little connection to the main plot, it did no more than derive some character names and the central idea.