Customer Reviews
Good but flawed - By: Mrs. H. A. Bates, 25 Jul 2008 
I reallly enjoyed the first one - The Traveller - & even pressed it onto family & friends & they alll loved it too....the ideas ( the off the grid-ness!) was refreshing & unique & also quite believeable too! I think, therefore, that the story should have concluded with the first book & leave it as a stand-alone piece which would have had much more impact. When you start to write sequels the first will always come out on top because it's got the impact & WOW factor that a sequel will ineviatably lack. Also the second one irritated me for some reallly silly reasons - the first was when Michael was talking to the 'typicallly English' woman at the meeting & she put cream in her tea! No self-respecting upright English woman would put cream in tea! It's little details like that remind me it's only fiction & I reallly want to believe!! Silly i know but I reallly think authors should get these little details right just as much as other aspects of the story. Still a good story though!
Too much action, too little character - By: Diane of Glasgow, 03 Jul 2008 
The idea of making a good work of fiction based on the truly scary reality of our surveillance police state society was a good one, but it's a shame that the author couldn't follow through with a credible & interesting story, instead the book was a kind of new age (out of body travelling!) computer game type series of unrealistic actions. I found the idea of women guarding men with swords just pc patronising - women fighting may be a man's dream but to most women it's just boring. Main characters died & it was just a "so what?" moment instead of the shock that a good author can elicit by killing one of their characters. The author certainly is not in Dan Brown's class at alll - he doesn't have the knowledge, the intellect or the ability to write a reallly first class thriller.
Even better than The Traveller - By: Redeye, 18 Jun 2008 
I enjoyed The Traveller finding the writing refreshingly good & I eagerly anticipated The Dark River, the second part of the trilogy. I was not disappointed, I reallly enjoyed it, especiallly as large parts of it are set in the British Isles. I found the storyline even more gripping than the original. I thoroughly enjoyed the book & eagerly anticipate the final instalment. Surely there will be more adventures of Maya to come.
This is a trilogy - By: William L. Nessworthy, 18 Jun 2008 
Excellent read, & throughly recommended. Its a mix of fantasy & sci-fi with interesting view on the way we are controlled by governments & society, almost 1984 style.
Dark River is not as good as The Traveller, but only because it doesn't reallly stand on its own. In fact, I would only recommend this book to people who have read the first book. I think the previous reviewer found this out & preceived there was no story as such, however the Dark River is very much the middle book in the series.
The Dark River - By: Roger Boyle, 09 Jun 2008 
Tries to create a world to feed our paranoid delusions.
The CCTV in our high street are used by "the great machine" which is controlled by the "Tabula" , a secret society whose aim is to banish the mystical "Travellers" who can travel into different realms & are protected by their body guards the Harlequins.
There is romance , ultra-violence, cyber-punk themes & mystism-- Shame there isn't a story
Save your money
