Teen & Young Adult Sci Fi: Window Portals
Eva Pasco
5.0 out of 5 stars
Window Portals
Reviewed in the United States on April 12, 2023
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On the surface, prolific Sci-Fi/Teen & Young Adult author, Jesse Frankel, offers his readers an adventure of stepping through portals to other worlds in ‘The Window to Tellkar’.
As always, it’s so much more. For Mark Cornish, a.k.a. Mark from Earth, he grapples with coming to terms with his mother’s distant parenting, and fear of darkness. For Glenda, a.k.a. Glynarra or Glynn, she mourns the death of her parents and is up against a murderous king who will stop at nothing to steal her magic power of opening portals to other worlds.
By choice, Mark accompanies Glynn wherever she goes, and against insurmountable odds and dwindling time, they ply their wits to get Glynn’s curse lifted, while Mark confronts his fear in the process.
It’s about making life-and-death decisions that are not perfect solutions.
A story filled with insightful commentaries, I highly recommend taking the opportunity of stepping through the window to Tellkar and other worlds.
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The use of "portals" to reach other realms is an overused rather unscientific trick that likely will not happen in the future except through some form of communication like Zoom reaching other intelligent beings in places too distant to travel. Why I prefer hard science fiction rather than the garbage on that popular La Brea ABC TV show with portals galore.
Ark seems to be more scientific, but the spaceships, or arks, are metal and making a lot of noise as they travel through outer space devoid of any sound spectrum without atmosphere at all.
Ron