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Through The Triangle

C. P. Stewart
Outskirts Press, Inc. (2009)
ISBN 9781432740368
Reviewed by Charline Ratcliff for RebeccasReads (02/10)


Here I sit, idly staring at this blank page, and wondering where I should start in my review of “Through The Triangle” by C. P. Stewart. I guess the beginning would be as good a place as any…

Let me preface this by stating I am an avid reader of almost everything. I love Science Fiction, Asimov’s works grace a shelf in my library, and like many people I am fascinated by the “phenomenon” that is the Bermuda Triangle. In reading the back cover of Stewart’s book I was elated to learn his tale encompassed both these things; therefore I immediately tagged it as a “must read!” The premise of the story is this: Five strangers come together for a deep-sea fishing expedition off the coast of Florida. It’s a beautiful day on the water when suddenly an unexpected storm overtakes their ship “Oblique View.” Once the storm recedes they are able to make it to shore and this is when the captain realizes nothing is as it should be. Through exploration and more often than not just dumb luck they learn they have been transported almost three hundred years into the future. This is the story of the fate that befell them on August 13th, 2005 and their life after…

So I finished the book and there I sat; wondering how to handle writing this review. I don’t want to say I was “let down” however, in all fairness, I must say I was not nearly as happy as I expected to be upon completion. Stewart’s writing style is at times either too detailed or very mechanical in nature. Because of this I was quite distracted during the opening chapter when his writing flowed from being interestingly descriptive to being over-descriptive and then back again. Not to be nit-picky but most of us already know a receipt from the gas pump is printed. It’s great to tell us the driver waited for cars to pass but do we, the reader, really care if there are five of them? If you are going to write two paragraphs that describe stopping for gas and what happens at the pump and you also include a detailed description such as “After punching in his debit card PIN…” then there probably should be some reference made to the actual insertion of the debit card. Better yet that part of the sentence could be left out as extraneous. By themselves each of these examples would have been fine were they a rare occurrence. However, at times, they appeared more often than not and consequently they became distracting.

On the bright side! Once I got further in, Stewart’s storyline was sufficiently interesting enough, for the most part, to keep me from noticing the verbose and often too technical explanations of certain things… Like parabolic shapes…  This is a book for our reading enjoyment, not to be confused with a textbook. I was also somewhat disappointed by the use of our most common scientific theory as explanation for the Bermuda Triangle. There are many different hypotheses “floating” around pertaining to the Triangle. Since this is a work of fiction I would have rather seen a different scenario presented within it.

In summary, “Through The Triangle” was a decent read and I am still glad I picked it up. If you like anything Science Fiction, if you like anything pertaining to the Bermuda Triangle or if your personal reading preference is for a more detailed and explanatory book then this one is a must read.