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Reviewed by Lit Amri for Readers' Favorite
In William L.J. Galaini’s The Line, human history can be observed through time travel. A small team of scientists on board Janus station are assembled and isolated within the folds between timelines. Mary, Jack, Gustav, Wyatt, Rupert and Ingrid are on a mission to observe and verify human history first hand through the Beta Line, an alternate timeline that is supposed to closely mirror our own. However, after spending five months scanning and doing the math for human history, they found a bunch of inconsistencies. The history on the Beta Line radically diverges from the original.
In 1994, a West African rebel camp was decimated and it gives the first alarming clue that the group isn’t alone; there’s another time-traveler, one that wages a vendetta against past atrocities. With the exception of the time travel concept, it took me some time to familiarize myself with the proposed technological and fringe science elements in the story. That said, they are fascinating and substantially relatable. Time travel is one of my favorite sci-fi themes, and Galaini excellently put a fresh spin on it as a premise and produced a good plot. The Line not only explores the concept of time travel, but also human morality.
There’s definitely room for improvement in terms of editing and story development, particularly in the first few chapters. Even though the characters are introduced enough for readers to know their intimate personalities, I think they could be more evenly fleshed out. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the story and I would definitely like to read more work from Galaini.
