I love time travel stories in particular, as long as they are not a romance saga in disguise. "TimeStorm" is definitely not one of those. In fact, you will need a strong stomach when an unusually fierce storm hits. The convicts below are tossed about like rag dolls, covered in the filth of the bilge, vomit, and excrement. The stench gets up your nostrils, (really!) the writing is that vivid!Bloody carnage erupts on deck when the convicts escape and attack soldiers and sailors alike. Graphic scen...

TimeStorm is an amazing, thrilling adventure written by talented author, Steve Harrison. As a debut novel, this account stunned me. Long did I linger into the wee hours of the morning, unwilling to relinquish my hold upon its ivory pages. This book is as raw and cutthroat as convict, Rufus Redmond, who manages to control a band of desperate criminals with a staggering combination of brute force, gut clenching fear and savage determination. It is as honorable, brave and daring as First Lieutenant...

Travelling across the oceans in 1795 from England to New South Wales, Australia, the convict ship Marlin was run by Captain Cross with Lieutenants Christopher (Kit) Blaney and Henry Kite as his deputies. Below decks, Rufus Redmond, a big brute of a man, was feared by all. Filthy, surly and desperate, Redmond in particular had a deep revenge in his heart – he would kill Cross if it was the last thing he did.When the Marlin was nearing the New South Wales coast, they were struck by a ferocious sto...

To be honest, I didn't know what to expect of this book. I love time travel stories but boats and convicts? I admit I had a bit of difficulty with the premises, yet I liked the way it was presented. It may not be for everyone, as I know some people don't like switching 'heads', but I thought it was well done. Written in third person POV, each chapter is entitled the name of the characters we're following. While there were many characters POV, it still helped us get into their mind and understand...

This was real fun!



I could start to criticise this or that, but what the heck? This was wonderful, fast fun which had me glued to the pages.

Such a clever idea and I love time travel so this should have been the book for me. Somehow though it didn't quite do it for me. I think maybe it was just too many people who made the journey and it was too much for me to swallow. Or maybe the constant changing of POV when there was a positively charismatic main character to hand who could have carried the whole book on his own. I don't know. Anyway stars for the original idea and for the character of Blaney. A star too for the cover which I lov...

I thoroughly enjoyed this time travel adventure story set on a convict ship approaching New South Wales after a long journey in 1796. I love that the cover of the book looks like an old fashioned, albeit somewhat overblown painting from that era showing a full masted sailing ship being tossed on the high seas. It harks back to the swashbuckling adventures of of a C.S Forrester or Patrick O'Brien novel and sets the scene for the first part of the novel describing the journey and the characters of...

4.5★Won on Goodreads First Reads GiveawayWhat a great story!!I’m a bit of a fan of Time travel/slip novels, but this is quite different to what I normally read. Instead of one person slipping back in time to the past, this is a whole ship (crew & convicts) slipping forward to current day Sydney (Well 2017 so nearly current day) & I really enjoyed it.The prologue (set in 2003) sucked me in & then it jumps back to 1795 where the story “begins”. Initially I wasn’t sure if it was going t...

Everyone loves a good time travel/time anomaly story. Thing is, they are fiendishly hard to write and to keep believable. Only a very skilled storyteller can create a plausible mingling of epochs and maintain the illusion over the course of a full length novel. Steve Harrison has that skill.Time Storm is a really impressive debut that generates an authentic feeling milieu (1796 convict ship bound for Sydney) and somehow translates that milieu to 2017 Sydney without descending into farce. The cha...

The HMS Marlin is nearing its long journey from England to New South Wales carrying a load of the most barbaric murderers and thieves, convicts, destined for a life of servitude. The trip has been harrowing, plagued with bad weather, and the crew had suffered great losses. On the horizon is yet another storm, this one looks more ominous than any they have encountered. As the storm surrounds them the ship is sucked into a whirlpool and the crew prepare to die – as they have lived – on the sea. Su...