Epeolatry Book Review: Enough Time by J. Edwin Buja
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Title: Enough Time
Author: J. Edwin Buja
Genre: horror, time travel, paranormal
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
Publication date: 2nd May, 2025
Synopsis: In a paranormal tale that blends time travel, reincarnation, and historical horror fiction, you’re too late to save the love of your life from being murdered. This tragic history repeats itself every forty years, but now it’s only been thirty-five years and it’s time to break the cycle.
In 2020, Emma Ranahan laments that her annual torment is about to begin again. Every January, she has horrible nightmares about torture and murder. None of it makes any sense to her. The only thing she remembers clearly are the words Hero, Victim, Beast, and Friend.
In 1865, Colonel Beauregard Kensington, war hero, psychopath, racist, and cannibal, butchers former slave Emmeline Ronaghan. Captain Philip Daweson, pays with his life, but is unable to prevent the murder of the woman he loves. Major Obadiah O’Dale kills the colonel and cleans up the mess.
In 1905, 1945, and 1985, descendants of the original four players re-enact the events with the same tragic results.
Imagine Somewhere in Time with lots of blood.
Having started early, will the scenario play out again, or can the cycle of death be stopped? And is everyone who they think they are?
With a violent paranormal romance and a female protagonist desperate to change her fate, this supernatural horror book will leave readers captivated by its dark and tragic love story.
The cycle started in 1905 with Colonel Beauregard Kensington, Captain Philip Dawson and Emmeline Ronaghan. Kensington is a murderous entitled bigot on a rampage, one who’d put Jeffery Dahmer to shame. Kensington’s goal? To possess (in all ways possible) and give a lingering death to anyone and everyone that tickles his fancy. His current, and future, target is Emmeline. Captain Dawson falls in love with Emmeline just to have her taken away, again and again and again. For the next forty years these three, along with several friends, come back to try to change what happens. But can they?
This novel is a unique, if sometimes gruesome, twist on “Somewhere In Time” idea. It is well written and keeps the reader wrapped up in the story tightly. It’s broken up into times and characters to make it easier to follow along, as Buja hops around the timeline to better tell the tale and build suspense. When I first started the novel, it took a little while for me to adjust to the time jumps but once I got the rhythm, it flowed nicely.
Buja also builds characters who make you feel something for them. After the first meeting with Kensington in the novel, you absolutely loathe him. Each time he gets away with something… you feel the hate. You find yourself trying to tell the characters you love not to do what they are obviously going to do because they are playing into his hands.
The plot is plausible. You get pulled into the unbelievable and still believe. There are twists and turns. When history repeats itself, there instances when the players fight back. I really enjoyed reading this book and would highly recommend it to anyone looking for something a little different.
/5
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