Salvation

A 15-year old girl is psychologically abused by the constant bickering of her parents. When the fighting escalates into a full-blown war with glasses and china used as weapons, the girl, who isn’t given a name, retreats into her own world in a garden in her backyard. There she discovers an expanding black hole.

With an engaging plot, Keisha Crunch does a good job holding the attention of her reader as the girl plunges into the black hole to uncover a new and exciting world—an Earth from her world’s past, 1952. There she meets a young man and gives herself the name of Daisy.

Caught between two worlds—one where she is happy and the other where she lives in dread, Daisy is forced to choose as her wormhole contracts and is about to close forever.

Keisha Crunch’s YA science fiction novel, Salvation, is an interesting read for teens and adults alike as they can ponder the impact of spousal abuse. However, Crunch’s book could use a good editor for there are many grammatical and syntactical errors. The writer also tends to tell her story rather than have it show itself through dialogue and scenic description.

Though Crunch writes in the first person from the girl’s point of view, she would have written a better book if she had her characters chat more and let her readers experience the novel with better descriptions and characterizations.

Salvation does provide a springboard for teen/parent dialogue, so this reviewer encourages parents and their children to read it together as they build on improving their own relationships.