My Review of The Skin Map by Stephen Lawhead

The Skin Map by Stephen Lawhead is a fantasy novel in which we meet several characters, centering around Kit and his girlfriend Wilhemina, who travel through time. One day, Kit, who is in modern day London, meets a mysterious old man who claims to be his great grandfather who travels throughout time. Kit is skeptical until his grandfather shows him that he is telling the truth. Upon his arrival back to current day London, he proceeds to his girlfriend's house to discover that he is several hours late. When Wilhemina is upset with him, he tries to explain and, of course, Wilhemina does not believe his outrageous tale. Kit then offers to show her what happened to him.
When Kit and Wilhemina arrive at the ley and make the jump through time, they become separated. Kit lands in the time period with his great grandfather tells what has happened and the search for Wilhemina begins. She could be in any number of ley intersections and the future of the time period that she is in can be altered.
The leys through which the time travel is made possible is extremely complicated and dangerous, thus constituting the need for a map. Because of the importance of the map, one of the travellers tattooed the map onto his chest to prevent it from ever being lost.
As each of the characters travels to the different time periods, choices are made that can alter the history of the universe, therefore, chaos can ensue.
Of course, there is evil to conquer as there are some in the search of the skin map who have plans to use it for their own good.
I have to say that I was disappointed when I finished the book because I felt like I had not fully understood why the story ended the way that it did. There were no conclusions written and all of the characters were left with their situations not resolved. Then, I discovered that this book is the first in a series. So I am anxious to read the remaining two books. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys science fiction or fantasy reading.
I was provided with a copy of this book by Book Sneeze in exchange for my review.