The Mirror in My Dorm Room by Lashonda Beauregard
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Paranormal, Contemporary, Historical
Length: Short Story (27 pages)
Rating: 3 Stars
Reviewed by AstilbeJustina Oceans is just a regular college student about to start her second year of college in the fictional town of Summersville, Louisiana. Justina’s ordinary college life takes a turn one night after she walks through an old mirror in her dorm room and goes back in time to 1932.
While Justina is back in 1932 everyone believes that she is Laurice Haywoods, a famous star of the 1920’s and 30’s whose boyfriend is Braston Brawns, a talented musician whose career is taking off as well.
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During Justina’s time travels she learns why the past keeps pulling her back into Laurice Haywoods’ world back in 1932.
The past never really dies.
Justina was a sweet and likeable protagonist. Her studious but also curious personality appealed to me quite a bit. It’s always nice to read about someone who takes their education seriously while at the same time being open to new adventures. I also appreciated the fact that she was so honest about all of the things that made her feel anxious. At first I wondered why someone who was returning to a college she’d attended the previous year would worry so much about the logistics of moving back into the dorms, but as I got to know this character better I came to understand the way she thought and why change unnerved her so much. She seemed like the kind of person that would be a lot of fun to hang out with once she’d had a chance to adjust to her surroundings and settle into a routine.
This story would have benefitted from another round of editing before it was published. I noticed many repetitive, run-on, and fragmentary sentences in it. There were also some punctuation errors in certain sentences that I found difficult to understand because of how many different ways they could be interpreted. If not for these editing and punctuation issues, I would have chosen a much higher rating. The plot itself was fascinating, and I couldn’t wait to find out if Justina would ever figure out why she kept being pulled into the past.
One of the things I enjoyed the most about this book was the connection it made between the past and the present. Some events are so important that the repercussions of them can still be felt many decades later. Ms. Beauregard did a good job showing how something that happened in the 1930s could still be so very relevant to life in the present day.
The Mirror in My Dorm Room should be read by anyone who loves time travel tales.
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