This is my review of an Early Reviewer eBook copy of The Chase for Choronzon by Jaq D. Hawkins. I did not dislike it. However, to me it feels like a later part of a series of novels of which I haven't read the first several parts, but unfortunately, I don't believe this one is actually part of a series. It just seems to be missing important characterization, character motivation and world building. I don't understand who these characters are, why they are chasing Choronzon through space and time, or why one of them is a talking cat that doesn't believe he's a cat. The novel's Afterword indicates that the two main characters are intended to be reincarnations of Aleister Crowley (the cat called Alei-cat in the novel) and Austin Osman Spare (a magician called Karl Spare in the novel) who I guess was a relatively unknown magician and contemporary of Crowley's. But none of this is actually covered in the text of the novel. Sorry. It just feels far too short and underdone, and I thought even the ending was fairly abrupt. ( )