The Girl from Everywhere

Reviewed by: Mary Lehmer - Freeport Community Library, Freeport, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: August 10, 2015

Review

Nixie is a time traveler. She has traveled everywhere both real and mythical by using maps that the ship she is on can travel to. Her dad, the captain of the ship, is in search of the perfect map that will take them back in time to a place where Nix's mother was alive. Her dad hopes to save her mom from dying and will do anything to get there, even if it means putting his ship and everyone on it at risk, and that includes Nixie. The use of maps to travel to all kinds of places was really interesting. The adventures they have when they get to their destinations were always full of interesting excursions and the connections to things that happened in the past or are part of myths and stories was very clever. Unfortunately, sometimes the details of the travel weren't fleshed out enough which would have added a lot to understanding what exactly was going on. The other piece that got in the way of an otherwise very good fantasy was the love triangle. Nixie and one of her crew Kashmir, are definitely drawn to each other, but when another young man, Blake, from the island they are visiting falls for her, it feels totally unnecessary to the story. She and Blake spend so little time together that the sudden romance between the two seems a bit unrealistic. Still this is an interesting time travel piece and if you are a map aficionado you will like this one.

Overall Book Score: good