Book: The Girl from Everywhere

The Girl from Everywhere
by Heidi Heilig

 

Length: 480

Format: eBook
Price: Free -downloaded from Overdrive

How I heard about it: it's on the book list I made from my YAL conference

Basic Premise: Sixteen-year-old Nix has been sailing with her father since she was two years old, but the thing about her father's ship is that it doesn't just sail the high seas, it sails through time. Desperate to return to a time when her mother exists, her father will stop at nothing to find a map that will take them there, even if it means sacrificing Nix's life.

My Take: 6 out of 10 (scale here)

This book was recommended at my young adult literature conference and one of my best readers this year read it and loved it. I did not feel the same way. I liked Nix and her sea-fairer persona, and the concept was interesting enough, but the odd arrangement of language and sporadic style of the writing had me constantly rereading and trying to figure out what the heck was going on. I did go back and forth between the book and the audiobook (which I also checked out form Overdrive), so that might be able to account for part of it, but mostly, I had to work to hard for a story that didn't really pay out. It's not one I'm buying for my shelf at school (although it is clean enough to).

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