The Girl from Everywhere

By: Heidi Heilig

Narrated by: Kim Mai Guest

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

Heidi Heilig's debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City to 19th-century Hawaii to places of myth and legend.

Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father's ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end.

The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility. Its witty, fast-paced dialogue, breathless adventure, multicultural cast, and enchanting romance will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir, Rae Carson, and Rachel Hartman.

Nix's life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix's father can sail his ship, the Temptation, to any place, any time. But now he's uncovered the one map he's always sought - 1868 Honolulu, before Nix's mother died in childbirth.

Nix's life - her entire existence - is at stake. No one knows what will happen if her father changes the past. It could erase Nix's future, her dreams, her adventures...her connection with the charming Persian thief, Kash, who's been part of their crew for two years. If Nix helps her father reunite with the love of his life, it will cost her her own.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©2016 Heidi Heilig (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers

I liked it

The narrator is very good in distinguishing voices. My favorite voice us the main character since the earnestness but quiet strength well. The characters are interesting snd story explored a history rarely explored. The method of time travel is interesting but very restrictive. One gripe is that they visited more places and times but due to set limitations can’t.

Blends ships and time travel seamlessly!

I quite enjoyed The Girl from Everywhere. I’m fascinated with time travel and ships, and Heidi Heilig blended them together beautifully. She didn’t just imagine a ship that travels through time, but she incorporated old navigational maps into the story. It wasn’t just a ship that happened to also be a time machine, it actually sailed across time to historic destinations depicted on maps, which you can’t get to otherwise. I also like how the mechanics of time travel are constant in this book. It’s not just a chaotic, “anything goes” type of time travel that makes your head spin because you can’t keep up with what is and isn’t possible. (Take notes Marvel Cinematic Universe…) The time travel actually makes since. Heidi Heilig used the self-consistency principle, where the events in one character’s future can affect the course of another character’s past, even before the first character’s future happens. She could have explained the complete timeline at the end of the book a little better, but as a time travel author myself I can definitely sympathize with the extreme difficulty of explaining the complicated timeline of a time traveler.

Good story, HORRIBLE reader.

Would you try another book from Heidi Heilig and/or Kim Mai Guest?

This reader should have consulted with the author or someone knowledgable of the Hawaiian language, because her enunciation sucked! Seriously, it was difficult to listen to.

Loved it!

I loved the story and especially loved the reader. Can’t wait to listen to the next one.

This is a RE-READ kind of book.

I have been a huge fan of Heidi Heilig since I discovered The Girl From Everywhere, whenever I get a chance I recommend this book or try to buy it for friends! The characters are very dimensional, and the main characters as well as the supporting characters are very fleshed out. The potential for an annoying love triangle is circumvented in a very good way without dragging on or diminishing the main plot of the book. There is just so much to enjoy about this AAPI lead book that gives POC a chance to imagine themselves in a historical fantasy world.

Good time travel story

I really enjoyed this- finished it in one go & it really helped distract me from a hip & leg in excruciating pain today. I’m definitely interested to see how the story continues in book two!

loved it

I loves it for I too am a girl from everywhere aboard SV Saga Sea

A little fiction, myth, travel, and romance

This book honestly reminds me of the Tamora Pierce Tricksters Choice series. It has a mix of fiction, myth, travel, romance and a strong female heroine finding her place in a world that thinks only men can do a certain job. I enjoyed seeing the evolution of the story and the progression of the main characters as they work together and against each other to bring the story to a climax and conclusion with a twist that I was not expecting. Listen to this book, you'll like it.

Pulls You In

I really love how this story is so gripping, it pulled me in and I couldn’t put it down! It’s been a long time since I had a book like that. Having a main character who is loyal to a fault, and time travel is done in a creative way, I couldn’t ask for more. It’s not hard scifi so don’t expect the physics / mechanics to be explained, but it’s lovely because the characters are not scientists and that’s kind of refreshing too, they’re just trying to figure it out like the rest of us.

I think this will be my favorite book

I think this will be my new favorite book for quite a while. Enchanting story, endearing characters, all around a wonderful story.