The Girl from Everywhere

De: Heidi Heilig

Narrado por: Kim Mai Guest

The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility. Its sparkling wit, breathless adventure, multicultural cast, and enchanting romance will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir and Leigh Bardugo.

As the daughter of a time traveler, Nix has spent sixteen years sweeping across the globe and through the centuries aboard her father’s ship. Modern-day New York City, nineteenth-century Hawaii, other lands seen only in myth and legend—Nix has been to them all.

But when her father gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end. Rae Carson meets Outlander in this epic debut fantasy.

If there is a map, Nix’s father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any place and any time. But now that he’s uncovered the one map he’s always sought—1868 Honolulu, the year 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.

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.

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.

Loved it!

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