The Girl from Everywhere

By: Heidi Heilig

Narrated by: 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 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.