Review: The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig

Title: The Ship Beyond Time (The Girl from Everywhere #2) 
Author: Heidi Heilig
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Release date: February 28th 2017
Source: Edelweiss
Format: eARC

Rating: 4.25/5

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You can read my review of  The Girl from Everywhere - here

The breathtaking sequel to the acclaimed The Girl from Everywhere. Nix has escaped her past, but when the person she loves most is at risk, even the daughter of a time traveler may not be able to outrun her fate—no matter where she goes. Fans of Rae Carson, Alexandra Bracken, and Outlander will fall hard for Heidi Heilig’s sweeping fantasy.

Nix has spent her whole life journeying to places both real and imagined aboard her time-traveling father’s ship. And now it’s finally time for her to take the helm. Her father has given up his obsession to save her mother—and possibly erase Nix’s existence—and Nix’s future lies bright before her. Until she learns that she is destined to lose the one she loves. But her relationship with Kash—best friend, thief, charmer extraordinaire—is only just beginning. How can she bear to lose him? How can she bear to become as adrift and alone as her father?

Desperate to change her fate, Nix takes her crew to a mythical utopia to meet another Navigator who promises to teach her how to manipulate time. But everything in this utopia is constantly changing, and nothing is what it seems—not even her relationship with Kash. Nix must grapple with whether anyone can escape her destiny, her history, her choices. Heidi Heilig weaves fantasy, history, and romance together to tackle questions of free will, fate, and what it means to love another person. But at the center of this adventure are the extraordinary, multifaceted, and multicultural characters that leap off the page, and an intricate, recognizable world that has no bounds. The sequel—and conclusion—to the indie darling The Girl from Everywhere will be devoured by fans of Rachel Hartman and Maggie Stiefvater. Includes black-and-white maps. 

The Ship Beyond Time is the second book and conclusion of The Girl from Everywhere duology. Nix a young woman that had spent all her life aboard a ship, which her father the Captain can navigate through time and can visit both real and mythological places, as long as there is a map of the place they want to go, her father can travel through time to it.

In this book Nix discovers that she´s destined to lose the person she loves, but due that she had lived all her life watching her father suffer the loss of her mother, which he could not overcome after sixteen years and what losing her had done for him(he has an opium addiction), that´s why she had protected her heart all her life because she doesn´t want to repeat the same mistakes as her father, but when she receives a letter from another Navigator who tells her that there is a possibility of changing history and invites her to meet him in a mythological place to trade information, she immediately accepts his invitation because she´s determined to change her destiny and that of the person she loves.

I liked this book more than its predecessor, this second installment was riveting right from the start, perhaps because there is more romance, perhaps because they visit mythological places, perhaps because I was intrigued all the time to know what was going to happen with her loved one, perhaps because there are some chapters from Kashimir's point of view (I love reading his chapters, because we get to see what's behind his smile and jokes), maybe because there is no love triangle and maybe because it has adventure .. ..and all together make a great story.

Overall, The Ship Beyond Time is an engaging read about time travel, with diversity in the characters, is full of adventure, romance and with a bittersweet but satisfying conclusion.

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Review: The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

Title: The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere #1)
Author: Heidi Heilig
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Release date: February 16th 2016
Source: Edelweiss
Format: eARC

Rating: 4/5

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Sixteen-year-old Nix Song is a time-traveller. She, her father and their crew of time refugees travel the world aboard The Temptation, a glorious pirate ship stuffed with treasures both typical and mythical. Old maps allow Nix and her father to navigate not just to distant lands, but distant times - although a map will only take you somewhere once. And Nix's father is only interested in one time, and one place: Honolulu 1868. A time before Nix was born, and her mother was alive. Something that puts Nix's existence rather dangerously in question...

Nix has grown used to her father's obsession, but only because she's convinced it can't work. But then a map falls into her father's lap that changes everything. And when Nix refuses to help, her father threatens to maroon Kashmir, her only friend (and perhaps, only love) in a time where Nix will never be able to find him. And if Nix has learned one thing, it's that losing the person you love is a torment that no one can withstand. Nix must work out what she wants, who she is, and where she really belongs before time runs out on her forever. 

The Girl from Everywhere is the second book I´ve read this year about time travel and I really enjoyed it, and it also includes fantastic elements that gave a good twist to the story.

Nix is ​​a 16 year old girl, whom was born in Honolulu 1868 but has already traveled to New York 2016, Calcutta 1774 and other places, both real and fantastic places, provided that there is a map that covers certain characteristics Nix´s father can navigate his ship Temptation and transported through time all the crew, the only detail is that he can only use that map once. That´s why Nix´s father has desperately searched for the past 16 years, a map of Honolulu 1868 in order to return to the date on which the love of his life and mother of Nix died and somehow save her, and Nix is ​​willing to help him even though neither of them knows what can happen to Nix past and how it might change her future.

In this story there are introduced two possible romantic interests: Kashmir a young Persian, who has been with them for a few years as a crew member of the ship, he´s a skilled thief and a very good friend of Nix. Kash is a charming, intelligent and funny character who is always helping and protecting her. The other romantic interest is Blake whom is someone Nix meets in one of their travel and he´s interested in her at first sight. So be prepared for a love triangle.

Something that caught my attention was that is not explain how or why Captain Slate (Nix´s father) can travel through time and not only that, but that he can also travel to fantastic and mythical places, provided there is a map that meets the requirements; but ultimately I did not care about so much.

I really liked the idea of how the traveling in time is in this story, I thought it was unique (at least I have not read any book about this type of traveling), in addition to adventure, exotic locations and some intrigue, it was an entertaining book.

If you like books about time travel, pirates, mythical places and with diverse character you may enjoyed reading The Girl from Everywhere.

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