The Girl from Everywhere

Books | Young Adult Fiction / Science Fiction / Time Travel

3.8

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Heidi Heilig

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.

Fantasy

Historical Fiction

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Author

Heidi Heilig

Pages

480

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published Date

2016-02-16

ISBN

006238077X 9780062380777

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"This book was written beautifully. I will definitely be on the lookout for this author. In her author description it says she grew up in Hawaii riding horses and raising peacocks😍. So basically living the dream life. On the downside, there was a love triangle in this book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"

July

"I found it kind of boring"

Ruth

"AHH Okay I have never read a book that made me feel like this duology has. It is packed to the brim and literally on a different level. I recommend it to anyone anywhere. And the characters! 🤌🤌 There's a bit of a feud between two that is interesting to read about, I gotta say. If you're looking for terracotta warriors, the Kingdom of Hawaii, and modern New York City, this is the book!!!!!"

Amanda Schantz

"Time travel, woman of steel protagonist "

Poochamoo

"I had high hopes for this book but it just did not come together at all. None of the characters are fleshed out at all, which makes their drama (yes this book has a love triangle) very boring and many of them come off as ethnic stereotypes. In theory Nix's mother is a driving factor of the story but she's such a non-character they could have been looking for buried treasure with essentially the same effect. Nix is so reactive and never really seems to make choices; she's always being buffeted around by the narrative.<br/><br/>The author also makes the baffling decision to include no major Native characters, have her POV characters participate (with a small amount of reluctance) in what is essentially cultural genocide, and make the voice of Hawaii a white boy whose father is in the Hawaiian League. The way the Hawaiian culture is written about in this book as this thing that will inevitably die was disappointing."

awesome_user_984860

"excellent highly recommend"