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Buckley-Archer, Linda
5 Reviews
(3)
YA
While far from home, seventeen-year-old Spark is offered a job by the mysterious John Stone. Charged with cataloging the mysterious man's journals, Spark learns that John Stone has had many lives over the centuries. This inventive story provides a nuanced perspective on life during different eras in Europe and rewards readers undeterred by the novel's slow start.
Reviewer: Breanna J. MCDaniel
(4)
4-6
An antigravity-machine accident sends Peter and Kate to the eighteenth century, where an honest steward, Gideon, helps them assimilate. But Gideon's wicked former master learns of their plans to return home and seeks to exploit them. Slow pacing and melodramatic narration disrupt the action, but readers may be intrigued by the time travel conceit and historical details.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
(4)
4-6
Gideon Trilogy series.
Stranded once again in the eighteenth century, Peter and Kate search for the time machine to take them home before Kate fades away--but their future may not exist once Lord Luxon uses knowledge from time travel to change the outcome of the Revolutionary War. Despite some overwrought prose and a paradox-riddled plot, the complex series manages to conclude satisfactorily.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
(4)
4-6
Gideon Trilogy series.
As the Tar Man (an eighteenth-century highwayman) begins a twenty-first century crime spree, Kate and Mr. Schock return to the past to find Peter. A machine malfunction lands them years later, when Peter is an adult. Time-travel paradoxes are explored, but not resolved, in this bridge volume, whose inconsequential crises lead up to a possibly more dynamic third installment.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
(4)
4-6
Gideon Trilogy series.
An antigravity-machine accident sends Peter and Kate to the eighteenth century, where an honest steward, Gideon, helps them assimilate. But Gideon's wicked former master learns of their plans to return home and seeks to exploit them. Slow pacing and melodramatic narration disrupt the action, but readers may be intrigued by the time travel conceit and historical details.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam
5 reviews
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