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Time Stoppers #2
Quest for the Golden Arrow
Annie is no longer a Nobody--she's a Time Stopper, one of the last of a magical line of humans who can control time. And even better, she's found a new home in the enchanted town of Aurora alongside all sorts of mystical creatures, and made three new best friends in Eva the dwarf, Bloom the last elf, and Jamie, who might be a troll.
Then Annie wakes up to discover that the wicked Raiff has kidnapped her beloved new guardian Miss Cornelia. To save her, Annie has to win the trust of a riddle-loving dragon named Grady O'Grady, and search for the only weapon that can defeat the Raiff, a magical bow and arrow. But as Annie and her friends embark on this mission, she learns some shocking secrets about her past--and about Bloom's, too.
The clock is ticking, and Annie will have to hurry. . . She must rely on her friends--and herself--more than ever if she hopes to save the day before the Raiff destroys Aurora and everything she holds dear.
Then Annie wakes up to discover that the wicked Raiff has kidnapped her beloved new guardian Miss Cornelia. To save her, Annie has to win the trust of a riddle-loving dragon named Grady O'Grady, and search for the only weapon that can defeat the Raiff, a magical bow and arrow. But as Annie and her friends embark on this mission, she learns some shocking secrets about her past--and about Bloom's, too.
The clock is ticking, and Annie will have to hurry. . . She must rely on her friends--and herself--more than ever if she hopes to save the day before the Raiff destroys Aurora and everything she holds dear.
464 pages, Hardcover
First published May 2, 2017
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Carrie Jones
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I had been unable to get into my Goodreads account for years. If you have friended me, I have just friended you back (July 2021). If you have messaged me, I'm going to be working through those in the upcoming weeks.
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Carrie Jones likes Skinny Cow fudgsicles and potatoes. She does not know how to spell fudgsicles. This has not prevented her from writing books. She lives with her cute family in Maine, but she grew up in Bedford, NH where she once had a séance with cool uber-comedian Sarah Silverman.
The Meyers brothers are from Bedford, too, so you’d think it would make Carrie funnier, coming from Bedford N.H. Obviously, something didn’t work.
Carrie has always liked cowboy hats but has never owned one. This is a very wrong thing. She graduated from Vermont College’s MFA program for writing. She has edited newspapers and poetry journals and has recently won awards from the Maine Press Association and also been awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship as well as a Maine Literary Award.
Here’s the lowdown about Carrie…
1. Carrie can not drink coffee. It makes her insane. Do not give her caffeine.
2. Carrie is very responsive to loving strokes on the hair, kind of like a puppy. However, do not do this without asking first unless you are a ridiculously handsome man or an editor who is about to offer her a trillion dollars for the first draft of her novel.
3. Carrie is secretly really, really shy even though she’s pathetically outgoing in person. She has a very hard time calling people. So, if you want to talk to her, make the first move. And, if you’re her in-Maine female best friend, Jennifer, do NOT get mad at her because she is so bad at returning emails.
4. Carrie sometimes wears mismatched socks, if you do not think this is cool, do not tell her. You will hurt her feelings.
5. Carrie really, really wants you to like her books. Please like her books. PLEEEAASSSEEEE. She’ll be your best friend forever. That is, if you want a friend who is shy about calling and emailing and who wears mismatched socks and can’t drink caffeine and likes being pet on the head. Hhmmm….
6. Carrie is not above begging.
7. Carrie, like Belle in TIPS ON HAVING A GAY (ex) BOYFRIEND drinks Postum. It’s for the same reason, too.
8. Carrie loves Great Pyrenees dogs. They are huge and white, and furry and it looks like they have white eyeliner and mascara on, which is way too cute. Do you have one? Send a picture!
9. Carrie lives in Maine. She has a hard time with this in the winter. It is bleak in Maine in the winter. Imagine everything shades of gray and brown and no green anywhere except for in people’s noses. This is Maine in Winter. Maine in summer is the best place in the world, so it’s a trade-off. Feel free to invite Carrie to your house in the winter, but not if it’s in Greenland, Canada, or anywhere north of Florida.
10. Forget that. She’d still probably come.
I had been unable to get into my Goodreads account for years. If you have friended me, I have just friended you back (July 2021). If you have messaged me, I'm going to be working through those in the upcoming weeks.
Thank you all for reaching out and I'm so sorry.
Now onto the regularly scheduled bio:
Carrie Jones likes Skinny Cow fudgsicles and potatoes. She does not know how to spell fudgsicles. This has not prevented her from writing books. She lives with her cute family in Maine, but she grew up in Bedford, NH where she once had a séance with cool uber-comedian Sarah Silverman.
The Meyers brothers are from Bedford, too, so you’d think it would make Carrie funnier, coming from Bedford N.H. Obviously, something didn’t work.
Carrie has always liked cowboy hats but has never owned one. This is a very wrong thing. She graduated from Vermont College’s MFA program for writing. She has edited newspapers and poetry journals and has recently won awards from the Maine Press Association and also been awarded the Martin Dibner Fellowship as well as a Maine Literary Award.
Here’s the lowdown about Carrie…
1. Carrie can not drink coffee. It makes her insane. Do not give her caffeine.
2. Carrie is very responsive to loving strokes on the hair, kind of like a puppy. However, do not do this without asking first unless you are a ridiculously handsome man or an editor who is about to offer her a trillion dollars for the first draft of her novel.
3. Carrie is secretly really, really shy even though she’s pathetically outgoing in person. She has a very hard time calling people. So, if you want to talk to her, make the first move. And, if you’re her in-Maine female best friend, Jennifer, do NOT get mad at her because she is so bad at returning emails.
4. Carrie sometimes wears mismatched socks, if you do not think this is cool, do not tell her. You will hurt her feelings.
5. Carrie really, really wants you to like her books. Please like her books. PLEEEAASSSEEEE. She’ll be your best friend forever. That is, if you want a friend who is shy about calling and emailing and who wears mismatched socks and can’t drink caffeine and likes being pet on the head. Hhmmm….
6. Carrie is not above begging.
7. Carrie, like Belle in TIPS ON HAVING A GAY (ex) BOYFRIEND drinks Postum. It’s for the same reason, too.
8. Carrie loves Great Pyrenees dogs. They are huge and white, and furry and it looks like they have white eyeliner and mascara on, which is way too cute. Do you have one? Send a picture!
9. Carrie lives in Maine. She has a hard time with this in the winter. It is bleak in Maine in the winter. Imagine everything shades of gray and brown and no green anywhere except for in people’s noses. This is Maine in Winter. Maine in summer is the best place in the world, so it’s a trade-off. Feel free to invite Carrie to your house in the winter, but not if it’s in Greenland, Canada, or anywhere north of Florida.
10. Forget that. She’d still probably come.
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November 19, 2018
do I spy with my little eye... a possible OTP between... Annie and Bloom?!?!!
October 12, 2017
Reviewed by Meghann
Time Stoppers: Quest for the Golden Arrow is the second book in the Time Stoppers series. This book tends to over exaggerate the actions and reactions of the characters in the book to an almost comical level. There are also some fairly didactic lines that come across a little heavy handed. At 455 pages, this book might also be fairly intimidating for a young reader.
The prevalent themes include friendship, acceptance, confidence and kindness. Each of the characters displays a very intricate personality and character arch, which probably contributes to the high page count. Despite the lengthy structure and the forced comedy this book would probably find an audience with high level readers who enjoy fantasy and adventure. There is potential for another book in the series.
Carrie Jones is also the author of the Need series for young adults. The Need series is paranormal romance, but it appears as though Time Stoppers does not contain any elements similar to Need and so would be appropriate for a young audience.
Time Stoppers: Quest for the Golden Arrow is the second book in the Time Stoppers series. This book tends to over exaggerate the actions and reactions of the characters in the book to an almost comical level. There are also some fairly didactic lines that come across a little heavy handed. At 455 pages, this book might also be fairly intimidating for a young reader.
The prevalent themes include friendship, acceptance, confidence and kindness. Each of the characters displays a very intricate personality and character arch, which probably contributes to the high page count. Despite the lengthy structure and the forced comedy this book would probably find an audience with high level readers who enjoy fantasy and adventure. There is potential for another book in the series.
Carrie Jones is also the author of the Need series for young adults. The Need series is paranormal romance, but it appears as though Time Stoppers does not contain any elements similar to Need and so would be appropriate for a young audience.
April 19, 2017
A book i enjoyed reading. I liked the characters in this book and i loved how the main character Annie became the center followed by her friends in this volume. A wonderfully well-written tale of a young girl adventure and becoming a time stopper. A must read
April 6, 2022
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Annie's life has changed dramatically from how it used to be. Annie is the only human time stopper with a destiny to defeat Raiff the evil timestopper. But then, Miss Cornelia is kidnapped, and it's up to Annie and her friends to save her. Together; they must find a long lost magical mystical weapon. A golden bow and arrow.
𝐈 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐞. It was a lot more fast-paced, due to the fact that we were already introduced to this world. While some plot twist, were predictable. I did find the fact that the pacing was sometimes off. For starters, some parts of the plot were contrived. Such as Eva fainting every time she was scared. Because of that it ended up being just Bloom and Annie on a short adventure together... ! Sometimes there would be scenes where Annie unnecessarily cried, fell, tripped, which was meant to make Bloom look cool at the expense of making Annie look like she was feeble.
Canin released Annie, who fell on the floor in a sobbing heap. Her arms circled Tala's doggy side. "Let me go. . . You should just trade me . . . You should just let me go . . ."
Dramatic.
Some of these characters are violent.
"He's wounded you, I'll kill him." Bloom said.
Her hand. Got bit. By a child
"That blasted evil freaky demon!" Eva exploded, slamming her hand into her fist. "I tell you if I get within a mile of him, I'll crush him till his Adan's apple pops out and I'll use it as a puppy chew toy. I'll bash him until . . ."
uhh... wow
I am not a boy," Bloom shot back.
"Then what are you?"
"I am a elf." "I am a elf and it's time I start acting like one."
But Bloom is still a boy... so that doesn't really make sense.
Totally fine. Just have to pee, do girl things, I'll be right out."
*sigh*
Annie finally looked at who was waiting for her up there, looked at him straight on as if she wasn't terrified, as if she didn't want to beg for Bloom to come save her, but she couldn't do that, couldn't put her friends in as much danger as she was in. No way. She refused to be ThAt KiNd oF GiRl.
🤨
This book was a improvement from book one! I personally enjoyed this book better! I do hope in book three we get to know more about Raiff to make him more dimensional because I love villains who reflect the protagonist. I also enjoy the mixture of humor, and fantasy in this while also keeping it in the real world. This is a urban fantasy, but sometimes you forget because our human world gets expanded more on the magical areas.
Annie's life has changed dramatically from how it used to be. Annie is the only human time stopper with a destiny to defeat Raiff the evil timestopper. But then, Miss Cornelia is kidnapped, and it's up to Annie and her friends to save her. Together; they must find a long lost magical mystical weapon. A golden bow and arrow.
𝐈 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐨𝐧𝐞. It was a lot more fast-paced, due to the fact that we were already introduced to this world. While some plot twist, were predictable. I did find the fact that the pacing was sometimes off. For starters, some parts of the plot were contrived. Such as Eva fainting every time she was scared. Because of that it ended up being just Bloom and Annie on a short adventure together... ! Sometimes there would be scenes where Annie unnecessarily cried, fell, tripped, which was meant to make Bloom look cool at the expense of making Annie look like she was feeble.
Canin released Annie, who fell on the floor in a sobbing heap. Her arms circled Tala's doggy side. "Let me go. . . You should just trade me . . . You should just let me go . . ."
Dramatic.
Some of these characters are violent.
"He's wounded you, I'll kill him." Bloom said.
Her hand. Got bit. By a child
"That blasted evil freaky demon!" Eva exploded, slamming her hand into her fist. "I tell you if I get within a mile of him, I'll crush him till his Adan's apple pops out and I'll use it as a puppy chew toy. I'll bash him until . . ."
uhh... wow
I am not a boy," Bloom shot back.
"Then what are you?"
"I am a elf." "I am a elf and it's time I start acting like one."
But Bloom is still a boy... so that doesn't really make sense.
Totally fine. Just have to pee, do girl things, I'll be right out."
*sigh*
Annie finally looked at who was waiting for her up there, looked at him straight on as if she wasn't terrified, as if she didn't want to beg for Bloom to come save her, but she couldn't do that, couldn't put her friends in as much danger as she was in. No way. She refused to be ThAt KiNd oF GiRl.
🤨
This book was a improvement from book one! I personally enjoyed this book better! I do hope in book three we get to know more about Raiff to make him more dimensional because I love villains who reflect the protagonist. I also enjoy the mixture of humor, and fantasy in this while also keeping it in the real world. This is a urban fantasy, but sometimes you forget because our human world gets expanded more on the magical areas.
December 14, 2017
Time Stoppers (Quest for the Golden Arrow) was OK. I loved the beginning, but as I got into it, it just wasn't so good anymore. I didn't read the first book, so that might be the reason I wasn't a big fan of the book. I'm not saying this was a terrible book, but I didn't like it.
I think the concept or idea of this book was clever, but it wasn't carried out in a good way. Quest for the Golden Arrow didn't have a lot of descriptive language, and it was just straight out telling us the story, which isn't necessarily a bad think, but it made the story dull, where it could've been more dramatic.
I think the concept or idea of this book was clever, but it wasn't carried out in a good way. Quest for the Golden Arrow didn't have a lot of descriptive language, and it was just straight out telling us the story, which isn't necessarily a bad think, but it made the story dull, where it could've been more dramatic.
May 10, 2021
When Annie Nobody, who now knows that she is a Time Stopper, awakens, she feels like something is wrong. Soon, she and her friends - Eva the dwarf, Bloom the last elf, and Jamie, who might be a troll discover that Miss Cordelia, the magical Time Stopper, who is now Annie's guardian, after a long string of foster families, is missing. Together, Annie and her friends have to save Miss Cordelia from the evil demon Raiff. Action and adventure abound in this second book in this fun, middle grade series.
December 31, 2017
This was an odd combination of "Lord of the Rings" seasoned with a dash of "Star Wars. Although it was filled with stock characters, each had a uniqueness that captured the reader. It felt sort of like a whimsical literary cartoon. I enjoyed it. I'll have to get the first book to see how started. I spent an enjoyable afternoon with it as I tried to figure out how to stay warm in the midst of this frigid weather -8º as I was reading. I hope it wasn't that cold in Annie's Aurora, Maine.
August 31, 2017
great book that continues the story from book one.. I so want to see what happens in book three (there better be a book three). annie makes a great heroine and your companions each have their own skill set which none use perfectly, but together they make an excellent team.
good book to read for middle school and up.
good book to read for middle school and up.
October 5, 2017
Ugh! I have to wait a year to read the next book in this series.
October 18, 2017
I enjoyed reading Quest for the Golden Arrow. It is a book that is way out of my normal reading genre's. So I thought it was fun to read something like this. Thank you very much.
December 30, 2017
Continues from the first book and jumps into a new adventure. There is still so much foreshadowing and unanswered questions so of course I can’t wait to read book three.
December 6, 2019
I love it
November 30, 2020
It is awesome
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 11, 2020
I did not remember book one very well, but this was still a fun read. Lots of classic fantasy characters (elves, trolls, dragons, witches, etc) and and interesting plot.
January 26, 2025
Idc what anyone says, Eva is literally my favorite character. 😭 She’ll defend Annie with her life and she’s so funny it’s actually crazy
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October 5, 2017I received a copy of this book from Bloomsbury USA Children's Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
May 1, 2017
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