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The Time Keeper #2
Child of Tomorrow
To Jeanette and her friends, yesterday seemed like forever - but tomorrow could be the end of time.
Stranded forever in a place beyond the touch of all familiar things and people, Jeanette and Amy hadn't counted on losing the timeway. But, even worse, now their friend Jesse is trapped in a world not his own.
After much searching, the girls find another set of timeways where, at an ordinary-looking carnival, they take a bizarre carousel ride that flings them first into the past, then the present, and finally the future. With the help of Amy's magic rock, Selma, the three friends struggle to recapture the present they might never have had. But once again they get caught in a tangled web of time and place, and soon discover that the future is the most dangerous time of all...
Stranded forever in a place beyond the touch of all familiar things and people, Jeanette and Amy hadn't counted on losing the timeway. But, even worse, now their friend Jesse is trapped in a world not his own.
After much searching, the girls find another set of timeways where, at an ordinary-looking carnival, they take a bizarre carousel ride that flings them first into the past, then the present, and finally the future. With the help of Amy's magic rock, Selma, the three friends struggle to recapture the present they might never have had. But once again they get caught in a tangled web of time and place, and soon discover that the future is the most dangerous time of all...
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 6, 1985
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April 25, 2024After their adventures in the first book, Jeanette can't help worrying about their friend Jesse's fate - did he make it back to his own time and his own world in the 1850s? Then Jeanette and her friend Amy find a different way through time, and end up finding Jesse again - only for Jesse to end up in their own time, in 1980s Dallas.
This book is even more ambitious than the first, adding in an alien baby, a disembodied guardian spirit that manifests as a talking stone, and the fish out of water novelty of Jesse in high school. And it keeps the complications of Jeanette's home life and her resentment at her mother. It doesn't all quite work, it's just so short - that 1980s book length! - that many ideas can't get fully explored. But I thought it was really fun and ambitious.
This book is even more ambitious than the first, adding in an alien baby, a disembodied guardian spirit that manifests as a talking stone, and the fish out of water novelty of Jesse in high school. And it keeps the complications of Jeanette's home life and her resentment at her mother. It doesn't all quite work, it's just so short - that 1980s book length! - that many ideas can't get fully explored. But I thought it was really fun and ambitious.
July 29, 2020
Read the first book when I was a kid but the library didn't have the sequels, so this was actually a first read for me. While not as good as the first book, this was still quite an entertaining read. There do seem to be frequent typos in this book as well, but they don't keep you from figuring out what is going on.
August 5, 2019
#2 The Time Keeper
There is still a lot of grammatical errors and typos in this second story, but it's still entertaining enough to look past them.
It's a quick read, with short chapters and the plot is tight enough that my mind didn't wander.
I'll be interested to see how final book plays out.
One thing that bothered me is that Tina, who was Jean's BF in the first book has all but disappeared in this one. That bothers me when an author introduces a character and then discards the character without much of an explanation. Tina was in this book a little bit, but not long at all.
I enjoyed the Selma character, and hope I get to learn more about Amy's world.
Three stars.
There is still a lot of grammatical errors and typos in this second story, but it's still entertaining enough to look past them.
It's a quick read, with short chapters and the plot is tight enough that my mind didn't wander.
I'll be interested to see how final book plays out.
One thing that bothered me is that Tina, who was Jean's BF in the first book has all but disappeared in this one. That bothers me when an author introduces a character and then discards the character without much of an explanation. Tina was in this book a little bit, but not long at all.
I enjoyed the Selma character, and hope I get to learn more about Amy's world.
Three stars.
February 21, 2014
I need to reread these books. I loved them when I was young, but its been so hard to find them since.
August 7, 2017
See my review for The Time Keeper Book 1 in this series.
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