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The only life that that the sixteen-year old Nix, born in Hawaii in 1868, has known, has been life aboard a captured pirate ship named The Tempation with the crew, including Kashmir, Rotgut, and Slade, the latter being the captain and Nix's father, who was born in NYC in 2016. If the difference in birth years is confusing, it is easily explained in the fantastical quality of this sailing ship. It can ply the mist of time going anywhere and any time, real or fiction, if Slade uses is skill as a Navigator guided by a hand-drawn map. The ship travels back and forth through time acquiring items to trade or sale more valued in one time than another. For example, they might carry salt and trade this condiment for gold when salt was considered a more valuable commodity. Slade's ultimate desire is to find the map that will return him to Nix's mother in Honolulu when she died giving birth to their daughter. The map would need to be shortly before his initial presence since one can not return to a time where one of the crew exists.

As I said earlier, this book is a combination of several genres. The historical fiction aspects are well researched but the subject matter is primarily 19th century Hawaii. I found the initial book in The Girl from Everywhere series a bit slow in launching and tired of the political intrigue, but it eventually captured my attention with the bipolar father's relationship with his daughter. Both characters seemed to be searching for a place to call home, but didn't realize that it was to be found with each other.

Sounds intriguing. Disappointing that it is a bit slow.

Booknblues wrote: "Sounds intriguing. Disappointing that it is a bit slow."

I just reviewed the second book in the series, The Ship Beyond Time, which sounds better than the first.