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The Girl from Everywhere #2
A great continuation of Nix’s story! While The Girl From Everywhere was all about Nix finding her place in the world, The Ship Beyond Time was about learning the value of her relationships and what she’s willing to sacrifice. We really delve into the mythology of Navigation in this one, and it does become a bit confusing and difficult to follow from time to time. But I had fun piecing it all together (it’s hard to follow a linear timeline when time travel is involved). And I have to hand it to Heilig, she really dealt with the idea of time travel and paradoxes well and didn’t shy away from it like most writers might. In fact, this book serves as an almost philosophical look at the impact of time travel: Can you really change the past? Or does your interference actually cause the events that you are trying to avert?
Once again, I wish there was a little more time travel in the book. We spend most of our time in the mythological city of Ker-Ys, and I really wanted to do some more time and location hopping. But that may have taken away from the story that Heilig was trying to tell, so in the end I can forgive it.
The ending of The Ship Beyond Time was a tad bittersweet, but also left the story open for new adventures and new beginnings. This may be the end of our story for now, but should Heilig ever choose to return to the world of Navigation, I’ll be right there with her.