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A review by jdintr
The Heavens by Sandra Newman
3.0
After reading The Heavens, I lingered on Newman's theme for a moment: would the world be better off if people--just a few of us--could go back and forth in time to fix things?
She doesn't reach a conclusion in her book, but her exploration is really fun to follow.
The plot goes like this: when Kate sleeps, she goes back in time, engaging in a series of innocent-then-amorous encounters with a struggling playwright named "Sad Will." When she wakes, the world is different--sometimes worse, sometimes better--and Kate feels that her dreamlike interactions with Will could somehow make everything better. (Her boyfriend, Ben, and her cast of friends in Manhattan, circa 2001, never seem to disappear, despite the various iterations of America--which at one point actually IS led by President Al Gore (yesss!!!).
Lovers of literature--and a certain Bard of Avon--will love the references to a Dark Lady and the court of Southhampton that Newman explores here. Curious readers will enjoy exploring time along with Kate--and the speculation of other time-travelers whose names we might recognize.
This is a fun, light read.
She doesn't reach a conclusion in her book, but her exploration is really fun to follow.
The plot goes like this: when Kate sleeps, she goes back in time, engaging in a series of innocent-then-amorous encounters with a struggling playwright named "Sad Will." When she wakes, the world is different--sometimes worse, sometimes better--and Kate feels that her dreamlike interactions with Will could somehow make everything better. (Her boyfriend, Ben, and her cast of friends in Manhattan, circa 2001, never seem to disappear, despite the various iterations of America--which at one point actually IS led by President Al Gore (yesss!!!).
Lovers of literature--and a certain Bard of Avon--will love the references to a Dark Lady and the court of Southhampton that Newman explores here. Curious readers will enjoy exploring time along with Kate--and the speculation of other time-travelers whose names we might recognize.
This is a fun, light read.