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A review by dmwhipp
A Girl in Time by John Birmingham
2.0
I found Cady selfish and obnoxious and Marshall Smith a little too hokey. When she finds herself in old London, Cady decides to party it up with some instant friends, despite Smith warning her to keep a low profile and her own reference to the butterfly effect. She gives her new bestie (Cady likes the word bestie) a dance lesson and, "Soon she was twerking and grinding like a stripper on double time." Okay...
The second half of the book is quite a Trump bash - which I wholeheartedly agree with since I find him an utter moron without moral scruples - but it felt like more of a statement than part of the plot. Also, I have no problem with cursing and certainly indulge in that habit myself on occasion, but Cady's inability to curb it when Smith found it offensive was pretty juvenile. Additionally, it was quite coincidental that our main characters ran it to such historic persons/events in the span of a few days... which reminded of the Magic Tree House mysteries I used to read to my kids when they were younger. Except I liked those.
The second half of the book is quite a Trump bash - which I wholeheartedly agree with since I find him an utter moron without moral scruples - but it felt like more of a statement than part of the plot. Also, I have no problem with cursing and certainly indulge in that habit myself on occasion, but Cady's inability to curb it when Smith found it offensive was pretty juvenile. Additionally, it was quite coincidental that our main characters ran it to such historic persons/events in the span of a few days... which reminded of the Magic Tree House mysteries I used to read to my kids when they were younger. Except I liked those.