Language: G 0 ( swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG (kissing); Violence: PG (final battle against the Time Wardens)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
APPEALS TO: SOME
Calisto loves her life in Pocket - a place out of time that time travelers enter before heading off to other times or back to their own time. As an apprentice to her grandmother, a costumer, she sees almost everyone who enters. When the time savant, a person who can travel to anywhen in the stream arrives, Calisto is immediately drawn to him, but is being chased by the Time Wardens - a group determined to eradicate every time traveler, in order to preserve the sacred timeline. Plus, another traveler is a danger to all times and Calisto and Fawkes will have to thwart his plans too.
It all sounds very exciting - but the beginning build up is slow. I was hoping for a book more focusing on costuming - it is - kind of - not as much as I would have liked. The exciting bits are slow to appear. Calisto uses they/them pronouns, for no discernable reason - it felt like it was a way to be more inclusive.
No ethnicities are specified in a memorable way.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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