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A Girl in Time

By: John Birmingham
Narrated by: Vanessa Johansson
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On the eve of a huge breakout success, a poor but brilliant young game developer is pulled out of her world and time itself by a cowboy desperately searching for the daughter he lost 200 years ago.

Cady McCall is ready to be rich and famous. She has sacrificed everything, putting her work ahead of family and friends. Now, with breakout success and huge, insane wealth so close she can taste it, her life is blown apart by Deputy Marshal John "Titanic" Smith, the man who rescues her from two muggers only to carry her off into history. Lost on the seas of time, Smith is desperate to get home to his family in 1876, and now Cady is lost along with him, facing danger and finding love in Victorian London, ancient Rome, and the near-future America of President for Life Donald Trump.

©2016 John Birmingham (P)2017 Tantor Romance Science Fiction Fiction Success
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the narrator voice control for characters was non-existent so very hard to follow couldn't finish the book

couldn't finish

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I've read a few time travel books this year, this is one I didn't really enjoy. Katie for me was very unlikeable, I found the apprentice's the most interesting part and would have preferred hearing more about them . narrator did a decent job.

2.5/5

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Loved the story, found the main characters very likeable. Narration was good. Maybe not as thrilling as other books by John Birmingham, but this is a theme I enjoy.

Enjoyed this book

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Easy to listen to and well read. An interesting story line (though bit predictable in some parts) but overall a really enjoyable book that begged to be finished as soon as possible - quite riveting.

Another fantastic John Birmingham book

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The main character is a poor millennial with the inner dialogue that only a rich white boomer dude who can barely use Facebook could render.
She’s not a crazy feminist like all those other girls, she’s a cool normal centrist gamer girl just trying to get back to her own reality so she can enjoy being rich for the first time.

Not sure where the folks calling this socialist propaganda were coming from because that’s why I read it and now I feel ripped off.
The trump hate felt lazily overt and halfhearted, like the author and publishers were feverishly clawing to rope in a younger audience without really understanding what we care about and why.

The references were outdated before they hit the press in 2016 and there’s nothing more cringe than hearing “buzzfeed article” touted as some kind of achievement.

Ultimately it says and does nothing new or even interesting.

Men can write women

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Excellent performances, flowing narrative and blending of historical and current events. Twists in plot as needed with
skilful pacing of action and character development.

Refreshingly Different

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I did not enjoy the socialist propaganda.
The anti democratic garbage put me off. I had trouble finishing. Will not buy this Author again

too socialist

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I hope that there will be more in this series. Am a fan of WW2.1 etc and HRH Harry series and Dave bit this one has me hooked. keep at it JB

awesome story. when is next in series

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Took a while to get into but worth the wait. Auto preforms was very good. I would recommend this book.

Enjoyable book

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I wouldn’t have given this book a shot based on its blurb but it was recommended & I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

I’m not a fan of time travel in general but really enjoyed it in this cause. Rarely is time travel done so well and rarely are authors comfortable enough to leave some of the problems with the concept of time travel open ended. It doesn’t try to justify itself which is quite rare (though there are parts that really doesn’t make logical sense).

I’m not sure what the target audience is as it mixed young adult styles with an actual adult storyline but all in all I’d definitely recommend it - just be aware that it ends abruptly and that part 2 (the golden hour) isn’t on audible.

Better than you expect

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