Get
ready for a YA time travel adventure that will have the hours flying
by!
Untimed,
author Andy Gavin’s latest release, is finally out!
No
one remembers Charlie’s name. He falls through holes in time. And a
clockwork man is trying to kill him. But there’s an eighteenth
century Scottish girl who can bring him back home – assuming they
don’t destroy history by accidentally letting Ben Franklin get
killed.
Andy’s
previous novel, dark fantasy The
Darkening Dream,
has been well-received by fans and critics alike. Publisher’s
Weekly called it “gorgeously
creepy, strangely humorous, and sincerely terrifying.” Untimed
is an even more ambitious follow-up. It is a
lavish production with a cover by acclaimed fantasy artist Cliff
Nielsen and twenty-one full page interior illustrations by Dave
Phillips.
About
Untimed
Charlie’s
the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, even his own mother can’t
remember his name. And girls? The invisible man gets more dates.
As
if that weren’t enough, when a mysterious clockwork man tries to
kill him in modern day Philadelphia, and they tumble through a hole
into 1725 London, Charlie realizes even the laws of time don’t take
him seriously.
Still,
this isn’t all bad. In fact, there’s this girl, another time
traveler, who not only remembers his name, but might even like him!
Unfortunately, Yvaine carries more than her share of baggage: like a
baby boy and at least two ex-boyfriends! One’s famous, the other’s
murderous, and Charlie doesn’t know who is the bigger problem.
When
one kills the other — and the other is nineteen year-old Ben
Franklin — things get really crazy. Can their relationship survive?
Can the future? Charlie and Yvaine are time travelers, they can fix
this — theoretically — but the rules are complicated and the
stakes are history as we know it.
And
there's one more wrinkle: he can only travel into the past, and she
can only travel into the future!
And
in paperback here.
Read
the first two chapters.
About
the author
Andy
Gavin is an unstoppable storyteller who studied for his Ph.D. at
M.I.T. and founded video game developer Naughty Dog, Inc. at the age
of fifteen, serving as co-president for two decades. There he
created, produced, and directed over a dozen video games, including
the award winning and bestselling Crash Bandicoot and Jak &
Daxter franchises, selling over 40 million units worldwide. He sleeps
little, reads novels and histories, watches media obsessively,
travels, and of course, writes.
Learn
more about Andy Gavin at his website.
Get
all reviewer information here.
Ooh...this one is on my reading roster for later this Spring. Can't wait! ^_^
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