Many Waters (Time Quintet #4) by Madeleine L'Engle

"Dennys and Sandy, the twins are whisked away to the Andte-diluvian days where they get to be part of history, or at least, Biblical history. It was almost like a prequel to Noah and the Ark with the occasional Unicorn, of course. L'Engle does like her Unicorns."

2 Stars

Pros: Dennys and Sandy, the twins, finally get their own adventure./It was an interesting look into the Apochrypha. I would've thought L'Engle would have shied away from such controversial subject matter. Angels having pre-martial relations with human women, goodness me.

Cons: Mr. Murry's magical tesser-acting computer certainly took things literally but, I guess it's the whole, "be careful what you wish for" message/ Though Dennys and Sandy were the protagonists, I didn't feel like we really, actually got to know them.

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Sandy (Alexander) and Dennys are finishing up Hockey practice and go home to make themselves some nice hot chocolate, since its mid-winter in New England and that can be a very cold time of year. While they go to get supplies in their mother's lap, they type into a computer there, that their fathers' been working on. "We want to be somewhere hot, dry and not humid."

And wouldn't you know it, when they go to step back into the kitchen, they're magically whisked away and dropped unceremoniously into an unforgiving desert. Ahead, they think they might see palm trees, so they start trudging. They don't last long and are saved by a small man who summons Unicorns and brings them to safety.

Once they get over their horrible Heat Exhaustion, Sandy and Dennys find themselves in the days of Noah and the Ark. It felt like a prequel to the events leading up to the great Flood. And L'Engle handled it in her own interesting way. I liked that the Seraphim and Nephilim were all different colors. Again though, some of it was all a bit literal and at times the book had me dozing.

The Time Quintet has definitely not been what I thought it was going to be but it's definitely been unique, I'll give it that. I'm interested to see how L'Engle will close up the Series. Will it be a bittersweet but acceptable finish like Lewis' Narnia or a head-scratcher like Herbert's Dune. Only time will tell.

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