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!
BIO:Andy Gavin is a serial creative, polymath, novelist, entrepreneur, computer programmer, author, foodie, and video game creator. He co-founded video game developer Naughty Dog and co-created Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter. He started numerous companies, has been lead programmer on video games that have sold more than forty million copies, and has written two novels including The Darkening Dream, a dark historical fantasy that puts the bite back in vampires.
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Review by Mallory Heart Reviews:
Review of Untimed by Andy Gavin
An IOBT Blog Tour
5 stars
Readers who enjoyed Andy Gavin’s novel “Darkening Dream,” be
sure to pick up “Untimed,” a time travel romance-mystery-steampunkish-science
fiction-coming of age story with an endearing set of characters, including the
self-effacing (and easily effaced) Charlie, a fifteen-year-old whose father and
aunt are-well-time travelers extraordinaire. Charlie only sees them for two
weeks in October and for two weeks near his birthday in January. Charlie
already should have been groomed for the time traveling research venue, but he’s
been kept in the dark, until on a class field trip, he espies a clockwork
gentleman, and follows him into a time warp hole, casting himself back to the
age of Ben Franklin, in 1725.
I would categorise this novel as for older YA readers,
involving as it does a time-traveling Scottish girl who also happens to be an
unwed mother. The novel is enjoyable for any readers from that stage on up,
though; and considering the protagonist/narrator, Charlie, is fifteen, then I’m
certain YA’s will find it interesting. It is definitely a neat way to pursue an
education in history, as Charlie and Yvaine travel through the different eras,
discovering that time travel is also real life: with its dangers, injuries,
fun, frivolity, and occasional fatalities.
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