Hawaii & The Girl From Everywhere series by Heidi Heilig Each blog in this series I will share an ornament I bought as a souvenir from one of the many places I’ve been blessed to visit. I will also talk about the books where the characters were in the same setting. You may not be able to visit the wonderful places I’ve been to, but there is always a book to take you there in your mind.
Ornament: The sparkly sea shell angel came from Kona, Hawaii, which is on the Big Island. It has many black volcanic hills and in some ways it’s not the stereotypical image that gets portrayed on postcards and calendars. I love the Big Island, but I’ve been able to visit Oahu and Maui too and Maui is my favorite. Each island has a peaceful calm. You can do the stereotypical tourist things or just soak up the scenery and do nothing, but you never feel like you have to hurry and cram in a full day’s worth of activities to truly enjoy the islands. I wrote a blog about this before so I won't spend too much time on it. Check out my archived blogs: carlasbooks.weebly.com/carlas-candor/hawaii-a-place-to-chillax-travel-blog-9 carlasbooks.weebly.com/hobbes-happenings/cat-log-travel-place-hawaii Books: Ocean, time travel, and paradise! How can you go wrong with that formula? I say you can’t. If you read The Girl From Everywhere and its sequel, The Ship Beyond Time, you’ll get to visit Hawaii and time travel. Nix, the main character gets to sail the ocean with her father while dealing with the loss of her mother. It isn’t an ordinary ship because with the correct map, they can reach a destination real or imagined in any time period. Nix’s father is in constant pursuit of the perfect map to reach the time before her mother died and save her, but in doing that he could risk Nix’s life. There is great adventure while they look for the special map, and in the end I felt it had imagination and creativity. I listen to all my books on Audible these days and the narrator portrayed the accents or gender of each characters superbly. I gave the book four stars, because it was good, but I reserve five stars for books that stick in my heart or mind in ways I never knew a book could. This book was entertaining, but it wasn’t one of my all time favorites. Settlers, I’m familiar with because I wrote it (hee, hee). Before I even knew The Girl From Everywhere existed, my mermaid and time traveler, Triana was being formed on paper. She had a different mission than Nix had, but she ends up in Hawaii on the day Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 in Travelers. In Settlers, she begins in 2012 Oahu surfing. Did I mention she has to share bodies with humans in every place that she travels? That's why she ends up in a surfer girl’s body at the beginning of Settlers. I threw in historical characters and fictional characters for Triana to meet throughout her journey, but I keep you guessing until the end so you will want to continue reading.
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