Challenge Corner discussion

A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's bestselling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

thank you Trisha for requesting this! I'm intrigued to see how this book is!

I'll be starting tomorrow!!

starting late, classes started this week and they are kicking my buns!

Remittance -

(view spoiler)[ well. . .so we're through the exile and him slowly making his way to the forest and hearing the sound.

what on earth was that? was that like a time wormhole? was he able to be a part of somewhere else? and who was Roberts? (hide spoiler)]

oh no. . .I just saw a comment from someone that this is a story tied to another book by this author: The Glass Hotel

I'm at the part of Mariella learning about Vincent - and it looks like it was in the first book. .

I'm going to stop on this one and wait until I read The Glass Hotel and then I'll pick this one back up.

Trisha wrote: "starting late, classes started this week and they are kicking my buns!"

I understand that completely!! I recently finished, but forgot to update my comments!! I listened to the audiobook while on a 6 hour car trip.

I've never read any other book by this author, but I do have The Glass Hotel on my shelf! I enjoyed how simplistic the writing is and makes it easy to follow along.

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I'm hoping to start this one within the next few days.

Interesting & very easy to read. Time travel in pandemic lock-down, well, what better time to go a-travelling? I listened to part of this while I was on a train & read the rest to speed things up a bit. I enjoyed both media: the narration was excellent & the written-word clear & easily understood. I'd probably give it a 3.5* rating.