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Jonah and Katherine are accustomed to traveling through time, but when learn they next have to return Albert Einstein’s daughter to history, they think it’s a joke—they’ve only heard of his sons. But it turns out that Albert Einstein really did have a daughter, Lieserl, whose 1902 birth and subsequent disappearance was shrouded in mystery. Lieserl was presumed to have died of scarlet fever as an infant. But when Jonah and Katherine return to the early 1900s to fix history, one of Lieserl’s parents seems to understand entirely too much about time travel and what Jonah and Katherine are doing. It’s not Lieserl’s father, either—it’s her mother, Mileva. And Mileva has no intention of letting her daughter disappear.
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Such a great book! It was so well researched, Haddix is very quickly becoming one of my favorite authors!
It's refreshing to find a series that keeps getting better with each book rather than worse!
I feel like this book is my favorite so far in this series. As the book progresses, we develop a bond with Mileva and her remarkable perseverance and sheer brilliance. Haddix shows us the human side of Albert Einstein and the imperfections of our role models. I especially like the sophistication and honesty she carries when addressing the concepts of fate and free will. My only complaint is that the explanations for time travel are starting to have little foundation, constantly leading back to the idea that, “time is messed up right now, so we don't know why.” I feel like this is becoming a bit of an excuse to limit the options of our characters. However, I applaud Haddix for the effort in trying to keep her story on track while maintaining the laws of time travel she has created in this complex world of hers.
