Living in Threes eBook Judith Tarr
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Three lives. Three times. Three teenage girls, past, present, and future, come together to solve an age-old mystery and save a world.
Meredith just wants to have an ordinary, relaxing summer. But her mom sends her to Egypt, to help her archaeologist aunt dig up mummies. She expects to be bored. Instead, she finds a greater adventure than she could ever have imagined.
Meru lives in a far-future Earth, where humans travel through the stars in living ships. All she wants is to become a starpilot. Instead, she finds herself on a journey to find her mother and save the people of Earth from a terrible plague.
Meritre is a singer in the Temple of Amon in ancient Egypt. She only wants her loved ones to stay safe. But her gift of foresight warns her of a terrifying future. She tries to find a magical spell that will save her family and friends.
Three girls, from three times, must come together to save their one world.
Living in Threes eBook Judith Tarr
This book was such an enjoyable read for so many reasons - my only wish was that it was longer or part of a series! Judith shines in this narative - part Sci-Fi, part historical novel and she is adept at writing from varying ethnicities - she has written many books but so far the most enjoyable reads for me are in this vein - thank you so much Judith, it's been a long time since I read something so engaging and well thought out!Product details
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Living in Threes eBook Judith Tarr Reviews
The life of a teenager appears to be pretty much unchanged from ancient Egypt 4000 years ago, to now, to 4000 years from now on a distant planet. Judith Tarr has written a story that shows that while humdrum teen life generally revolves around school, plans for the future, scoping out the opposite sex, and worrying about dances, ill relatives, and for Meredith, a fat white pony with a soft, lovely hide over muscles of steel. And a attitude to match.
But into all three lives comes a crisis involving a mysterious plague that depopulated much of ancient Egypt, vanished, and then seemed to appear on other human planets 8000 years later. And current-day Meredith seems to hold the only physical object that seems to tie the mysteries together. As everybody who was ever a teen knows, adults will listen to you only long enough to determine whether you need medical intervention, or just a forced change of environment. It's just you and your friends, who may roll their eyes, but will help without further ado, no matter their own doubts.
Nothing like dealing with the usual teen issues without the additional distraction of saving humanity, in three different epochs, no less.
The story moves along briskly enough that I rationalized, "just one more chapter before bedtime", leaving me with no sleep, a story that was entertaining and brain-twisting, and me wondering how it could be so short for such a good book. I leaves me wanting more stories set in three universes existing side-by-side, with one teenage girl that finally found the secret of communicating across time and space. And Meredith's beloved fat, white pony will be presenting her with a regal foal in eleven months.
My quest to read more self-published books is mostly demonstrating to me that there is often no difference in quality between them and traditionally published books. In fact, in certain genres, it is much easier to find more ambitious or unusual books, of equal literary quality, in self-publishing.
I am tempted to say that this middle-grade book is more ambitious than most, but recently middle-grade seems to be getting more ambitious, while YA, overall, is getting less so.
It's divided into three timelines, which bleed into each other from fairly early on. In modern times, American Meredith is sent away from her beloved pregnant Lipizzan horse and her mother, who is recovering from cancer, to accompany her archaelogist aunt on a dig in Egypt. In ancient Egypt, Meritre, a singer in the temple of Amon, worries about her pregnant mother and the pharoah's daughter, who is sick with a mysterious plague. And in a cyberpunk future that has cured most diseases, Meru pursues her missing mother into a secret quarantine zone.
This novel reminded me of a childhood favorite, Mary Stolz's "Cat in the Mirror," which also contrasted dual timelines, of the same soul reincarnated in ancient Egypt and modern New York. Tarr's book is more complex and ambitious. The three timelines are not merely compared and contrasted and paralleled, but directly affect each other.
The book starts a little slow, probably due to having to set up three plot lines rather than one, but becomes quite a page-turner by about the one-third mark. The themes are grief, times changing and times staying the same, the inevitability of death, and the equal inevitability of life going on reincarnation, and birth, and life itself.
Satisfying and complex. I especially liked the pets of the three girls a horse, a cat, and a half-insubstantial alien creature.
Entertaining sci-fi historical mystery contemporary coming of age story. The protagonist is Meredith, a girl in her mid teens. She has alter egos 4,000 years in the past and 4,000 years in the future. Together, this "triple" tackles a medical crisis that spans those 8,000 years. The alter egos are distinct characters, products of their environments, which range from ancient Egypt to a future that's interesting, if necessarily sketchy. The pace is brisk, the tone optimistic (in spite of personal losses experienced by some of the characters), and the outcome positive if not definite. The author is an accomplished story teller, one of my favorites, whose work has been largely in historical fiction, usually alternate history with some fantasy/sci fi elements. I'd like to see more of the future world she sketches here that fills in more details and considers the ramifications of people being so connected through what amounts to a hive mind (an extrapolation of the World Wide Web).
I didn't feel like the climax was particularly climactic but the storytelling is solid and the future Earth stuff well imagined without being overly distracting with technical concepts.
Overall a good book.
Edit after further reflection, this book deserves 4 stars, not 3.
This story uses three linked characters to solve a medical mystery. Switching back and forth between the character's narratives works well most of the time. The settings are described with Tarr's usual care and depth. Telling the story from the point of view of teens rather than older characters is different for her writing, and may not work as well for me as did her many other stories.
This book was such an enjoyable read for so many reasons - my only wish was that it was longer or part of a series! Judith shines in this narative - part Sci-Fi, part historical novel and she is adept at writing from varying ethnicities - she has written many books but so far the most enjoyable reads for me are in this vein - thank you so much Judith, it's been a long time since I read something so engaging and well thought out!
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