sadly this one just didn't live up to the first book for me and as a result was a dnf, but I'd still definitely want to read more by this author

I was so excited for this book as I'm a huge fan of Heidi Heilig. The Ship beyond Time is the second in the series and after book one I couldn't wait to dig in. After losing Kashmir, I just needed to know what happens next. I imagine everyone will be reading this desperate to find out was Nix does next and how she copes with such a loss.

I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.

Following the events of The Girl from Everywhere, the crew of the Temptation, as well as Blake, are now adrift, wondering where to go next, and if their actions in Hawaii will lead to consequences. Travelling to Slate's native time, Nix learns that her grandmother once prophesied that she will lose the one she loves to the sea, and her heart is conflicted. When the princess from a mythical utopia appears in New York to speak with Nix and ask for help, she wants to do so, especially when it seems that the traveller in Ker-Ys has discovered a way to change the past - and Nix's mother may be saved. Can the crew trust the mysterious Crowhurst, or will they find this utopia is not quite as perfect as it seems?

I liked this one marginally better than the previous one, but still didn't love it. I think because I know the cast more, I can appreciate their quirks a little bit. Nix has improved, and I felt for her with all the twists and turns, and emotional upheaval she faced this time around. There's still a little bit of a love triangle on the cards, but it's clear how her and Kashmir feel for each other, and Blake is more surplus to requirements - really, life would've been easier for them all if he had been left in Hawaii when they fled. I didn't know anything about the myth of Ker-Ys, or about Donald Crowhurst, so it was nice to learn a bit more about them. I was also surprised with the inclusion of Captain James Cook, who did some awful things in his explorations, but he was an important seafarer, and local to me. All in all, I liked the book, but I do feel like there were still some questions left unanswered on the final page.

This book just wasn’t for me, the writing style and me just didn’t mix but I can see how this would be enjoyable for many others

I'm not sure I liked this one as much as the first??? There was a LOT of romance in it, which bores me. I'm not a romantic book person, even if it's LGBT romance!! Anyway, it IS a YA book so I can't really complain since me, a 26 year old cynical woman, don't really fall in the target demographic. Apart from that, it was pretty fun! The mythical location this time was in France which was pretty cool. Honestly I'm just glad that loose ends were tied up and everything made sense in the end.

Long story short, this is a fun small series that you could probably eat in a weekend that is diverse in the best ways and has time travel. Time travel is always fun. And yes the laws of time travel are fiddled with but it works out.

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Last year I read the first book in this series, The Girl From Everywhere (see review) and thoroughly enjoyed it. So naturally the second book in this duology The Ship Beyond Time was high on my 2017 TBR list. I was really excited to revisit Nix, Slate and Kashmir and join them on their time-travelling (navigation) adventures, but sadly I just didn’t enjoy this book as much as the first.

My main issue was that I found this book confusing. Now, you all know that my brain’s rather foggy, so this could be entirely a personal issue. However, I found it hard to keep up with the time travel, the dates and, I guess, the chronological order of the story. Personally, I found it challenging and ultimately this affected by enjoyment of the book.

Of course, there were elements I enjoyed too. As with the first book, I enjoyed the blend of fact and fiction – the history, myth, and legend entwined within Nix’s story.

I also enjoyed Heilig’s writing although I definitely didn’t feel as connected to the characters in this second book.

Although this is a duology, I do feel we have been left with the chance of more Navigation stories, and although I didn’t love this book I’ll certainly be looking out for more of Heilig’s work.

I have to start by saying this is a worthy sequel to the amazingness of the first one, and then some.

Beginning with them on the run, Nix at the helm & their new member of the crew(?) Blake, it seems that Joss foretold Nix will lose the one she loves to the sea! Is she doomed to repeat her father's obsession?

I immersed myself into this sequel with questions like: Will Nix leave so her father may find her mother & what happens if she does? How I adore time travel conundrums. Also if Joss is as suspected her grandmother, is she the descendant of an emperor?

The sequel continues the story without repeating itself, but rather expanding on the already exceptional mythos. And we receive precious more info on Navigation & the time travel tricks it entails. We also get Kashmir's POV (yipee) and believe me it as wonderful as you imagine & the way he expresses himself is so swoon worthy.

Questions of fate & if you can alter it arise. And also what constitutes as real?

A captivating breathtaking adventure, with amazing twists, surprises, destinations & many scenes that will make you smile & chuckle (usually Kashmir is involved) And aahh those beautiful sentences "Our palms two halves of a living shell & something tender between them"

Please, please, please let this not be the finale of the series.

The perfect sequel to the wonderful The Girl From Everywhere. When I finished The Girl From Everywhere, I couldn't wait to explore more of the world, or should I say worlds, that Heilig has created and more of the mechanics of navigating. It's rare for a book to give you exactly what you want, but The Ship Beyond Time most definitely gave me everything I wanted and so much more.

I enjoyed the philosophical questions that were raised throughout the book. The questions about whether or not the navigators should use their ability to change things, whether in the worlds of myth or history were so fascinating. And Kashmir's doubts about whether he was truly a real person if he had been created by Nix turning up in his home were just heartbreaking.

I have just adored both these books. I'm not ready to leave the world of navigators behind yet, so I'm hoping that Heilig will write more books about Navigating, if not about Nix and Kashmir.

The following is my Goodreads review.

I really enjoyed reading this -- certainly a worthy sequel, although the immediacy of the start makes me think it's probably a good thing I only read book one yesterday, as I might have struggled to orient myself if I hadn't.

It's my favourite kind of time travel story, which is to say it's one where time travel provides the setting and circumstances for the plot, but not the plot itself, so you don't end up tangled in paradoxical knots. That said, this book plays a bit more with paradoxes than the first, and in some ways, less with actual time travel -- the lands the characters travel to are mythological rather than historical, which I found intriguing.

As with book one, I also greatly enjoyed that it takes place on a pirate ship, even if it's docked most of the time so there's minimal sailing.

The setting in some ways is a bit less detailed -- book one takes place in Hawaii and Heilig is from there, so I guess the level of detail is to be expected, whereas when it's taking place mainly in a mythological island, specific cultural details and nuances of the setting are less likely. It's still quite a richly described world that avoids veering into purple prose, though.

I have to admit, there were a few things I found somewhat difficult to follow, and a few characters I couldn't quite keep track of what had happened to them. This was partly because I'm tired and struggling a lot with brain fog recently (I swear my intelligence is about half its usual level in these recent weeks; I've been struggling to understand things I usually find perfectly clear), and partly because of the aforementioned paradoxes and the idea of alternate timelines and the fact that nothing is quite what it seems to be. These mostly didn't limit my enjoyment of the book, though.

Something I liked was that this book came very close to love triangle territory but mostly avoided it -- that is to say, I liked that it avoided it, not that it came close. It would have been very easy for it to fall into more predictable patterns, but while there was a certain amount of tension and rivalry, it didn't get in the way. So, that's good.

I'll try and write a more detailed and structured review for my blog once I'm no longer on book blogging hiatus (probably April), but yeah, on the whole, an enjoyable sequel to a book I very much liked, which effectively distracted me from my work for three hours and also made me late to bed. (Damn it, Heilig.)

Heidi Heilig`s follow up to The Girl From Everywhere promises adventure, myth, complex family dynamics and doomed love...and deliverables that and more. Nix continues to be an intelligent, head-strong protagonist who struggles between following her heart an he head. The added Kash POV made for an engaging romance, but its Nix`s complicated relationship with her father Slate that continues to steal the show. I can't wait to see where Nix navigates to next.

3 stars out of 5

While I did enjoy The Ship Beyond Time overall, I have to admit that at times, I found it confusing and a bit difficult to follow. As a result, I don’t think it was as good as The Girl from Everywhere, but I have liked reading this series as a whole and would still recommend it to fans of time-travel and adventures on ships.

Nix was one of the reasons I kept on with this book even when I found it a bit unclear at times. I really liked her character, and her relationship with her father was very interesting in this book. In book one, I really didn’t like Slate, and to be honest, I still wasn’t his biggest fan in this book either, but I did like seeing how the relationship between father and daughter had changed and how Nix was adapting to this. One thing that I will point out is that I predicted the meaning of Joss’s fortune (Nix losing the one she loves) from the start, so the ending wasn’t really a surprise to me. While this didn’t affect my enjoyment of the book as a whole, I did I kind of spent the whole time waiting for Nix to realise what was going to happen.

Kashmir got his own point of view in this book, and while it was nice to see from his POV, I felt his character wasn’t really as developed as he could be. I really wanted to know more about Kashmir but I felt like this book was all about his relationship with Nix and whether or not he could be saved and I don’t know. He got a bit cheesy at times, and I would have loved to explore his backstory more and what that meant in relation to his feelings for Nix (he touched on this in his own chapters, expressing his concerns about it, but I would have liked more detail). He was a great character though, and continued to be that voice of reason who always offered good advice.

Blake was Blake. I didn’t really like him in the first book, and I didn’t much like him in this book either. I understood why he was there though, and it was actually a bit sad to see that he was really similar to Nix and they could have been close friends in another life, if things had been different.

Plot-wise, this is where I was confused. I really struggled with the mythical places and travelling there by map, the whole Ancient Greece debacle, how they somehow managed to change the past but people retained memories in dreams (and there were all these alternate universes they could see in dreams - what?! This never came up in the first book!) and how <spoiler>Nix’s mother was somehow saved with no consequences. How? Plus, whatever happened to Dahut? I liked her</spoiler>. Navigation was also never fully explained and in the end I was just reading without understanding because I was too confused by it all. I doubt everyone will have the same problem, but I’ve always needed really clear explanations when it comes to books like this; I don’t like being forced to fill in blanks myself or pick up on really subtle hints or metaphors or whatever. It gets lost on me. I also found the ending a bit abrupt, especially since there’s not going to be another book.

Overall, while I did like this book, I did have a few problems with it. It’s a good read to pass the time, but I found it too confusing to fully appreciate (perhaps if I were more familiar with the myths in question, I’d be less puzzled everything).

The Ship Beyond Time

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for my preview copy in return for an honest review.

This is the sequel to The Girl From Everywhere and I was really excited when I saw it on Netgalley.

But when I started reading this I realised that like the first book this one was just not going to do it for me.

I gave The Girl From Everwhere 2 stars but I am going to give The Ship Beyond Time 3 as it is better than the first book.

I really do not know what it is I didn't like. I love the concept of the ship going through time, the love triangle and the magical lands that they go to.

And Kash!

But, it just doesn’t do it for me.

I would recommend it as I think it was just me. In fact I was going to get both of them for my daughter (she is 20).

I still read it even after not enjoying the first book which says a lot.

This is such a satisfying sequel to the girl from everywhere. I lovd the world builing and the whole set up with the time travelling, fantasy world visiting pirate ship. Nix takes a more active leadership role in this book, determined to save Kashmir whom she loves from the fate that says she will kill him. I thought the relationship between the two of them was well done and progressed nicely. All in all a great fantasy adventure.

I liked the writing style and how the story flowed. I wasn't fond of the characters But I liked Blake and think that he should've been given more scenes. The book could have been better without the romance as the story focused a bit too much on it and seemed forced.

I disliked how Nix's personality grew angstier and more focused toward saving those she loved – making me miss Nixie from Book 1.

Wow. I am currently in a state of awe. I finished reading The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig yesterday, and I'm still reeling over just how good it was. This book is incredible!

In The Girl From Everywhere, Slate wants to get back to 1868 Honolulu, Hawaii, so he can save his wife, Lin, before she dies, but they never make it. In The Ship Beyond Time, Heigil takes what is just an idea in the first - wanting to try to change history - and runs with it. Another navigator, Donald Crowhurst has sent a message to Nix - he needs her help, and in exchange, he will teach her how to change history, as he has done in the mythical utopia Ker Ys, stopping the flood that destroys the city from happening. Nix has just found out from her father that she is destined to lose the one she loves to see sea. Fearing losing Kash and becoming like her father, to spend her life desperately trying to find a way to bring Kash back after he dies, Nix takes Crowhurst up on his offer. But there's more going on at Ker Ys than meets the eye, and Crowhurst doesn't seem to be telling her everything.

There are so many aspects of this book that I love. I adored all the questions surround time, fate, and the past. It really appealed to the part of me that loves Doctor Who and all that "wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff". It gets you thinking about cause and affect; if you change the something in the past, even something small, what will that mean for the future? And when your future is someone else's past, it's going to happen, right? But what if you try to prevent your future from happening, what will that mean for the past that has already been? And if you're a time traveller, and something is going to happen in your future, in your timeline, but it happens while you've travelled into the past, and therefore happens at some point in history - and in a sense, has already happened - does that mean destiny and fate exist? And if so, can you outrun fate? Does the simple fact of knowing your fate set things on a course that makes it come about? Oh my gosh, it's all so clever! A clever, intricate, and skillfully woven story that isn't as complicated or as confusing as I make it sound. But I live for this stuff, so every twist and turn, I lapped it up, creating theory upon theory of where things will go, what certain things mean, and just revelling in this incredibly imaginative story!

And Heilig is so clever! I've only covered the time elements, but this story evolves around a mythological city - a city that never existed - and trying to change what happens there. It's a myth! It's a story, it's been written and told, and it's known, but it's fictional. If the story is changed, what would that mean for the real world? For those who retold and wrote the story down? Well, in a sense, this is covered, in regards to history books. But it's just all so big! Trying to imagine it all and I am just full of questions, and it's incredible! But not only does this story focus on a myth and trying to change the myth, one of the important characters in this books actually existed. Donald Crowhurst was a real man, who disappeared at sea during a round-the-world sailing race. A real person changes a myth. This just makes me unbelievably happy, and it makes me laugh. It's just wonderful!

As exciting and adventurous as this story is, it's also incredibly emotional. This is Nix's life; her future, the future of Kash, the one she loves. There are also parts of this book that are just absolutely beautiful and makes your heart fit to burst, but then incredibly heartbreaking. It's too much, it's just too much, but in the best possible way.

Heilig is an expert storyteller, effortlessly weaving romance, time-travel, adventure, myth, fantasy and history together to make an incredibly exciting, suspenseful, emotional, beautiful story. She captured my imagination yet again and took me on one hell of a ride. I just can't express how incredible this book - this duology - is. It's epic - epic - and I am so, so sad that that's the last of Nix, Kash and the others that we'll see. The Ship Beyond Time is simply perfect.

Thank you to Hot Key Books via NetGalley for the eProof.