Shanna Lauffey
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Akalya does this sort of thing routinely, 'shifting' back and forth through both time and space. No time machines are involved though, unless you count the mind as one; like all the Harekaiian, she discovered this talent, unprompted, as a child and has been honing it ever since.
Sounds too easy? It isn't, the ability is severely limited: you can't shift blind, you visualise your destination so need to have visited it, or at least seen it, before; you can't, for example, shift through a locked door if you've never been in the room beyond - peer through the window first though... For the same reason, your wanderings are restricted to your own lifetime, between the dates of your own birth and death.
Sounds wonderful then? It must have been - until someone began abducting Harekaiian and blocking their shifting ability. How? Why? And most ominously (since Akalya and her kind are secretive, living in the interstices of our own civilisation) how did the kidnappers even learn of their existence in the first place? When several are abducted before Akalya's very eyes, it becomes her quest to find out.
Although Akalya shifts back to 1965 to set up a 'safe house' just a few doors down from the one she grew up in, El Porto is described without sentimentality: the beach sand with its faint tarry smell, the oily foam which sometimes washes in from tankers at a nearby refinery. What impressed me most about Lauffey's writing though is its pace - a measured, unhurried style which matches the black-and-white family-album style photographs of the book perfectly. I liked some of the finer details of time-shifting too, things the reader might never think of at all but which are second nature to Akalya - and help make a story like this feel so authentic - such as the way she uses street corners (clever!).
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off down the pub - I can always post this review later...or, of course, earlier...… (mehr)