Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The Time Machine meet Midnight In Paris "Swift delivers both an unusual take on time travel and solid characters, including a fantastic protagonist." -- Publisher's Weekly
Paris was supposed to save Hallie. Now... well, let's just say Paris has other ideas.
She's linked to a hole in time and chosen by fate to prevent a terrible war. Tumbling through Paris' turbulent past and future, Hallie changes the world--and falls in love.
But with every trip, she loses a little of herself, and every change she makes ripples through time, until the future she's trying to save suddenly looks nothing like what she hoped for...
"A high-flying novel of love and peril--sheer page-turning entertainment that hooked me with its wit from the first sentence." -- Helen Marshall, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Gifts for the One Who Comes After
"A glittering novel of time travel that you'll want to devour like a mille-feuille in one single bite. I loved it." -- Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author of A Man Lies Dreaming and Central Station
"Swift's prose is well crafted, and her characters breathe a sort of gap-year-encounters-larger-than-reality hallucinogenic life: vivid, foreign, and faintly exotic to middle-class English girl Hallie." -- Locus
"Paris Adrift is a really cool book. It's Skins meet time travel." -- British Fantasy Society
"Swift delivers both an unusual take on time travel and solid characters, including a fantastic protagonist." -- Publisher's Weekly
"A very enjoyable read." -- Fortean Times
Synopsis
Paris was supposed to save Hallie. But Paris has other ideas. She's linked to a hole in time and chosen by fate to prevent a terrible war. Tumbling through Paris' turbulent past and future, Hallie changes the world--and falls in love.
But with every trip, she loses a little of herself, and every change she makes ripples through time, until the future she's trying to save suddenly looks nothing like what she hoped for...
Synopsis
Paris was supposed to save Hallie. Now... Well, let's just say Paris has other ideas. There's a strange woman called The Chronometrist who will not leave her alone. Garbled warnings from bizarre creatures keep her up at night. And there's a time portal in the keg room of the bar where she works.
Soon, Hallie is tumbling through the turbulent past and future Paris, making friends, changing the world -- and falling in love.
But with every trip, Hallie loses a little of herself, and every infinitesimal change she makes ripples through time, until the future she's trying to save suddenly looks nothing like what she hoped for...