The Mirror

Northwest Passage, Book 5

By: John A. Heldt

Narrated by: Allyson Voller

On September 11, 2020, Ginny and Katie Smith celebrate their 19th birthday at a country fair near Seattle. Ignoring the warnings of a fortune-teller, they enter a house of mirrors and exit in May 1964. Armed with the knowledge they need to return to their time, they try to make the most of what they believe will be a four-month vacation. But their 60s adventure becomes complicated when they meet a revered great-grandmother and fall in love with local boys.

In The Mirror, the sequel to The Mine and The Show, the sisters find happiness and heartbreak as they confront unexpected challenges and gut-wrenching choices in the age of civil rights, the Beatles, and Vietnam.

©2014 John A. Heldt (P)2017 John A. Heldt

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Loved this book! there are happy, sad, loveable moments throughout this story! You can feel the emotions from Ginny and Katie twin sisters throughout their travels. Im going to read the other 4 books!! I got this audiobook for free at my request so I am leaving this review.

Story Way too Long

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I had a hard time getting through this book. While the narrator is a good one, I just didn't care for the amused type of voice throughout the story. This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of AudiobookBoom

Time Travel, Great Characters! What's Not to Like?

The worst thing about time travel books for me is the confusion I experience when characters assiduously try to avoid meeting themselves in time. Casting aside physics and theories and all, I just want a book where it's ok for characters to meet either themselves or their ancestors, and I found one in this book. This is the account of two sisters who nonchalantly visit a fair in 2017 and are inexplicablly drawn to a particular mirror in a house of mirrors exhibition. As they look at the mirror, admiring particuarly the frame, one of them literally disappears into it. Her twin has no choice but to attempt to follow suit, and so she presses against the glass and joins her sister in Washington State, but most decidedly not in 2017 or any year close to it.

This, then, is a glorious story of two well-developed characters who are vivid and memorable because of the talent of this author. This is the story of a different America, one in which the young women find romance and experience heartbreak. Ultimately, they must decide whether they can even return to their time and lives.

Even if you're not familiar with this author, you need to buy this book for the sake of the narration. It is absolutely through the stratosphere. Whatever they paid this woman who did the narration simply wasn't enough. She breathed life into the twins and her delivery, presence, and inflections alone were enough to keep me glued to my book player. She has one of those lovely well-modulated voices that she didn't distort by trying to sound like someone else depending on the character she was narrating. This is an excellent book in print; in audio, it sparkles.

Book 5 of easy time travel goodness.

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I love John Heldt's time travel series. They are well written and easy to listen to... entertaining without a lot of details of how it works it just does. Don't I wish. I would totally recommend this book.

I was provided a free copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review via Audiobook Boom. This in no way affected my opinion of this audiobook.

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nice clean time travel story, for those that don't like a lot of descriptive sex in their books. I jumped in with this, book 5 as my first. I was not lost so the story stands alone. I do feel the need to go start at book one and get to know everybody! narrator does a good job. I was given this free book for my honest review.