I found this book to be a rather poor companion to the Time Quartet. Polly is Meg's and Calvin's teenage daughter, and is spending some time with her grandparents, the Murrys, because she is too smart for school.
Polly has the genius of the other Murrys, but lacks the dysfunctional charm of the others. Polly is smart and pretty, but doesn't have any flaws to balance that out. Meg was grouchy, Charles Wallace was weird, and Sandy and Denys were, well, ordinary. And frankly, with all the weird crap that happened to that family during the course of the other books, I find it hard to believe that Mr. and Mrs. Murry could not or would not believe that Polly had found a time overlap that eventually trapped her 3000 years in the past.
This book was a disappointing follow up to the beloved L'Engle books of my childhood.
Grade D-, Ms. L'Engle.
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