"A glittering novel of time travel that you'll want to devour like a mille-feuille in one single bite. I loved it."
"As well as being a profound mediation on history and the need to defend democracy, Paris Adrift is also a gorgeous evocation of youth and growing up... a celebration of that particular moment in our lives, when we feel those connections all the more strongly because we know on some level they will come to an end." — Fantasy Faction
"An effervescent blend of revisionist history, fantasy and science fiction."
"A high-flying novel of love and peril-sheer page-turning entertainment that hooked me with its wit from the first sentence."
"Paris Adrift is a different type of time travel book, one I hope to see more of, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys Paris, the fear for the future, and traveling into the unknown. Be sure to check out the other stops on the tour!" — Utopia State of Mind
"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."
"Paris Adrift is a really cool book. It's Skins meet time travel." — British Fantasy Society
As well as being a profound mediation on history and the need to defend democracy, Paris Adrift is also a gorgeous evocation of youth and growing up... a celebration of that particular moment in our lives, when we feel those connections all the more strongly because we know on some level they will come to an end.
Swift (the Osiris Project series) delivers both an unusual take on time travel and solid characters, including a fantastic protagonist.
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.
Paris Adrift is a different type of time travel book, one I hope to see more of, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys Paris, the fear for the future, and traveling into the unknown. Be sure to check out the other stops on the tour!”
An effervescent blend of revisionist history, fantasy and science fiction.
An effervescent blend of revisionist history, fantasy and science fiction.
01/22/2018
Swift (the Osiris Project series) delivers both an unusual take on time travel and solid characters, including a fantastic protagonist. Hallie drops out of her geology program in college and runs away to Paris, where she lands a job at Millie’s (a bar that “will employ anyone with a pulse”). She meets a motley cast of characters, including flamboyant Algerian expat Angel and nice but mysterious bartender Gabriela. One in particular, Léon, the stranger who suggested she apply at Millie’s, becomes a huge part of her life. Léon was sent from the distant future, one of a handful of people capable of time traveling thanks to “anomalies” that are tied to individual travelers. Hallie learns that she is also capable of time travel—and that she and Léon might be able to save the future. Swift keeps things moving briskly, throwing out innocuous tidbits while scene setting that lead to surprising later payoffs. The ending is hardly surprising, but the story’s good enough to handle the slight letdown. (Feb.)
