The Ring and the Roaring Water
Age range 10 to 14 years
Diane Browne has just published as
ebooks on Amazon the first two books in her Time Mill Adventure series. Their
titles are – A Tumbling World… A Time of
Fire and The Ring and the Roaring
Water. Both books are in the historical sci-fi genre as the protagonists
travel through time in a machine dubbed the Time Mill.
Vanessa and Kerry two early teen
girls are sent to spend their summer holiday in a rural area of Jamaica with
their Uncle George and Aunt Edith. What started off as a boring holiday turns
out very differently when they discover that Uncle George, who they think is an
unsuccessful scientist, has actually built a time machine (the Time Mill) which actually works.
They agree to test the
machine, and in the first of the adventures, in A Tumbling World … A Time of
Fire, they are taken back to the past when a devastating earthquake struck
the city of Kingston in 1907. How they survive the dangers of that experience
and manage to return to their own time makes very interesting reading.
In the second book, The Ring and the Roaring Water, they
once again enter the Time Mill, this time to go back to try to solve the
mystery of a lost ring which had created a rift between the families of both
Uncle George and Aunt Edith. The lost ring has turned up in present time in a
desk in their room, but someone in past time had been accused of stealing it
and somehow Aunt Edith was involved. The girls feel they that if they can find
out the truth of what happened, they can relieve Aunt Edith of the blame she
has carried for a long time.
The Time Mill takes them back to
the onslaught of Hurricane Charlie, a devastating hurricane which did a lot of
damage to Jamaica in 1951. They meet a family of strange children and
experience several terrifying events as they, along with the family, struggle
to survive the hurricane. Eventually they find out the truth of the lost ring
and return to their own time.
The settings in Past Time in both books
breathe life into these two important historical events for the reader. Vanessa
and Kerry are lively teenagers, and the people they meet in the past are quaint,
fascinating, helpful, sinister – a full range of characters who pull the reader
into the stories.
At the end of the books, writer
Diane Browne explains her interest in the two historical events and what she
did to ascertain their accuracy even while writing fiction.
We don’t often get stories in the sci-fi
genre coming out of Jamaica. Making the time machine resemble an old sugar mill
is a bit of creative genius as that, in itself, links it to our history.
These stories grab and keep the
readers interest. I look forward to the next book in this series as Vanessa and
Kerry continue their adventures via the Time Mill.
Check these books on amazon
The Ring and the Roaring Water
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