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Three Days to Never

by Tim Powers



      If you like your genre novels neatly cut and dried, Three Days to Never is probably not for you. It combines the classic spy thriller with paranormal and fantasy. Frank Marrity's mother has just died, and he expects nothing more than the usual sibling squabbles over property with his sister's greedy husband. Instead, he and his daughter are slammed into a worldwide hunt for an invention that could change everything about time itself. If you mention elements of the novel: the Kabbalah, shadow organizations, psychic spies, Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, and quantum physics, it's hard to believe they could come together in a coherent narrative. But Powers creates even more - this is a tension filled, completely believable trip through one man's worst nightmare. The only downside is Frank's daughter, whose characterization is uneven. Is she a staggeringly precocious twelve year old who thinks and reacts like a college-educated adult? Or is she a little girl with a teddy bear who screams for her Daddy when things get bizarre? Both depictions read eerily convincing but somehow didn't convince me they were different sides of the same person. Still, it was only a mild distraction on an otherwise exciting and compelling reading ride.

The Book

Harper
November 2007
Mass market Paperback
0380798379 / 978-0380798377
Thriller
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The Reviewer

Jan Fields
Reviewed 2008
NOTE: Reviewer Jan Fields is the editor of Kid Magazine Writers emagazine and has written dozens of stories and articles for the children's magazine market.
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