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A review by jonathanpalfrey
The Golden Minute by John Birmingham
3.0
If you like time-travel adventures with a dash of humour, and can tolerate danger and intermittent violence, this may be your sort of book.
Like [b:A Girl in Time|33305492|A Girl in Time (A Girl in Time #1)|John Birmingham|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1481399092l/33305492._SY75_.jpg|54040490], it's a roller-coaster ride of disasters and recoveries, unexpected twists and turns, which had me genuinely wondering at times how Smith and (especially) McCall could survive. If you're of a nervous disposition, take a sedative before proceeding.
For reasons of plot, we don't get as much this time of the enjoyable interplay between the contrasting characters of Smith and McCall; but the plot seems more coherent and really seems to be going somewhere in this story. The two of them are gradually gaining more understanding of their time-travel device, so there's less of the random walk that we experienced in the first book, although we still take in a variety of times and places.
At least one more book is promised in the series, and I'll be interested to see where this journey is going.
Like [b:A Girl in Time|33305492|A Girl in Time (A Girl in Time #1)|John Birmingham|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1481399092l/33305492._SY75_.jpg|54040490], it's a roller-coaster ride of disasters and recoveries, unexpected twists and turns, which had me genuinely wondering at times how Smith and (especially) McCall could survive. If you're of a nervous disposition, take a sedative before proceeding.
For reasons of plot, we don't get as much this time of the enjoyable interplay between the contrasting characters of Smith and McCall; but the plot seems more coherent and really seems to be going somewhere in this story. The two of them are gradually gaining more understanding of their time-travel device, so there's less of the random walk that we experienced in the first book, although we still take in a variety of times and places.
At least one more book is promised in the series, and I'll be interested to see where this journey is going.