Genre: Science fiction
Published: 1962
Personal rating: 3/5
Yearly count: 71
Meg Murray, her little brother Charles Wallace, and their mother are having a midnight snack on a dark and stormy night when an unearthly stranger appears at their door. He claims to have been blown off course, and goes on to tell them that there is such a thing as a "tesseract," which, if you didn't know, is a wrinkle in time.
Meg's father had been experimenting with time-travel when he suddenly disappeared. Will Meg, Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin outwit the forces of evil as they search through space for their father?
For a science fiction book written almost 50 years ago this story held up really well. The science of the time travel in the book, the different planets and races, and the evil the characters face seem as ‘real’ today as they did when this book was first written. The story has the right amount of tension and lighter moments in it and always seems to be moving forward.
Yet having said all that, all this book did was show me once again that science fiction really isn’t my cup of tea when it comes to books. The only science fiction I like seems to be the science fiction on tv. So while I didn’t hate this book, in fact, I found it to be highly readable – it is the first science fiction book I can remember actually finishing – I didn’t really like it either. That, however, had nothing to do with the book and everything to do with me. So for everyone who does enjoy science fiction I would recommend this book, because it is charming and simply a good story. And that, coming from a science fiction book hater like myself, is high praise indeed!
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