Good for children, acceptable for adults. ( )

Like L’Engle’s previous books, especially within this set, she weaves fantasy into a historical and scientific framework, utilizing her knowledge of information from history, physics, and metaphysics to bring the story a strong sense of reality coupled with the mythology. Also, her themes of love, self-sacrifice, and the social duty of an individual to help enact positive change emerge throughout the novel.Although this book deals with a largely different set of characters than the Murry’s, the setting is still familiar, and the general characteristics of the story remain similar to that of the previous four books. Even though this novel is only recently included with the Time box set, turning the quartet into a quintet, it still engenders the same qualities as the previous four. The books slowly decline in potency and writing quality with each iteration, so An Acceptable Time won’t be as good as A Wrinkle In Time, but it’s still a good, quick read. I recommend this book to anyone 9 , with its target audience likely being between 9 and 12.-Lindsey Miller, www.lindseyslibrary.com ( )

L'Engle weaves a story through space and time again proving how much the future can affect the past to change the future. It's a beautiful book developing characters we know and love from L'Engle's previous novels. ( )

I love this author. She is one of my all-time favorite writers and was my fantasy grandmother throughout childhood. She wrote a ton of other books besides A Wrinkle in Time (her most famous novel) that are all fantastic as well. This book is about Polly, the daughter of Calvin and Meg, and a time travelling adventure she has to pre-historic new England. I love how M L'E writes the druids (Druids in New England!) and the Native American cultures. Very similar to parts of A Swiftly Tilting Planet. ( )

An Acceptable Time is my favorite of the second-generation Austin/Murray spin-offs. It is written for an older YA audience, allowing it to handle ambiguously romantic plot elements far more gracefully than books like A Ring of Endless Light (which features the same sullen, dark stranger, Zachary Gray). The characters of Polly O'Keefe and the Bishop are true to the original spirit of the books with Meg. Polly will never replace Meg in my heart, but had I the power I would have An Acceptable Time replace Many Waters in the officially-marketed "Time Quartet." ( )