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 ( )

An Acceptable Time does have a good message. It teaches truth in that integrated, mostly-subtle way that good books should, and in this is similar to the other books in the "Time" "Series." (If, indeed, a series it really can be called...)

The difference is that this book is boring. Yes, it continues the story of the Murry clan, and yes, it involves druids and blood sacrifice and time travel, (in a way quite parallel to [book:A Swiftly Tilting Planet|77276]) and yes, it does eventually get around to a nice satisfying moral. But. Plot holes abound. The dialogue is confusing and repetitive, when it's not inane. If it had been condensed to about half the length, with serious dialogue editing, it might have worked. Read it because you love [author:Madeleine L'Engle|106] and the Murry clan, but not because you expect it to be as good as [book:A Wrinkle In Time|18131]. It's not. ( )

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. ( )