While Etta and her father dine with Tsar Nicholas II and get caught in the revolution, our Nicholas finds himself cursed to either kill Ironwood or die. The Thorns stole the astrolabe from Etta, but then someone steals it from them. Julian and Etta both find themselves in the company of the Thorns – the renegade family who have been fighting the Ironwoods for centuries – and a bombshell is dropped on them both: their leader, Henry, is Etta’s father. He isn’t the only person who makes a surprise appearance. It turns out that he didn’t die he was simply tossed through another portal, ending up in America in the early 1900s – the very same portal that Etta comes through at the beginning of Wayfarer. Speaking of Julian, we are reunited with the man whose death weighed so heavily on Nicholas for much of Passenger. A young, Asian woman with her own tragic backstory and questionable life choices, Li Min adds cheek and humor, as well as making it quite obvious that Sophia’s engagement to presumed-dead Ironwood heir Julian was most likely purely in name only.
The addition of Li Min, mercenary for hire, ups the diversity in more ways than one. This second book has everything that the first book had – well-written relationships, female characters who are both strong and flawed, an intriguing plot – and manages to somehow build on things. With our main trio split up in such a manner we are able to meet new characters, most of whom are a refreshing change of pace. When we rejoin our heroes, Etta has vanished and is lost in time, and Nicholas and Sophia are desperately trying to track down both her and the once-again missing astrolabe. Wayfarer mixes things up a bit, and in doing so I think really helps solidify the relationships from Passenger. I don’t know if I’ve ever read a more satisfying conclusion to a series. Wayfarer, the second book in best-selling author Alexandra Bracken’s time travel duology, was absolutely worth the wait.
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