The Snipesville Chronicles Series

THE SNIPESVILLE CHRONICLES SERIES

By:  Annette Laing

DON’T KNOW WHERE DON’T KNOW WHEN

FIRST SENTENCE

“Hannah Dias looked around at the packing boxes in her room, frowned, signed, and tossed back her hair.”

SUMMARY

from goodreads

What a nightmare.

Hannah Dias, California Girl with Attitude, and Alex, her laid-back brother, have moved from exciting San Francisco to boring Snipesville, Georgia.  Life doesn’t improve when they meet Brandon, a dorky kid who is plotting his escape from the Deep South, and the weird Professor, who has a strange secret.

Suddenly, the kids are catapulted thousands of miles and almost seventy years to England during World War Two.

They fall into a world of stinging nettles, dragon ladies, bomb blasts, ugly underwear, stinky sandwiches, painful punishments, and non-absorbing toilet paper.  They learn so much more than they could ever learn in a history class.  Not that they want to learn it.

But they can’t go home unless they find George Braithwaite, whoever he is, and whatever it is that he has to do with Snipesville.

A DIFFERENT DAY A DIFFERENT DESTINY

FIRST SENTENCE

“It all started with Hannah Dias’ ankle.”

SUMMARY

from goodreads

When you wake up in the year 1851 on a Scottish hillside….Or in an English coal mine… Or on a plantation in the Deep South, you know you are in for a bad day.  Nothing for Hannah and Alex Dias has been normal since they moved from San Francisco to the little town of Snipesville, Georgia.  Bad enough that they and their dorky new friend Brandon became reluctant time-travellers to World War Two England.  Oh, sure, they made it home safely (just) but now things are about to get worse.  Much worse.  From the cotton fields of the Slave South to London’s glittering Crystal Palace, the kids chase a lost piece of twenty-first century technology in the mid-nineteenth century.  But finding it is only the beginning of what the most do to heal Time.

REVIEW

A stuck up girl, a laid back brother, and a dorky friend make for an interesting group of time travelers.  I liked that each of the kids had such a unique personality.  While Hannah was the main character, Alex and Brandon also had opportunities to tell the story from their point-of-view – especially in the second book of the series.

Everyone knows that I enjoy historical fiction, and this series does a fantastic job of bringing history alive and making it fun.  I especially enjoyed the first book and how it portrayed World War Two.  I am a bit of war nut!  I also liked reading about Hannah’s experiences in the factory in the second book. 

These time travelers grabbed my attention and I couldn’t get enough of their adventures.  If you are considering trying out historical fiction, you cannot go wrong with The Snipesville Chronicles.  I hope there will be a third book set during the times of the Women’s Rights Movement. 

Thank you to Annette Laing for providing this series to me to review. 

RATING

5        Plot

4        Characters

5        Attention Grabbing

4        Girlie Meter

5        Ending

23      TOTAL

5        STARS

Melina