The Map Across Time (The Gates of Heaven Series Book 2)

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Chi ama i libri sceglie Kobo e inMondadori. The Map Across Time by C. Lakin series The Gates of Heaven Series 2. Available in Russia Shop from Russia to buy this item. Or, get it for Kobo Super Points! In this series View all Book 3. But his teenage twin children, Aletha and Adin, know they must act. A hermit leads Adin to a magical map that will send him back in time to discover the origin of the curse. Once back, Adin must find the Keeper, who prot An ancient curse plagues the kingdom of Sherbourne, and unless it is stopped, all will fall to ruin.

Once back, Adin must find the Keeper, who protects the Gate of Heaven, but all he has is a symbol as a clue to guide him. One unexpected disaster after another forces the twins to make difficult choices. Through his trials and failures, Adin learns that nothing can stop heaven from accomplishing its goal, and that all events work for the good of those who trust heaven. An epic fairy tale with surprising twists, embracing the enduring power of love and faith.

Paperback , pages. The Gates of Heaven 2. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Map Across Time , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Mar 27, Tomi rated it really liked it. Well that and the fact that it was really a great tale.

The Map Across Time is a tale of twins who unbeknownst to their father, the king, to free their townsfolk from the evil that has enveloped it. Lakin does a wonderful job creating a world familiar, yet distant, but nonetheless appealing to the reader. One of the reasons I fell in love with this tale was that unlike other tales of good vs. Albeit a complicated read, perhaps best for an older reader, The Map Across Time is well written. The constant use of Hebrew will have any reader flipping to the glossary in the back of the book but the language does not detract from this tale of the power of a believer.

Kudos to Lakin for finding a way to merge a world of fantasy with the mortal world and the Heavenly word. Jan 06, Nikole Hahn rated it it was amazing. January 14, Honored. Lakin asked me to review her book, The Map Across Time. Most series usually use prior characters. You always meet the characters in the prior book before they become the subject of the n Book 2, The Gates of Heaven Series Release date: You always meet the characters in the prior book before they become the subject of the next book.

The Gates of Heaven Series are different. Lakin continues the story in the same LAND. She reeled me in from page to page. My husband loves to point out mistakes in most time travel movies, but he would have trouble finding the mistakes in this book. Adin was born with some prominent birth defects and one leg is shorter than the other. The book opens with their mother, the queen dying of some mysterious and evil enchantment. Why have I not been able to produce a cure?

In all her many seasons she had treated every known illness and handily counteracted poisons from noxious plants mistakenly ingested or, on rare occasion, purposely administered. There was no plant she could fail to identify; cite uses for its seed, leaf, and root; and prepare at least half a dozen infusions to treat every known ailment in this kingdom. For months this nemesis had been unreadable. Nothing Reya tried had elicited a positive reaction. She could almost sense a magical binding but could not suss it out. If magic was the culprit, then it was masterfully masked.

Reya had not wanted to admit the possibility, but seeing the Queen now in her final hours—the horrible reality of something evil at work, something beyond her wisdom to cure or even name—sent a shiver up her spine. A young hero with a weak leg and some facial birth defects saves the day in this story—or at least one of him saves the day.

The Map Across Time

She uses Hebrew in the story as their ancient language. Familiar stories from the Bible are ingeniously weaved throughout.

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I closed the last page and sighed. Typical and yet it was an untypical happy ending. I have a feeling if I reread and I will! The stories are far from simple, especially book 2. I will be looking for a book 3 in this series, and am thinking that these books would make a blockbuster movie!

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Book Provided by the Publisher Mar 27, Orbs n Rings rated it it was amazing Shelves: A woven masterpiece of true inspiration heavenly sent and well explicated by the introspect of Lakins. This is the first book from the author C. Lakin I have ever read and I love how the bible is intermingled with her tale. It is a beautiful story of twin siblings, children of royalty, who risk their lives in search of answers to why their father, the King and their kingdom seem to be falling apart before their eyes. Aletha and Adin are very close as are most twins in real life.

Adin who at one A woven masterpiece of true inspiration heavenly sent and well explicated by the introspect of Lakins. Adin who at one time as a young boy was treated lovingly and kindly by his father, is filled with sadness and confusion as now his father treats him like trash due to his deformities. The kings attitude becomes even worse after the death of his children's mother, the beautiful Queen.

The King becomes even more hateful towards his only son, while he is eaten away by his greed and egotistical ways. Imposing heavier taxes on the people of his kingdom, the King keeps himself hidden within his walls, where he uses the money for his obsession's, accumulating more and more useless treasures. Luckily for the children they have Reya a nursemaid who raises them with much love and care while their father ignores them throughout their early childhood. As the years move on and the city of Sherbourne grows deeper and deeper into debt. Aletha and Adin who at first think their father has gone mad begin to learn there is more to their fathers unrest and madness than just a broken heart.

One thing that never fails is his love for his twin sister, Aletha who never seems to see him as having deformeties and is always there to guide and comfort him. This tale is rich, warm and inviting and keeps you on your toes wandering what will happen next. I true example of what love can accomplish when strangers become friends for life.

I have definitely enjoyed the characters and the settings in this book, at times feeling like I was right in the story myself. Lakin has taken inspiring scripture from the bible and used it throughout this book to bring it to life and in the process teaches many lessons throughout this tale. If you should miss the interpretation of some of the Hebrew words inserted throughout the book you can go to the glossary at back for each meaning and a section on discussions.

I am hooked and look forward to Lakins next book in the series "The Land of Darkness. Dec 25, Beverly Frisby rated it it was amazing Recommended to Beverly by: The next installment in C. Similar to its prequel and other works by fantasy greats like C. In book two, we learn about the significance of the star, its symbolism to the Keepers and are introduced to the second sacred site.

Each book will show a different site—a Gate of Heaven. The main characters are fighting not only against an evil enemy, but also their own self-doubts and fears. As the story progresses, Aletha and Adin mature and come of age, learning they are capable of more than they ever thought they could accomplish. Lakin continues to paint vivid pictures with her words as she moves the characters across majestic landscapes. The characters that Adin and Aletha meet as they fulfill their destiny are as colorful as the landscape.

The use of Scripture and allegory in Ms. As the characters find their way home, Ms. Lakin hopes the reader finds their way home to God. While it is not necessary to read the first book to understand the second, fans of C. Lakin's books and fairy tales will want to read the series as they were written.

I highly recommend this treasure of a fairy tale to all readers and can not wait for the third book to be released. Dec 28, Holly rated it it was amazing. I can't wait to write this review May 22, Maxine Mathew rated it liked it Shelves: Adin and Aletha, the teenaged twins of the King, wish for some miracle to save their beloved kingdom from destruction.

Reya, their nursemaid tells them about a curse that was set in motion at the very beginning of Sherbourne under the rule of the first regent of Sherbourne. It is because of the curse that every King of Sherbourne falls prey to evil. Now, guided by the enigmatic hermit, Adin undertakes a perilous journey to the very origin of the curse following a map across time. His motive is to find the cure to the curse, so that he can save his precious kingdom from falling to ruins and also, save his father from the evil that is ailing him.

The Map Across Time may have an underlying concept derived from the Biblical text but it never becomes too preachy or solely depended upon that concept. The book discusses the evil residing in each one of us which, if not fought against can lead us to our doom. The Map Across Time teaches us the basic lessons of life - about love, benevolence and about rising above self-doubts. It may be because the characters of the book seemed so similar to those in my childhood fairy tales.

Aletha is the beautiful and kindhearted princess. She is anguished to see her beloved city being overrun by riots and poverty. Her twin brother, Adin, is sadly deformed and is thus, shunned by the King. Jered is the handsome and brave captain of the militia. The wise and jolly healer won my heart over from his very first introduction. Though he may be clumsy in doing chores but is an ace in his profession. He is the kind of lovable character who is more like a grandfather. The Map Across Time had a clear demarcation between the good and the evil. Though both the protagonists are still in their teens, I did not see even a hint of "teen angst" in them.

Reading this book, I had a feeling that the author had written her characters in a manner such that the good will always have good thoughts in their mind and the evil will always think evil. This seemed a bit too hard to digest as all people have their grey sides. With its unexpected twists and turns, the book kept me hooked to it till the very end. It raises questions self-doubt, greed and evil that provokes us to ponder. The book tells us how each one of them can lead us to our self-destruction if not treated by us at the earliest.

By the end everything mysterious or hidden from the reader is revealed gradually and at the right moment. Feb 16, Rachel Thomson rated it really liked it. This second book in C. Who thrown in for good measure. The kingdom of Sherbourne is under a curse. Its broken walls, crumbling since the days of the ancient battle for which they were first built, are an appropriate symbol for what is happening on the inside: Adin and Aletha, the twin children of the king, feel powerless to stop what is happening.

Adin, the heir, is marred by a hunched back, a bum leg, and a twisted face—and his father hates him. Horrified, Adin sets out to find the firebird himself and so save his adored twin from a fate probably worse than death. But an encounter with a talking pig named Winston and a mysterious, long-haired hermit set him on a very different path— Through time. The curse, as his anachronistic nurse Reya has long told him, is real. It began centuries before during the reign of the first Regent of Sherbourne.

And only Adin, armed with a painted map that will take him through time and a heart that longs to prove himself, can stop the curse from playing out to its final, destructive end.

The Map Across Time is a fairy tale through and through. It also has biblical roots, of a sort: There is no straight allegory here; if there was, I would call it problematic, for various reasons. I found this to be true in Wolf of Tebron as well. The use of Hebrew words struck me as distracting at times, taking away from the narrative rhythm. Still, the story is faster paced than Wolf, and the characters are immediately sympathetic. The climax unfolds with an almost luxurious slowness, but is incredibly satisfying—and fascinating—to watch.

Oh—and once again, the cover art is gorgeous. Jun 04, Kat Heckenbach rated it it was amazing. I enjoyed the first book in C. I'd read Grace Bridges' review and it sounded like something right up my alley--"a fairy tale for adults. I liked The Map Across Time even better, though!

The Map Across Time by C. S. Lakin (2011, Paperback)

The Gates of Heaven series isn't a real series in that the books can be read out of order. They take place in the same world, but aren't necessarily chronological. Their mother the I enjoyed the first book in C. Their mother the queen is deathly ill. Their father the king is suffering the effects of the curse that has invaded their land. Their future is doomed until Adin stumbles across a talking pig who brings him to a hermit's house.

And the hermit leads Adin to a map that will take him back in time, where Adin must find the cause of the curse and its cure. The concept is simple. The execution is not. The story is complex, and rich, and twisty is such a lovely way! Time travel is one of those concepts that makes my brain feel as if it's being pinched. I just can't wrap my mind around the paradox. Lakin, though, laid out a story that wove the crossed-over timeline perfectly. The only--and I mean only--thing that bothered me was the use of the "old language. I doubt this will bother most people, but it is a pet peeve of mine.

I will say that their use thinned out as the book went on, and it never once got even close to bugging me enough to make me stop reading. Every ounce of the rest of the book was enjoyable. And the use of the old language was actually integral to the plot! I highly recommend the book for fantasy and fairy tale fans. Mar 30, Cheryl Olson rated it it was amazing Shelves: The Map Across Time: Gates of Heaven Series is a fairy tale of the finest kind- full of adventure, intrigue and don't forget to throw in a little time travel!

Map Across time is C. Lakin's second offering in her "Gates of Heaven series". Her first being the Wolf of Tebron.

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Those who have read the first book will appreciate a lot of the background given in this book on the history of how the town of Tebron came to be, but you really can enjoy The Map Across time without having read The Wolf of Te The Map Across Time: Those who have read the first book will appreciate a lot of the background given in this book on the history of how the town of Tebron came to be, but you really can enjoy The Map Across time without having read The Wolf of Tebron. The Map across Time is a truly intricate tale about 2 twins-Aletha and Adin, prince and princess of Sherbourne with many sad predicaments in their kingdom.

A dying Queen mother, a completely distracted and greed driven King father, and a dreadful curse that is taking over the kingdom in destructive and all encompassing ways. Adin needs to take a trek across time and return to the past to try and correct mistakes made there, in order to lift the curse that is systematically destroying the Kingdom. Aletha's bond to her twin brother is strong and she finds a way to follow him into the past to help lift the curse. Along the way there are many that help them and a talking pig Winston was one of my favorites.