uhhh....well I can certainly feel the grudge the author had when she wanted some more life but was trapped in the little town family shopowner life. It was really a bit too child-ish for the people in story though, they are grownups now and they still live very fairy-tale-like ... or maybe just fairy tale is real as long as you can believe it, I suppose.

Plot is going back in time and changing history to change the person from who he is in this reality, so that this person will not do what he's doing and thus the nuclear war catastrophe will be prevented. well okay, but I personally don't like heavy poem verses and charms and spells in time travelling sci-fi so I don't like it as much as I did the previous books. And possibly because I don't like the changing history by changing one person's ... ancestry. it's the upbringing... the upbringing.... not whose child it is...