A "you should read this because you read X" recommendation. This book was ok, not a terribly captivating story, but well written with a few interesting concepts. I always love a good time travel conundrum. This one had circular logic, which is always fun. You have to go back in time to leave the map for the person to get out so that they can find you and give you the map to give back to them kinda thing. The MC didn't deviate because the finder ended up being her grandmother and wasn't about to mess with possibly not being, but I really want someone to not give away the map and see what happens. That's the kind of chaotic evil I want to see in a time travel book.
This book merges real and fantasy in an odd way, vaguely like Harry Potter where the fantasy is just so absurd and random. I wasn't too big of a fan there because it was jarring, but at least the author made a good excuse for it. (The map doesn't have to be a real place to travel to it.) I did, however, really enjoy the trip to Hawaii before the original local government was destroyed. I don't know much about history of that region, so it did pique my interest in reading some history on the Hawaiian islands.
