A Loop in Time: Book One of the Polis Series

Rowena Wright
Finial Publishing (2006)
ISBN 193379108X
Reviewed by Ian McCurley (age 13) for Reader Views (3/07)

The story takes place in post 9/11 New York during the Tunnel Wars.  Tunnel Wars is the fictional war caused by the bombing of the World Trade Center.  Sophia Ludwig lived alone in New York.  Though she appeared human on the outside, she was actually a Ringgold, which were like humans but with magical powers.  Sophia had just lost her husband, Branch Archer, when she learned that she had become pregnant.  Ten years later, Sophia and her daughter Ericca visit a memorial to her father in Central Park.  Ericca comes home to find her two friends Elle and Matt and her magical baby blanket.  The baby blanket can fly, and the heads of long-deceased scientists pop out of it at intervals.  Matt has brought along a new invention of his father’s called the Q-Computer which has the ability to project life-like holographic images onto anything.  While at a field trip to a museum, Matt sees Tory Skye, the daughter of Diamond Skye, another Ringgold who had risen from a mere immigrant to one of New York’s biggest businessmen.   He watched her as she stole the priceless amulet, the Eye of Horus.  Ericca, Elle and Matt must steal the amulet back and all the while search for the truth behind Branch Archer’s death.  Can Ericca turn back time before it is too late? 

The author, Rowena Wright, gets her point across in an understandable yet confusing manner.  “A Loop in Time” is an abstract work of fiction that is set after a very real tragedy.  What it lacks in background and explanation, it makes up for in creativity and imagination. 

“A Loop in Time” is for kids between the ages of 10 and 16 who enjoy chess, science fiction and flying.  If you don’t understand why I put these three things together, which you shouldn’t, this book is for you. 

In conclusion, “A Loop in Time” is an imaginative, creative and well-written story about a girl in post 9/11 New York.  Based on the Egyptian myth of Osiris, “A Loop in Time” will captivate you.  I personally look forward to some of Rowena Wright’s other works.

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