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There is no question this book comes from the 1970s --I knew that before I looked up the publication date. The only reason I was able to continue with this book is because it was an audiobook and the only one I had handy AND my radio station was doing a pledge drive (my other radio station only works when I get close to Boston) so it was all I had while driving. It's not really safe to station search and drive, at least not for me, so that was that.

1. The narrator was annoying. At first I thought this was the main reason I didn't like it.

2. Much of the book was like listening to a social awareness lecture in the 1970s--not all social things, of course rather than showing us this more, syncretism and ESP on steroids (ESP was a bigger topic back then than it appears to be now--she calls this special kithing, which is actually a Scottish word meaning to make known, but this was a super deep type of ESP that transcended time and allowed Meg to see and know everyhting her brother was seeing and doing, plus hear) while one of the siblings time travelled with a unicorn that was actually living in another dimension even though it was giving the boy a ride--this is a children's book, after all, so that doesn't have to make sense)

3. The whole kithing thing would have been fun to read when I was a kid because, after all, in the 1970s I thought the idea of ESP was cool. I also liked fantasy fiction and magic.

4. Why on earth do people shelve this as science fiction? IMO, this is fantasy, pure and simple, I don't care about this meshing of time and space because the unicorn and many other things that happened are NOT science fiction by any stretch of the definition. Okay, this is not the author's fault and in now way caused me to rate this 1 star, I am just complaining--sometimes migraines get mey whining/whinging.)

5. I am going to stop now, but there were other things I greatly disliked about it.

So WHY did I get this out? Because at the time I put a hold on this, I could only get audiobooks from my local library and it doesn't have many scifi audiobooks--I've already listened to all of their good ones.