Originally posted at LiveJournal on August 27, 2011 During my last visit to HalfPrice Books, I was wandering through the SF/Fantasy section when I saw this: Honestly, though I'm a huge fantasy reader, I've never been interested in any of the books I've seen in the genre SF/F section. But the front cover image and the back cover summary set off my Ocean Girl radar, and, after all, it was only about $3. The nutshell: A pair of Time Agents is studying a mostly-ocean planet which was once home to a feudal civilization, but now seems devoid of any intelligent life. Intending only to view the past through a time portal, the agents - along with a young Polynesian woman and her two dolphins, with whom she has a telepathic bond - are accidentally sucked through and caught in the middle of a potentially cataclysmic war. It was a fun read overall, though it took a bit of suspension-of-disbelief for certain concepts or plot points. The good points: I loved the d