I am realizing that not many readers of the “Time Quintet” read book #4 of the series. I am also now realizing that my mom skipped this book when she got me the series when I was a pre-teen. I loved this series and had no clue til I got older there was a story about the fabulous twins I had a crush on, Sandy and Dennys. I didn’t understand why this book was so controversial, til of course I read it. “Many Waters” is probably the most adult book of the series. Taking in the time of Noah (yeah that Noah) you have Sandy and Dennys in the end experiencing first love, and first loss. This book honestly feels really similar in themes to me when compared to “His Dark Materials”.
“Many Waters” has teens Sandy and Dennys at home with their parents when they go to the lab and mess up an experiment going on. They are both transported back to a different time to an oasis. Long story short, the twins are separated. Sandy ends up with a man named Lamech and then Dennys gets brought to a man named Noah. And the book just follows them as they grow to love the people they are living among for a whole year. And of course they both fall for Noah’s daughter named Yalith.
There are a lot of themes with this one. Of course L’Engle focuses on Christianity (we have seraphim’s and Nephilim’s) and of course faith. You have the bad guys/and the bad women I guess who were quite okay with trying to do what they could to wreck the twins plans to help Noah. And I do think the other books in the series were heavily focused on science/souls/emotions. But this one not so much.
All readers will probably guess how this one ends, but they would be wrong I think. I thought it was an interesting way how L’Engle chose to end this.