YMMV / Island in the Sea of Time (Series)

• Harsher in Hindsight: When the characters discuss what might have happened to the world "uptime," anyone who has read the Emberverse novels knows just how wrong they are—the forces behind the Event also led to the Change, a re-writing of the laws of physics that led to the death of untold millions.
• Memetic Mutation: The term "ISOT" for the Mass Teleportation of an entire population across time after the title of the first book has become ubiquitous amongst Alternate History circles.
• Narm: Marian Alston's inconsistent accent. It comes and goes throughout the books, and when it's there, all it does is distract from whatever she's saying. Particularly painful is the scene in the first book where she deliberately employs a thick accent in an attempt to scare the Lisketters. Rather than making her sound like a Scary Black Woman, it makes her sound like Pogo.

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