In this book Sam leaps into Noah Ellmanin the year 1978. His mother in this leap is Gerda Ellman, a delightful woman who has ambitions of becoming a dancing success story in her autumn. Her dance partner is a young man by the name of Marty that Sam has to track down, because in the original history Marty didn't turn up for a televised talent contest that Gerda and Marty had entered. Gerda was shattered by his none-appearance and died a two years later. Ziggy figured this was because Marty's non-appearance left Gerda heart broken. Sam had started to work for Rebecca Wexler, doing her accounts and paper work for her. Sam realised that Rebecca was a troubled young woman and did not know why. Although this was not part of Sam's leap mission, he wanted to try and discover her problem and see if he can help her. Al was dissatisfied with this because it interfered with Sam's original task.

Novel Title:   Author: ISBN No: Quantum Leap: Song and Dance Mindy Peterman 0-425-16577-9

To make matters worst, Gooshie was seriously stressed about something back at Project Quantum Leap and would not open up to Al as to what was wrong. As a result of this, Gooshie couldn't the pressure and left Project Quantum Leap for a limited period of time. Although Gooshie was owed a holiday, it still worried Al because Gooshie was never interested holiday. He liked to spend his time with Ziggy.

Because of this bond that Gooshie and Ziggy had, Ziggy went on strike back at Project Quantum Leap and would not assist Al in helping Sam. Ziggy wouldn't come off strike until Gooshie returns. This give Al an extra headache, as he now had to track down Gooshie to discover what was wrong and to get him to tell Ziggy to come off the strike.

Although this book had a great deal of potential, I did not feel it lived up to it. In areas where you wanted to the story to move quickly, it read at a snail's pace. It areas in which you wanted to pace itself, it hurried itself too much.

A lot of the great twists in this book, such as what was wrong with Rebecca and what Marty's identity is, did not come to any great surprise. I was able to tell from the start what the twists were. I am not good at detective novels, so by no greats means am I good at solving things like this. It could have been more concealed with the "tiny" clues.

In saying that, I did enjoy the book. Once the identity of Marty was discovered and what Rebecca's problem, the book became a lot more interesting. Come to this point and I did find it hard to put the book down. In conclusion I would say it is a good read for real Quantum Leap fans, but for someone else who was looking for any book to read, it might not come to much interest to them.

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