Tempest
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Average rating3.7
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Ratings3
Average rating3.7
The Time Traveller's Wife meets The Matrix - an action-packed, roller-coaster of a ride, filled with drama, intrigue and romance in equal proportions. Tempest is a mind-blowing debut novel that will keep you guessing at every turn. Jackson Meyer is hiding a secret. He can time-travel. But he doesn't know how he does it, how to control it or what it means. When Jackson, and his girlfriend Holly, find themselves in fatal danger, Jackson panics and catapaults himself two years into his past, further than he's ever managed before, and this time he can't find a way back to the future. All the rules of time-travel he's experienced so far have been broken and Jackson has no choice but to pretend to be his younger self whilst he figures out a solution. Jackson is tearing himself apart with guilt and frustration, wondering if Holly survived. He's also become the target of a enemy force he cannot even begin to comprehend and it seems even his dad is lying to him. Jackson is racing against time to save the girl he loves, discover the truth about his family and, most importantly, understand why he can time travel and who wants him dead.
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I thought this was a pretty good book as far as YA books go, especially since I'm such a sucker for time travel. I like how they took a new twist on the age-old rules. For instance, if Jackson goes back into the past, he doesn't change anything in the future. The book does get a little complicated a bit later and has a bit more complexity than just time-travel, but I think it introduces it well. I was definitely captivated and easily finished this book, unlike other YA books cough City of Bones cough which I'm finding a chore to make it through.
The one thing I was a little unsold on was the character of Holly. I just wasn't that convinced that Jackson and Holly were so in love. While I like how they go to the action right away, I really didn't feel that Holly was so special and worth saving. I was much more fascinated with the concept of Jackson's dead twin sister, which I was hoping they would do more with in the novel. Oh well, I guess that's #2, right?
