Tempest
by Julie Cross
Time
travel, romance, action: if you like these Tempest will be right up your
street.
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| Tempest by Julie Cross |
Nineteen
year old Jackson can time travel, but he can’t tell anyone, not even his
girlfriend, Holly. When Jackson gets stuck in the year 2007 he can’t manage to
get back to his home base, 2009. While trying to get to 2009 he finds he can
only go backwards, not forwards which leads him to his sister, Courtney.
Courtney died at the age of 14; she was Jackson’s twin sister. They were both
without a mother because she died in childbirth. The novel is about whether Jackson
can jump back into 2009 and whether he’ll choose to join the Tempest (part of the
CIA) or the EOTs (time travellers who want to run the world but their time
travelling will rip apart the universe).
This
was the first time travel book I have ever read. Reading this made me think
about the book called The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I
haven’t read it but I wondered if the time travel thing was the same. I still
don’t know. :(
This
book will definitely be up in my top books. I found I liked it as much as
Insignia (by SJ Kincaid) and Divergent (by Veronica Roth), which are very high on my list (at the top). I am
definitely going to recommend this book to people and I can’t wait for the next
book Vortex which is coming soon. I am sad to say that Tempest has beaten most of the
horse books I have ever read (I think some of the horse books get boring or are
a bit young).
I
definitely will say people who like action, romance and time travel should love
it. I think 13+ for this book partly because of language and parts of the
romance but other than that it’s a great book.
After
reading this I thought more about how most of the books I read now are science
fiction.
Publication
details: 2012, Macmillan, London, paperback
This
copy: received from the publishers for review
I haven't read very many time-travel YA, but this sounds great.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question about The Time Traveller's Wife - although I haven't read this, they don't seem to be along the same lines. Henry is TTTW jumps randomly back and forward through time unexpectedly and he can't change or control it.
Thank you for that. The Time Traveller's Wife sounds good. M told me abut about it the other day. :)
DeleteYep, Sophie's right, Tempest sounds quite different to TTTW. It's not an actiony type story at all. It is wonderful in lots of other ways though. Actually, TTTW may have been the first time travelly type book that I read.
ReplyDeleteI read Tempest back in January and really enjoyed it. Vortex, the second book, is currently sat on my shelf waiting to be read so I'll have to pick it up very soon.
ReplyDeleteI've read parts of The Time Traveler's Wife and think it is quite different, particularly the way in which they both time travel. Lovely review! :)
Little M's just read Vortex. Her review will be up soon. She enjoyed it.
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