SYNOPSIS:
At a school where Quantum Paradox 101 is a required course and history field trips are literal, sixteen year-old time traveler Bree Bennis excels…at screwing up.
After Bree botches a solo midterm to the 21st century by accidentally taking a boy hostage (a teensy snafu), she stands to lose her scholarship. But when Bree sneaks back to talk the kid into keeping his yap shut, she doesn’t go back far enough. The boy, Finn, now three years older and hot as a solar flare, is convinced he’s in love with Bree, or rather, a future version of her that doesn’t think he’s a complete pain in the arse. To make matters worse, she inadvertently transports him back to the 23rd century with her.
Once home, Bree discovers that a recent rash of accidents at her school are anything but accidental. Someone is attacking time travelers. As Bree and her temporal tagalong uncover seemingly unconnected clues—a broken bracelet, a missing data file, the art heist of the millennium—that lead to the person responsible, she alone has the knowledge to piece the puzzle together. Knowledge only one other person has. Her future self.
But when those closest to her become the next victims, Bree realizes the attacker is willing to do anything to stop her. In the past, present, or future.
WHY SHOULD YOU CHECK IT OUT?
Are you a sucker for anything time-travel related? Then you, like us, have this one marked down already. But just in case you weren’t convinced enough, let’s review: time-traveling teenagers, conspiracies, future-selves, temporally challenged romance, and a threat to the very fabric of time itself. You at the bookstore yet?
The cover here is full-on romance, as Bree and Finn kiss with a swirling tunnel of fiery pastel magic behind them. It doesn’t scream science fiction, but hopefully the sparkles will read as stars in conjunction with the title.
This is YA author Karen Akins’ debut novel. Karen has been many things in her life: an archery instructor, drummer for the shortest-lived garage band in history, and a shockingly bad tic-tac-toe player. She lives in the MidSouth where she loves lightsaber dueling with her two sons and forcing her husband to watch BBC shows with her. Find Karen online at www.KarenAkins.com!
EARLY REVIEWS SAY…
Initially disorienting and then seemingly impossibly tangled, the complicated plot will leave readers dying to know if debut author Akins can pull all of her pieces into a cohesive whole—and she does so with aplomb. Future and past selves provide a creative take on romance in a high-stakes, high-concept mystery that trusts its readers’ intelligence. (Kirkus Reviews)
Bree’s and Finn’s relationship is enjoyably tense yet playful, their undeniable attraction to each other bridging the centuries they each call home. Akins opts for a light, humorous take on the time-travel novel… but readers will still need to pay close attention, since the explanations about the mechanics of time travel can be tricky to follow. (Publishers Weekly)
NECESSARY DETAILS
YA Science Fiction
Hardcover & ebook, 336 pages
Published on October 21st 2014 by St. Martin’s Griffin (ISBN 1250030986)
http://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250030986
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