I’m probably one of the few people who didn’t read the traveling pants books, so at first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to read this one. I’m glad I did. All time travel books suffer from the unavoidable confusion that comes from time travel, and this is no exception so it may not be for everyone but I really liked it.

Prenna is an average girl, except she’s not. She’s a time traveler from a future where things are really not going well. In her time a huge portion of the population has fallen victim to a blood plague. Now, this may make the book sound dystopian, but that future is only referenced, never seen. The bulk of this book is about Prenna figuring out her place in our time and how cute boy Ethan fits into her world.

This book managed to blend Prenna and Ethan’s budding romance perfectly with the adventure going on. A lot of the time romance overwhelms a book like this but I never felt that here. The adventure and mystery they are involved in is revealed with perfect timing so that just when you’re starting to figure something out it is revealed to the characters and you experience the ‘ah ha!’ moment together.

For most of the book they don’t dive too deep into time travel and the consequences of it, aside from the rules Prenna and the other travelers are forced to remember and abide by. However, in the last few chapters the consequences of time travel (multiple time lines, different immunities, different germs) come hard and fast and you really have to pay attention in order to understand it all.

Overall a book that was exciting and hard to put down and pulled me through the gambit of emotions. Would recommend to anyone with an interest in time travel and light romance.

Ahhh, I love when I finally read a book that I’ve been putting off and it turns out to be awesome. I don’t know why, but I was kind of scared of this book. I was sure it would end up to be super lame. Nope, it was super awesome.

Albin builds a great dystopian world that feels kind of like home, but isn’t. Right away you know things are bad and they’re just going to get worse. The MC is taken off to become a spinster, which sounds lame but is actually the women who keep this world twirling, but turns out there is a lot of corruption in this world. I was surprised, were you surprised?

It had moments of The Selection, moments of The Hunger Games, and moments of most other books in that vein, but it brought it all together in a new fun way that wasn’t too heavy on the love triangle. I’ll give an automatic five star review to the next dystopian book I read WITHOUT the mandatory love triangle.

Really looking forward to seeing where the next one goes!

Wow, this book was so much more than I expected. I snatched it up from a free to review list because it was the best sounding of the lot, but honestly I wasn’t completely excited. But then?

I read it in three days.

I took a short day at work so I could come home and finish it before my plans that night. Yup, that happened.

As another reviewer said, this is written very simply. There is no flowing prose, no ‘snow falling like gentle kisses’ or anything like that. There is some telling instead of showing and you know what? That’s all fine with me because I felt more for these characters than I felt during my recent read of Boy meets Boy by a much bigger author.

This story felt very real. The simple style made it feel more real because it was like a few dudes telling you their story. They aren’t trying to come out in a perfect world and they are met by people who accept it, people who hate it, and people who need some time to come around to the idea. A very real portrayal of coming out, at least in my experience.

Simply written as the descriptions may be, the characters themselves are wonderful. I quickly was drawn into Adam’s struggles, I championed his champion, Angel, and even the characters with smaller parts came through as completely three dimensional.

Overall an easy read that will make your heart soar for young love and all the trials that come along with it.