(I received a free copy of this book in exchange for a review).
(This review may contain spoilers).
First of all, I’d like to say that I absolutely loved the front cover. When I saw it for the first time, I was immediately drawn in… and the blurb of the book just made me want to read it even more.
I did really like Ash as a character. I was pulled into the book fairly quickly and she was a character I could really relate to. I was also drawn into the future timeline really easily. The group of people that Ash meets and interacts with were really interesting and it was also quite cool to see them in the different future timelines.
I liked Coop as well, but I was less than thrilled with Tate’s sudden interest in Ash, since there was no hint of that until much later in the book. Unless it was something caused by Ash… but it didn’t come across as that.
The linking in to the legends is quite intriguing, but I was still left with a lot of questions by the end of the book. I would have liked some more of the answers to my questions, since there were a couple of things that didn’t make a lot of sense.
I did like how the future-people differed slightly in each subsequent timeline. I did figure out one of the things fairly quickly, but it was nice to see that guess confirmed. There was one character who didn’t seem to have any redeeming qualities, though.
I found Skylar an interesting character and it would have been nice to see more of her, especially since she seemed to be quite a contradiction. When it came to the school scenes, however, I didn’t get much of a sense of there being a lot of students. A lot of the characters were well-defined… but outside of the main characters, the students were just grouped together as exactly that.
It would have been nice to see some of the present-day versions of the future characters, especially Coop… though I imagine that would have been quite strange to see.
This is apparently the first book in a series and although it has a resolution, there are still many questions I’d like to have answered and things I’d like to see more of. I would definitely read a sequel to this book.
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