Tempest by Julie Cross



The year is 2009.  Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler.  Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.

Released: Out now!

Holy god, what a book. This book makes the take a rollercoaster on their emotions. I mean how can a book do that? Julie Cross is debuting into the world of wonderful YA with Tempest a time-travelling book that I can actually get my head around. What is interesting is the fact it is written from a guys point of view by a female author, and i think she has pulled it off very well. *insert bowing to the writer*

Jackson Meyer has the recessive Tempest gene, which allows the holder to travel through time, with and without consequences along with a better memory capacity e.g. Photographic memory etc. In 2009 an event takes place which rocks his work literally. He is thrust back into 2007 and cannot get back. During this time he learns many home truths about his Dad and who's after him, oh and did i mention he has to get back to 2009 to save Holly?

So, this book is super enjoyable once, and only once the story picks up, it is really nice to know the background of Jackson and Holly and this and that, you know? But me? I'm a fast paced story lover, a book that keeps churning out suprise after suprise. It is really only the last third that the story pace picked up and the reader was swept away. It made me enjoy the story alot more and i finally understood why the author added so much background, we were going to need itto get our head around the story.

Cross then changed everything we already knew at the last minute and left us, the reader looking at that last blank page going, crap, i have to wait an eternity for the next one!

Thanks to Mykindabook on twitter for holding a competition to win a pretty hardback version!

Talia x