Tempest

Goodreads Synopsis:
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.

My Review:
Tempest by Julie Cross

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I really liked this book! I liked the unique way that it approached time travel. It was a love story but I think it was a bit more complex than that. It wasn't just a typical story about boy meeting girl and needing to protect from the time traveling bad guys. The most powerful parts of the story were when he was talking about his sister. Courtney was his twin and meant so much to him. Being able to describe that pain would be very difficult. Having lost a sibling, I found the imagery quite fitting. I really believed Jackson's love for Courtney. I felt his need to tell her all the things he never got to say before her untimely death. His need to be with her when she passed. It was a very sensitive subject that was approached beautifully. That aside, there were a few things that I didn't like. I didn't like how Jackson's father was portrayed. He seemed all business one moment and then was an emotional basket-case the next. I really loved the jump to when his father was happy and in love. I thought that it made Jackson's dad more human...as human as you can get for a CIA super-spy hired to protect an infant time traveler. I thought there was a lot of time wasted on Jackson's insistence on joining the "family business". I'm assuming that plot will develop more in the following books but it was made into a big deal just to be irrelevant by the end of the book. I thought Thomas's character was very mysterious. I can't wait to read more about him as the series progresses.

I really enjoyed the writing and the story. It was very well thought out and the story moved along at a nice pace. The characters were well developed for the most part and the concepts were explained very well to continue the series. The reader was left with a need to see if Jackson can find a way to be with Holly. It left me needing to know what happens next. Good work Julie Cross!



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