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Tempest for me has a really intriguing story line, and the concept behind time travel fascinates me as it does many other fans, hence the popular BBC series, Dr. Who. I'm not sure if I for one would want to travel back in time, because I fear I'd do something stupid that would alter things that change my future, not saying I don't have a few things I wish I could change. For Jackson, the story's main character, that's precisely what he wants to do. I couldn't fault him for wanting to save the love of his life, but things seem to go wrong when he gets stuck in his past and can't get back to the date he left.

I liked that the story starts off with Jackson and his girlfriend Holly, both of whom are college students in 2009. Jackson, along with his best friend Adam are testing/researching his abilities to time travel, when through the course of one of his jumps something happens which sets off a whole chain reaction of events. As I said above, I liked the whole premise of time traveling, but I had a very hard time keeping up with all of Jackson's jumps and his motives for going back to the various dates he goes to. This made it really hard for me to connect to both the story and the characters. I needed more of a clarity of Jackson's rules for his jumps, the consequences of those jumps, and I wanted to have an over all better understanding of his ability to time travel. I got lost as a reader with the numerous and what felt like random jumps he makes, or maybe it's the fact that many of his jumps are short bursts and it felt like he bounces back and forth between a few years too often that I didn't keep up with his reasoning for them.

Don't get me wrong, I can definitely see why other readers really enjoyed it. There's an intriguing storyline with secrets, romance, danger, action, cover ups, love, loss and of course the CIA and it's secret group. I liked that through some of Jackson's jumps Julie introduces readers to Jackson's sister, what happened to her, how that shaped the person Jackson is now, his love for Holly, who is Dad is and what division of the CIA he works for and of course the "bad guys" who are after Jackson. Like many first books in a series Tempest seems like it sets up a lot more of what's to come with the rest of the series. Though I felt a bit lost at times with the book in trying to keep up with all that was going on and didn't love the story as much as I had expected to, I am looking forward reading the sequel. I think this is just the beginning of what sounds like an fabulous series. There's been others times where I didn't love the first in a series and loved the sequel, and I'm hoping that's the case with Tempest. There is some mild language, a few mentions of the f word and a non-graphic sex scene in the book.


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Tempest A Novel The Tempest Trilogy Julie Cross Books Reviews

This new YA time travel novel has a bit of buzz (I see it on many of the book blogs I troll looking for candidates to review The Darkening Dream), but I read it -- and quickly -- because of the superficial similarities to my second novel, Untimed. Both are YA time travel, both have a mail protagonist (although he's a 19 year old in this book, and 15 in mine).

But that's about where the similarity ends. Although don't get me wrong, Tempest is a great book. It's one of the best YA's I've read in the last year or so, on par with Before I Fall. The beginning is slightly awkward although the 1st person past voice is good. The author's "I'm a time traveling teen intro" felt slightly forced, but as soon as he's attacked by mysterious secret agent dudes and forced back from 2009 to 2007 (maybe 10% in) the book rocks along and I read the whole thing in a single sitting. Overall it nicely balances an interesting new scenario, likable characters, a compelling romance, a good mystery, and a touch of pathos. Good stuff.

Tempest borrows lightly from the brilliant The Time Traveler's Wife too, and while it has a novel take on time travel it's really more of an action mystery, and most importantly a romance. Untimed on the other hand, which is even heavier on the action, and has a romance (less emphasized), really focuses on the history part of time travel. I visit four centuries, all heavily researched, and explore the big impact individual people can have on the broad sweep of history. Tempest sticks mostly to the personal. The things that change in this novel are all of an intimate nature, having to do with the protagonist and his family. Namely the author is a woman and its all about the relationships Jackson and his girlfriend, his father, his best friend, and his sister. Not that this is bad, as these relationships are really well done, its just different. The time travel action is confined mostly to a couple years back and is rarely intricate, avoiding most overlap and paradox. All the material stuff occurs between 2007 and 2009 with only a few touristic visits to the decade prior. It's mostly all in New York city.

This leaves a lot of time to focus on the Jackson / Holly romance. We see it in three modes as it existed before the novel opens, as he recreates it two years earlier from scratch in alternate 2007, and as he upgrades it on his return. As I said, this is a nicely done romance and really the core of the novel. Both characters felt natural to me, their passion genuine, young, and hopeful. Two major elements interjected a top fight bittersweet note the problematic nature of a time traveler / normal romance and Jackson's relationship with his dead twin sister (which because of time travel, lingers on, just a bit).

The mystery element was also good. The book succeeds in NOT revealing exactly what is really going on with the time travelers and even which of two (or even possibly three) factions is actually in the right. This is something I also tried to do in Untimed, and works pretty well here, even if the whole "secret agent" thing and nomenclature of "Enemies of Time" is a bit cheesy. Essentially Cross pulls it off. But the villains are nowhere near as cool as my Tick-Tocks

And I totally wanted to keep reading. But because of the pacing of the traditional publishing system we have to wait a year for the sequel!

Andy Gavin, author of The Darkening Dream
Tempest for me has a really intriguing story line, and the concept behind time travel fascinates me as it does many other fans, hence the popular BBC series, Dr. Who. I'm not sure if I for one would want to travel back in time, because I fear I'd do something stupid that would alter things that change my future, not saying I don't have a few things I wish I could change. For Jackson, the story's main character, that's precisely what he wants to do. I couldn't fault him for wanting to save the love of his life, but things seem to go wrong when he gets stuck in his past and can't get back to the date he left.

I liked that the story starts off with Jackson and his girlfriend Holly, both of whom are college students in 2009. Jackson, along with his best friend Adam are testing/researching his abilities to time travel, when through the course of one of his jumps something happens which sets off a whole chain reaction of events. As I said above, I liked the whole premise of time traveling, but I had a very hard time keeping up with all of Jackson's jumps and his motives for going back to the various dates he goes to. This made it really hard for me to connect to both the story and the characters. I needed more of a clarity of Jackson's rules for his jumps, the consequences of those jumps, and I wanted to have an over all better understanding of his ability to time travel. I got lost as a reader with the numerous and what felt like random jumps he makes, or maybe it's the fact that many of his jumps are short bursts and it felt like he bounces back and forth between a few years too often that I didn't keep up with his reasoning for them.

Don't get me wrong, I can definitely see why other readers really enjoyed it. There's an intriguing storyline with secrets, romance, danger, action, cover ups, love, loss and of course the CIA and it's secret group. I liked that through some of Jackson's jumps Julie introduces readers to Jackson's sister, what happened to her, how that shaped the person Jackson is now, his love for Holly, who is Dad is and what division of the CIA he works for and of course the "bad guys" who are after Jackson. Like many first books in a series Tempest seems like it sets up a lot more of what's to come with the rest of the series. Though I felt a bit lost at times with the book in trying to keep up with all that was going on and didn't love the story as much as I had expected to, I am looking forward reading the sequel. I think this is just the beginning of what sounds like an fabulous series. There's been others times where I didn't love the first in a series and loved the sequel, and I'm hoping that's the case with Tempest. There is some mild language, a few mentions of the f word and a non-graphic sex scene in the book.