Review: It's actually more like 3 and a half but they won't let me do that
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
First off, loved the first book.  It was definitely a different aspect of time traveling.  I liked that it allowed for the mishaps of bringing people forward or back with you.  The mystery of it once you start reading kind of goes away though.  I mean I don't know how many other people caught on (and maybe few caught on as fast as I did), but once she was taken to the 60s I pretty much figured how it was going to end, what all the little plot twists were going to be, ect.  That's kind of to be expected of me however because I tend to figure out puzzles fairly quickly.  Anyway, the sequel was... interesting.  I wish it didn't end as abruptly as it did though.  There is still more that needed to be tidied up for that book.  Unless the author is planning on a third, it's really just best to not leave certain characters just dangling in mid-air.  Especially characters your readers are fond of.  You can't bring someone forward with you, find out things about their "past/future" and then just leave it at that.  Sorry but no.  The companion books - I really didn't care for them much.I bought the pack because obviously it was cheaper to get it than to get them all individually, but they're spinoffs that in all honesty didn't really bring me in.  Clocked most definitely sucked.  We'd already read that story.  Sure it was from the guy's perspective, but really it wasn't necessary.  We followed along just fine in the first book thanks.  Tip for future authors - if you're going to do something from another character's perspective, please don't rewrite the same thing over.  Your readers can pretty much figure out their train of thought from the original if you do it right (which the first book did quite well).  Yes it was another character's thoughts, but it felt exactly the same.  If you want to do that, give us more details.  Like was there something we missed the first time around?  In this case, no.  There wasn't.Like Clockwork was another that could have really used... more.  Pretty much all I could read into that was a whiny teenager who wanted a perfect world and wasn't getting it.  It really just annoyed me to no end.  I could have done without that to be honest.  It just didn't flow the way the original did in any sense of the word.  It just was...unnecessary.  Maybe I'm just too old for that kind of YA book.  Who knows.  It was just too much "me me me" for me to get interested in it.  I, of course, did read it all.  I just wasn't as interested in that character as I was the original.  I liked her better.  Anyway, that's my two cents on that one.