Review: Truly Fascinating
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
When I picked up this book I didn’t pay close attention to the description. This is good though, because upon reading it I might have passed the book over because its main characters are middle school children. I am so happy I got the chance to jump into a story like this!This book follows Kenny and Savannah in their adventures as regular middle school aged children who are without warning abducted from class and taken into the future—the 73rd century to be exact. Upon arrival, Kenny and Savannah find that they have been hand selected out of all the people in the universe throughout all time to complete a special mission to stop the “end of the world.”Winters does an excellent job with world building and constructing this futuristic place filled with details to let the reader know that they have truly been transported to another place in time. The citizens of the future do not eat food, so as they prepare for Kenny and Savannah’s arrival, plants have to be especially grown to accommodate them.There has been a partnership between humans and alien life, such that aliens have provided humans with valuable tools to help them lead their lives. Things like special methods of transportation that use artificial gravity to transport them from place to place super fast, are described in great detail.All in all I really enjoyed the story. I only wish it had lasted a little longer! I give four stars because the story kind of dropped off at the end-- effectively forcing you to buy the sequel.