Second Anniversary Celebration-Julie Cross Prize Package
Today’s second SECOND ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION prize package giveaway is generously donated by the amazing Julie Cross. Julie is offering paper copies of the first three books in her Tempest series (Tempest, Vortex, Timestorm) and a copy of Letters to Nowhere (Letters to Nowhere #1).
There will be one (1) winner.
Description: The battle between the Tempest division and Eyewall comes to a shocking conclusion in this final installment of the Tempest trilogy, where the need for survival stretches the boundaries of history, both past and future, and the world Jackson once knew is a place forever marked by the detrimental effects of time travel.
As Jackson recovers from his brush with death, he’s surrounded not only by the people he loves most—his dad, Courtney, and Holly—he’s also amongst a few of the original time travelers. As he learns more about their life and how this world began, it becomes apparent that they need to put a stop to Thomas and Doctor Ludwig’s experimenting at Eyewall Headquarters. What starts out as an escape plan becomes a war between time and humanity, between freewill and peace. It’s the battle Jackson was born to fight and he’s not about to back down. Not for anything. Not for anyone.
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Timestorm by Julie Cross is the 3rd and final book in her Tempest series. Timestorm is an exciting and mind boggling climatic finish to this time-travel series. Jackson wakes up as he is recovering from his brush with death and finds himself surrounded by many people who we have met throughout this series. They are all trapped in the future within an area run by the enemy, Eyewall, where there is no escape. Many of our main characters besides Jackson, play important parts in this finale, such as, Holly, Emily, Courtney, Jackson’s Dad, Jenni, Mason, Marshall, Thomas, Adam and Blake.
In first half of the book, Blake was an important character, as we learn a lot about the original time travelers, and how both Tempest and Eyewall were created, as well as how dangerous Eyewall truly is. This is a difficult review to do, as you need to understand about the time travel history in this world building that Julie has created, to totally understand this book. It is an amazing and different storyline, and as I said earlier, mind-boggling. All the pieces do fall into place, with all the characters at one point or another, having had contact with Jackson during the time jumps. Timestorm is an elaborate story, with the needed history to help tie the pieces, and if you read too fast or skip anything, you will lose so much.
I came away from this series in awe of what a fantastic job Julie Cross did to write this complicated theme, and at the same time create a nice romance. You can tell how much research Julie had to have done, and the planning in creating this for the story to flow so well. Even for those who have read the entire series, it can be confusing at times. But it is a well thought, brilliant, and different time travel story, which was an amazing feat for Julie Cross.
Reviewed by Barb
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