I also loved the sheer strength of the emotions that both main characters felt for the secondary characters – which was REALLY well done – and the little tie-ups in the present and the past (meeting younger selves of their loved ones in the past) which really intrigued me.

I loved how each place Nicholas and Etta travelled to was so GORGEOUSLY described, that it really felt like I was living there! BEAUTIFUL. It was the impossibility of not having each other and I get that, it’s just that I would have loved more chemistry filled conversations rather than pining. I understand that Nicholas and Etta were destined to be together, but I just wasn’t feeling anything except the pull of what the other couldn’t have. What does a passage look like? What does it feel like, and not the aftermath? It was lacking and yet complex. The music relation seemed very convenient, and there was nothing new about it.

While the concept of travelling itself was pretty complicated, there were no special aspects of this book that were time travel related that stuck with me. It had been a long long time since I picked up a memorable time travelling book, but this one seemed rather odd. Until Etta.ĭrawn together like magnets, forced into work by the ruthless Ironwood family, Nicholas and Etta take a journey through time, piecing together clues, looking for an object that can change time and the world as we know it. Racially discriminated against, and after somehow making it out of slavery, all he wants is to one day be the captain of his ow boat. Nicholas Carter couldn’t take his eyes off the pale-haired girl from the minute he saw her on the deck of his boat. Alexandra Bracken is a 1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author, best known for writing The Darkest Minds Series and Passenger Series.

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