It started with a fishing trip and a ripple in the air….
Prenna was one of the lucky ones. She was able to escape the blood plague, but
not without its consequences on her family.
But now, she lives comfortably, still amazed at how much life has changed. Although she still has a habit of swatting
mosquitoes that spread the virus, it hasn’t happened yet. She now lives in the time before the
destruction of the planet that occurs in the 2070s.
Although Prenna should be content with life in a virus-free
world, she still holds the flame of challenge against the community, wanting
questions answered she knows won’t happen.
There are rules the committee enforces on the members ( never reveal to
anyone who you are or where you come from; never be intimate with anyone
outside of their community to name a few) and seeing Mr. Roberts for sessions
when she goes too close to the line of disobedience. She also knows stories of people who have
defied the community’s rules – and have now disappeared. Soon, Prenna begins experiencing flashbacks
and sees objects and places that are familiar to her from her previous life time,
which makes her even more curious. There
weren’t supposed to be any….
Ethan remembers the girl at the river. He saw the ripple in the air around her and
knew she was different. Now, a few years
later, they’ve gone from strangers to friends with Ethan remembering every
little event and Prenna not remembering any of it. He decides it’s best to leave well enough
alone as he tries hard to not cross the line between friendship and
relationship. Although he’s known her
for awhile, she still has a mysteriousness to her he can’t quite figure out. But
Ethan holds other secrets from Prenna, which will change their relationship and
who they are.
Then the elusive homeless man appears in their lives,
telling Prenna things about the her past and future she can’t ignore as mere
coincidence. All it takes is one
providential meeting and both she and Ethan are propelled into a new reality of
trying to save the world instead of just living in it. But it also means sacrifice in so many ways,
and those are the things that will hurt both of them the most.
Ann Brashares writes a riveting novel about time travel that
will pull readers along with the characters and plot. The separate timelines of the main character are
written seamlessly, making the situation more believable and the future bleaker
with every page turned. Although the
beginning took off a little slow for myself, the interactions between
characters as well as the unraveling of the plot steadily developed into a
novel I had to know the end to. And Brashares
doesn’t disappoint. If you have fans of
science fiction and time travel, recommend this to them.
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