She trusted her grandmother way too easily and she trusted Connor way too easily, too. With the sheer number of people she shared her time-traveling gene secret with, I couldn't imagine how she wasn't dead halfway through the book. Now, since I gave this just three stars, there has to be something I don't really like about it, right? Yes, but it's really a small collection of little things that just tickle the back of my brain and that kind of built up.įor starters, while Kate wasn't a helpless heroine, girlfriend was way too trusting. Unfortunately I don't feel any real chemistry between Kate and either of the boys, but maybe that will change a bit in the next book, since there was a lot going on here. Now, there are several timeline shifts to deal with but somehow Kate ends up between two boys-Kiernan, who may or may not be a 'bad guy' in the company of someone who stole something from her on the train, and Trey, whom she would have never met in her regular (or what's stated to be her regular) timeline but that she finds herself attracted to anyway. Katherine then arranged a meeting between Kate's parents because each possessed the time-traveling gene but were unable to time-travel, and she hoped that their child would be able to jump between points, go back in time, and undo the changes that Saul had made. One twin eventually 'blinked' out of existence and the other twin, Kate's mother, was deeply angry about it. Katherine's partner, Saul, was also a historian, only he evidently wanted to change history instead of just study it, and Katherine got stranded in the past, pregnant with twins. Katherine was born a historian, and frequently traveled back and forth in time to study it.

Kate Pierce-Keller meets her grandmother, Katherine, who informs her that she has a time-traveling gene and of the following: Katherine was born far into the future and at that time, society had streamlined the educational process and everyone was born with the ability to excel at one subject (predetermined).

Three star reviews are the hardest to write for me, because I'm just not sure what there is to say. I have to give kudos to the author for attempting a young adult book about time travel.

Timebound by rysa walker