19-year-old Jackson Meyer can time travel. Not much, usually just back a few hours or days. And when he does go back, nothing he does actually impacts the future - no one remembers interacting with him if it happened on one of his jumps, if he hurts himself he isn't seriously damaged when he gets back, and if he does something on one of his jumps, like break a window, that thing is undone when he gets back to the present. It's not really serving a purpose, but he's having fun experimenting, and keeping it a secret from everyone but his science genius friend who is helping him figure out why it's happening and how to use it. At least it is all fun until some people who also appear to be able to "jump" back in time show up at his girlfriend's college dor, attempt to kidnap Jackson, and kill his girlfriend in the struggle. Now Jackson has jumped back 2 years, farther than he's jumped before, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't get back to his "real" time. And the Enemies of Time are still after him.
An incomplete list of books that I've read and liked. Or not liked. And would recommend. Or not recommend. But mostly would.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Prepare to Die by Paul Tobin
Despite being at their mercy, Steve Clarke, aka superhero Reaver, is inexplicably given a boon by arch-nemesis Octagon and his cadre of supervillains, Eleventh Hour - instead of killing him outright, they grant him 2 weeks to take care of his affairs before he reports back to them to fight to the death. Steve uses the two weeks to come to grips with how he became a superhero in the first place, the loss of superfriends, his own moral ambiguity at times, and to reunite with his high school love, the girl who got away (or was pushed away due to Steve's unanticipated mutation caused by a chemical spill which transformed some of the cars occupants and killed others).
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Sequel to Divergent
Tris, now on the run as war erupts, attempts to figure out what information is so vital, or so dangerous, that some factions would destroy others just to contain it.
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Divergent by Veronica Roth
In dystopian Chicago, society has been divided into 5 factions, each dedicated to cultivating a certain value:
- Amity (the peaceful)
- Candor (the honest)
- Abnegation (the selfless)
- Erudite (the intelligent)
- Dauntless (the brave)
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Monday, August 16, 2010
Only the Good Spy Young, by Ally Carter, Bk 4 in the Gallagher Girls series
In the previous three books in the series Cammie aka Chameleon Morgan has found out how serious being a Gallagher Girl is. In the beginning it was fun knowing that she was a spy-in-training, sneaking out to meet a townie boy in Book 1 and using their special skills at detection, evasion, invention and deception to learn more about the mysterious boys from Blackthorne Academy in Book 2.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
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