Can't Wait Wednesday #188 - Paris Adrift

Can't Wait Wednesday is a new weekly meme hosted here to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally, they're books that have yet to be released as well. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. 
 
This week's choice is -

Paris Adrift - E. J. Swift

Publisher - Solaris

Release date - February 2018

Find - Goodreads

It is the near future and humanity is on the brink of destruction. The only way it can be saved is if the course of history is forcibly altered. In the twenty-first century, misfit student Hallie Lane packs up her troubled life in England and takes the first train to Paris, where she falls in with the eclectic expat community as a bartender at the notorious Millie’s.

Here she finds a new family and an attraction to the enigmatic Leon. But Millie’s is not all that it seems: inside, there's a time portal in the keg room with an inescapable hold on her. As if that's not strange enough, she receives garbled warnings from a bizarre creature and keeps meeting a mysterious woman claiming to be a time agent.

Soon, she is navigating through the city’s turbulent past and future – from the wild years after the French Revolution, through the horrors of the Nazi occupation, and to a grim near future of her own making. But with only Leon to guide her in this fractured world, it soon becomes apparent that she is an unwitting pawn in a much bigger plan and the key to humanity's future lies in her hands.

I stumbled across this one the other day on the Tor website where they announced its publication. Needless to say, my eye was drawn straight to the fabulous cover art by Joey Hi-Fi. I have no idea if this is the final cover but I absolutely adore it and the synopsis of the book just makes me want to read it even more.

Guest Post: Windows Into The Soul - Tim Major

My first novel, YOU DON’T BELONG HERE, is about a house. 

Well, it isn’t. It’s about a man called Daniel Faint who has stolen a time machine. He’s wracked with remorse about events in his past, and he hopes to travel back in time to put them right. It’s about his disorientation as he tests the machine, his growing certainty that he’s being watched – perhaps by the locals of an unfamiliar town, perhaps by himself from the future, perhaps by his dead brother.

But it’s about a house.

The starting-point for YOU DON’T BELONG HERE, when it was intended to be a short story rather than a novel, was an article about people who had no permanent home, who instead acted as housesitters-cum-curators for vast properties in undesirable locations – warehouses, abandoned retail parks. It struck me that such a setup would be ideal for somebody intent on remaining hidden. No ties, a low profile. In the novel, Daniel Faint believes he’s being pursued, and housesitting a remote Cumbrian manor provides him with cover.

It’s about a specific house, too. My first office job was based in a large country manor that had once been a hotel. When I started, it had only been partially converted, with beds and TVs still in the rooms that hadn’t yet become offices. The swimming pool and golf course were available for use. Peacocks patrolled the grounds and screamed outside every window. It was strange and disorienting and kind of magical.

It was only recently that I realised that houses are central to most of my stories. My first published novella, CARUS & MITCH, is set entirely within the walls of a rural house, based on the home of a family friend from my childhood. BLIGHTERS features a giant alien slug confined to a Cumbrian bothy. My Mars stories revolve around the construction of sand-sculpted buildings, modelled on houses from the colonists’ memories. An as-yet-unpublished YA novel features a virtual-reality replica of the house I grew up in. Another project, still in the planning stages, features a house capable of independent thought.

There’s something practical in this preoccupation, I think. Gaining a clear mental image of a location goes a long way towards ‘finding’ a story, in the same way that pinning down the characteristics of a protagonist is vital. Moreover, characters are shaped, in part, by their surroundings. Your home isn’t just an expression of yourself. It goes the other way, too. It changes you. It makes you.

So, YOU DON’T BELONG HERE may be about time travel, paranoia, and disorientation. But it’s about a house. And it’s a house that, once it wraps its walls around Daniel Faint, refuses to let go.

Tim Major's time-travel thriller novel, YOU DON'T BELONG HERE (Snowbooks) is available now. He has also released two novellas, BLIGHTERS (Abaddon, 2016) and CARUS & MITCH (Omnium Gatherum, 2015) – the latter was shortlisted for a This Is Horror Award. His short stories have featured in Interzone, BFS Horizons and numerous anthologies. He is the Editor of the SF magazine, The Singularity, and blogs at www.cosycatastrophes.wordpress.com.

Waiting On Wednesday #145 - New Pompeii

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -

New Pompeii - Daniel Godfrey

ISBN - 9781783298112

Publisher - Titan

Release date - June 21 2016

Find - Goodreads |  Book Depository

Some time in the near future, energy giant NovusPart develops technology with an unexpected side-effect: it can transport objects and people from deep in the past to the present day.

For post-grad historian Nick Houghton, the controversy surrounding the programme matters less than the opportunity the company offers him. NovusPart’s executives reveal their biggest secret: they have saved most of the people from Pompeii, minutes before the volcanic eruption. Somewhere in central Asia, far from prying eyes, the company has built a replica of the city. In it are thousands of real Romans. And Nick has been chosen to study them.

But Nick soon realises that NovusPart are underestimating their captives. The Romans may be ignorant of modern technology – for now – but city boss Manius Barbatus wasn’t appointed by the emperor because he was soft. The stage is set for the ultimate clash of cultures in which time itself is a weapon…

Love the sound of New Pompeii so had to share! Titan are publishing some amazing books this year and I can't wait to get my hands on a copy! 

Waiting On Wednesday #135 - The Girl From Everywhere

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -

The Girl From Everywhere - Heidi Heilig

ISBN - 9780062380753

Publisher - Greenwillow

Release date - February 16 2016

Find - Goodreads

Heidi Heilig’s debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City to nineteenth-century Hawaii to places of myth and legend. Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father’s ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end. The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir, Rae Carson, and Rachel Hartman.

Nix’s life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix’s father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any place, any time. But now he’s uncovered the one map he’s always sought - 1868 Honolulu, before Nix’s mother died in childbirth. Nix’s life - her entire existence - is at stake. No one knows what will happen if her father changes the past. It could erase Nix’s future, her dreams, her adventures . . . her connection with the charming Persian thief, Kash, who’s been part of their crew for two years. If Nix helps her father reunite with the love of his life, it will cost her her own.

In The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility with witty, fast-paced dialogue, breathless adventure, and enchanting romance.

A severe case of cover love and the synopsis sounds fantastic!  Imagine being able to sail to any place in any time, regardless of whether it's real or fictional. I'll take that adventure please...

Waiting On Wednesday #129 - Into The Dim

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -

Into The Dim - Janet B Taylor

ISBN - 9780544602007

Publisher - HMH Books For Youg Readers

Release date - March 1 2016

Find - Goodreads | Book Depository

“Seventy-two hours, then we have to be back at the clearing. Sunrise on the third day.”

Being “the homeschooled girl,” in a small town, Hope Walton’s crippling phobias and photographic memory don’t help her fit in with her adoptive dad’s perfectly blonde Southern family. But when her mother is killed in a natural disaster thousands of miles from home, Hope’s secluded world crumbles. After an aunt she’s never met invites her to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic. She’s a member of a secret society of time travelers, and is actually trapped in the twelfth century in the age of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Now Hope must conquer her numerous fears and travel back in time to help rescue her mother before she’s lost for good. Along the way, she’ll discover more family secrets, and a mysterious boy who could be vital to setting her mother free… or the key to Hope’s undoing.

Addictive, romantic, and rich with historical detail, Into the Dim is an Outlander for teens.

Umm, can I have this now please? Seriously... How good does this sound? I'm a bit dubious about the 'Outlander for teens' tag but apart from that can't wait to get my hands on a copy. Love time travel & secret societies and Eleanor of Aquitaine is one of my favorite historical figures!

Top Ten #92 - Happy 5th Birthday TTT!

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the fabulous gals cover at The Broke & The Bookish. This week's topic is -

My Ten Favorite Top Ten Fifteen Topics I've Done

Hard to believe but Top Ten Tuesday has been around for five years! They've picked some fantastic topics in that time that really make you think. I've spent hours putting together my lists sometimes! In honor of TTT's fifth birthday here are my favorite topics from the time I've been joining in. Here's a hint though... I've done 92 Top Ten Tuesday posts now so it's not going to be just ten!

My first ever TTT, Spring 2013 TBR! Anybody like to hazard a guess as to how many of these books I've read now? I love doing the TBR posts if only to see what books I've might have missed.

Favorite Covers up to May 2013

Top Ten Books Featuring Travel In Some Way I went out of the box slightly and chose time travel!

Authors Who I Think Deserve More Recognition If I wrote this list today I would still include all five authors mentioned. Some have gained a bit more recognition and sadly, one is no longer with us.

Top Ten Books With X Setting I loved this topic! I chose the great city of London, but not as we know it...

Books I'd Like To See As Movies/Television Another great topic and I must be psychic as three on my list have been or are going to be tv shows!

Favorite Character Names

2014 Debut Authors I cannot believe that these were all 2014 releases! Looks guiltily at books still unread...

Books That Will Make You Cry Every single book on this list had me ranging from a few teary sniffles to full-on sobbing!

Bookish Bucket List This was a fun list to put together! Fifteen months later I have achieved one thing on that list.

Gateway Authors The authors that got me hooked on fantasy

Books I Want To Reread

2014 Releases I Never Read

Books From Childhood

Authors I Really Want To Meet

The Eighth Guardian - Meredith McCardle

The Eighth Guardian (Annum Guard #1) - Meredith McCardle

ISBN - 9781477847664

Publisher - Skyscape

Release date - May 6 2014

Find - Goodreads | Book Depository

Amanda Obermann. Code name Iris.

It’s Testing Day. The day that comes without warning, the day when all juniors and seniors at The Peel Academy undergo a series of intense physical and psychological tests to see if they’re ready to graduate and become government operatives. Amanda and her boyfriend Abe are top students, and they’ve just endured thirty-six hours of testing. But they’re juniors and don’t expect to graduate. That’ll happen next year, when they plan to join the CIA—together.

But when the graduates are announced, the results are shocking. Amanda has been chosen—the first junior in decades. And she receives the opportunity of a lifetime: to join a secret government organization called the Annum Guard and travel through time to change the course of history. But in order to become the Eighth Guardian in this exclusive group, Amanda must say good-bye to everything—her name, her family, and even Abe—forever.

Who is really behind the Annum Guard? And can she trust them with her life?

Well, if a book ever lived up to my 'five clock' rating it's this one!The story opens with Amanda and her boyfriend, Abe, waiting to find out the results of their Testing, a rigorous process that everyone undergoes at The Peel Academy. If you're lucky to graduate you are more than likely to be signed up by the CIA and so this is Amanda & Abe's plan - work hard, graduate, join the CIA and live happily ever after!

Things never quite got plan though, as we all know, and the unthinkable happens. Amanda graduates, the first Junior to do so in a long time but it's not a problem until she finds out where she's going. Instead of being recruited by the CIA and heading to Washington to wait for Abe for a year she's been chosen by an organization called the Annum Guard. Ripped away from everyone and everything she knows, given a new name and not knowing what's coming next leave Amanda, or Iris as she's to be known in the Guard, feeling unsettled and resentful towards her fellow Guardians, Yellow and Violet especially.

What follows is a fast paced journey through history, from the 1700's to the swinging 60's, and Iris learning a lot, both about herself and her fellow guardians. The Annum Guard travel through time subtly altering previous events or preventing key people from dying and while the majority of the Guardians do this for the good of humanity it turns out that there are a corrupt few within the Guard, using time travel for their own purposes and benefit. Going against everything she's ever been taught, Iris is determined to make the most of her new life and discovering that she might actually be a proper Guardian by birth rather than the outsider they all think of her as, she's insistent on becoming the best and to find out who doesn't want her to succeed.

Well written characters, a strong storyline and a fantastic way of weaving history and time travel together make for a great read. I liked Amanda/Iris but I think my favorite character may have to be Yellow who, despite being treated very badly by Iris, was the only one to step up when Iris goes against the rules of the Annum guard and goes rogue. I loved that Iris had a boyfriend at the start of the book but was worried that because of their separation we could end up with the ubiquitous love triangle. Thankfully we don't and without being more spoiler-ish than I already have been graduation is not the last we see of Abe or his family.

If you like time travel and history with a dash of mystery then check out The Eighth Guardian, I somehow managed to read it in one sitting and finally put it down after turning the last page just after 4am in the morning! I can't wait to check out the sequel, Blackout, and see what/where happens next!

Many thanks to Skyscape for providing me with a copy of The Eighth Guardian!

Waiting On Wednesday #78 - A Thousand Pieces of You

Waiting On Wednesday, where we put the spotlight on upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating, is hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine.

This week's choice is -

A Thousand Pieces of You - Claudia Gray
ISBN - 9780062278968
Publisher - Harper Teen
Expected release date - November 4th 2014
Find - Goodreads/Book Depository


Every Day meets Cloud Atlas in this heart-racing, space- and time-bending, epic new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray.

'Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.

Marguerite can’t let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined.'

A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure. - Goodreads

Look at that cover! I think I would probably pick this up just for the cover but add in comparisons to Every Day and Could Atlas, I'm sold. Who do I have to maim to get hold of this? Just kidding...

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: Shadows Fall Away - Kit Forbes

 Welcome to the Cover Reveal for

Shadows Fall Away by Kit Forbes

presented by Month9Books!

Be sure to enter the giveaway found at the end of the post!

Mark Stewart is one incident away from becoming a juvenile delinquent, and his parents have had enough. They ship Mark off to London England to stay with his eccentric aunt Agatha who is obsessed with all things Jack the Ripper. After a strange twist of luck, Mark is struck by lightning, and he wakes to find himself in 1888 Victorian London.

His interest in a string of murders Scotland Yard has yet to solve make him a likely suspect. After all, why would a young boy like Mark know so much about the murders? Could he be the ripper they’ve been searching for? Convinced the only way to get back home is to solve the murders, Mark dives headfirst into uncovering the truth.

Mark’s only distraction comes in the form of the beautiful Genie Trembly, a girl who is totally out of his league and who may have already caught the attention of the infamous ripper. To save her, he’ll endanger both their lives, and risk being trapped in the past forever.

Title: SHADOWS FALL AWAY
Publication date: September 23, 2014
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.
Author: Kit Forbes

Kit Forbes has been a lover of books, history, and all things paranormal for as long as she can remember. She lives in Western Pennsylvania with her youngest daughter and an assortment of cats who give new meaning to the world bizarre.

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After Eden - Helen Douglas

After Eden - Helen Douglas
ISBN - 9781408828694
Publisher - Bloomsbury Childrens
Release date - November 7th 2013
Find - Goodreads/Book Depository/AmazonUK/AmazonUS

'When mysterious new boy Ryan Westland shows up at her school Eden Anfield is intrigued. On the face of it, he's a typical American teenager. So how come he doesn't recognize pizza and hasn't heard of Hitler? What puzzles Eden most, however, is the interest he's taking in her.

As Eden falls in love with Ryan, she stumbles across a book in Ryan's bedroom - a biography of her best friend - written fifty years in the future. Unravelling Ryan's secret, she discovers he has one unbelievably important purpose . . . and she might just have destroyed his only chance of success.' - Goodreads

After Eden is the impressive tale of an ordinary girl who may just well end up saving the world. everything in Eden's life is normal now, especially after the tragedy of losing both her parents in a car accident. She lives with her aunt, works hard at school and whilst not hugely popular she has a great group of friends, including her best friend Connor who is harboring an unrequited crush on her.Everything changes the day Ryan Westland, a new American student, arrives at their school and doesn't appear to know what pizza is or who some of the world's most significant historical figures were. From here on in Eden's life becomes a rollercoaster and what she thought she knew is turned on its head, especially after an odd reaction by Ryan's sister when first meeting her and then accidentally taking home one of Ryan's textbooks only to discover that it's actually a biography of Connor set decades into the future when such a thing shouldn't exist. Pulling all the pieces together Eden works out exactly who Ryan is and when he's from, becoming the one person that may be able to help him prevent a worldwide tragedy.

After Eden combined some of my favorite things - Cornwall, time travel and sci-fi - in a fantastic effort at creating a fairly unique story which kept me turning the pages. The characters were utterly convincing as teenagers, Eden was great with her initial innocence and confusion over Ryan and not wanting to accept that Connor was in love with her. If a time traveling teenager can see this then it has to be pretty obvious! She was a little whiny at times but what teenager isn't? It added to the authenticity of Douglas' writing as I'm pretty sure I could be very whiny on occasion when I was a teenager! Ryan was almost sweet in his ignorance of things on earth, especially not knowing what pizza was but it makes you wonder how he was ever chosen for a mission as important as the one he is currently on. He was also willing to flaunt the rules almost without a second thought by confirming her suspicions about what was going on, even though he knows that there are penalties to pay if he is found out. I found the character of the Cleaner interesting, I liked the idea of someone traveling along with them to ensure that there are no loose ends or major repercussions after they go back to their own time. Unfortunately, I guessed the identity of the cleaner far too early into the story which spoiled things a bit but that's my only niggle about the book really.

On the whole After Eden was a fantastic read, quick but interesting and I loved the mentions of astronomy, naming the constellations & planets and so on. The relationship between Eden & Ryan was intriguing too, not quite insta-love but almost, and had I gone into After Eden not knowing there was a sequel coming I don't think I would have appreciated the ending, as predictable as it was. Having said that I can't wait to get my hands on Chasing Stars and see what happens to our starstruck couple next.

Thanks to Bloomsbury, via Netgalley, for providing me with an e-arc of After Eden!

 

Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman

Fortunately, the Milk - Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Chris Riddell
ISBN - 9781408841761
Publisher - Bloomsbury Childrens
Release date - September 17th 2013
Find - Goodreads/Book Depository/AmazonUK/AmazonUS

'You know what it’s like when your mum goes away on a business trip and Dad’s in charge. She leaves a really, really long list of what he’s got to do. And the most important thing is DON’T FORGET TO GET THE MILK. Unfortunately, Dad forgets. So the next morning, before breakfast, he has to go to the corner shop, and this is the story of why it takes him a very, very long time to get back.

Featuring: Professor Steg (a time-travelling dinosaur), some green globby things, the Queen of the Pirates, the famed jewel that is the Eye of Splod, some wumpires, and a perfectly normal but very important carton of milk.' - Goodreads

Anyone who knows me at all will know anything Neil Gaiman publishes is immediately snapped up by me! I can't help it, there are very few authors that write both children's and adult fiction who do it so effortlessly. Switching between the two without so much as a hiccup! Fortunately, the Milk was on top of my 'Neil Gaiman want' list as soon as I heard there were dinosaurs, aliens and vampires wumpires involved and that Chris Riddell was illustrating the UK version (Skottie Young illustrated the US version). 

Dad is in charge whilst Mum is away at a conference, naturally you know something is going to go wrong and it does - they run out of milk for their cereal. The impetus for Dad to go to the shop though is knowing he can't have milk in his tea! When he doesn't return the children start to wonder what's happened. Talking to a neighbor? Gone to a different shop? Kidnapped by aliens? It might just be the last one..

There were an amazing array of characters - intergalactic dinosaur police, wumpires, ancient civilizations worshipping the Eye of Splod, pirates, aliens that look like snot and all fabulously illustrated and brought to life on every page. When Dad (Riddell's illustration of Dad looks remarkably like a certain Mr. Gaiman) returns and starts relaying his tale neither of his children believe him but you just never know what a carton of milk might have to do. Neil's writing is both hilarious and beautiful, although Fortunately is a short book it will keep you - and any children that you might like to share the book with - completely entertained from start to finish! I've bought a finished copy for myself and I'm about to buy another copy for the twins for Christmas, I can't wait to read this one to them and tell them all about Professor Steg, his Floaty-Ball-Person-Carrier and a wumpire called Pale & Interesting Edvard!

Many thanks to Bloomsbury, via Netgalley, for providing me with a copy of Fortunately, the Milk...

Blog Tour & Review: Endless - Amanda Gray

Welcome to my stop on the tour for Endless by Amanda Gray! Don't forget to enter the giveaway!

Endless - Amanda Gray
ISBN - 9780988340954
Publisher - Month9 Books
Release date - September 10th 2013
Find - Goodreads/Amazon US

IN A RACE AGAINST TIME, HOW DO YOU KEEP THOSE YOU LOVE SAFE?

Jenny Kramer knows she isn’t normal. After all, not everybody can see the past lives of people around them. When she befriends Ben Daulton, resident new boy, the pair stumbles on an old music box with instructions for “mesmerization” and discover they may have more in common than they thought.

Like a past life.

Using the instructions in the music box, Ben and Jenny share a dream that transports them to Romanov Russia and leads them to believe they have been there together before. But they weren’t alone. Nikolai, the mysterious young man Jenny has been seeing in her own dreams was there, too. When Nikolai appears next door, Jenny is forced to acknowledge that he has traveled through time and space to find her. Doing so means he has defied the laws of time, and the Order, an ominous organization tasked with keeping people in the correct time, is determined to send him back. While Ben, Jenny and Nikolai race against the clock -- and the Order -- the trio discovers a link that joins them in life -- and beyond death.

As soon as I saw the beautiful cover for Endless I was sold, that was only confirmed on discovering that the book was about Russian history, reincarnation and time travel. Russian history and time travel are two things guaranteed to get me to read something (I've been slightly obsessed with Russia since I was little) so I couldn't wait to start Endless.

Endless is the story of Jenny, a bit of a loner and different to the rest of her school friends with a wonderful best friend, Tiffany (one of my favorite characters) and an architect father who's reluctant to let her pursue her dream of being an artist thanks to her mother's erratic behavior. The story opens with Jenny being pressured to take part in a seance using a Ouija board, after blacking out she discovers that a message did come through - meant for her. From that night on Jenny can no longer pretend her life is normal, to living with the power of seeing people's past lives with a mere brush of the hand, she spends her days wearing gloves and avoiding touch. Thanks to her dad she meets Ben, the son of a client, who seems as much of a loner as she does. Exploring the attic of Ben's house they come across a music box and instructions for mesmerization. This leads to a shared dream/vision between the two of them and the realization that somehow their lives, along with of another boy, Nikolai, are inexplicably linked together. Things only get more complicated for the three of them as they fight to understand what is going on and in the case of Jenny & Nikolai, stay together. They face all manner of obstacles, not least a mysterious Order that live in an isolated retreat and may or may not have included Jenny's mother as a member.

For me, Endless was a great read which I enjoyed from start to finish. I loved how, even though there were two boys in Jenny's life (in the past as well as the present) there was no love triangle  - it was obvious, to me anyway, who Jenny should be with but considering the circumstances I would have liked to have seen more of their relationship development in the past as Jenny was very quick to literally jump into his arms in the present. I liked the snippets of Russian history and the inclusion of the Romanov family who must be both one of the most famous and one of the most tragic families in history. It was nice that at least in fiction one of them had a happy ending of sorts.. What I would have loved to see more of was the actual time travel although I did like the sections where how it worked was explained and how there were rules & consequences for using time travel, hence the need for the Order. I'm definitely hoping there's a sequel as that was one ending I did not like, it certainly appears to be set up for one anyway so fingers crossed! If you like mystery, time travel and Russian history with a dash of romance then you'll love Endless, definitely worth reading.

ABOUT AMANDA GRAY:

Amanda Gray believes in magic and fantasy and possibilities. She is a team of two bestselling authors who live only miles apart but have never met in person. They talk on the phone and are the best of friends and between them have written more than a dozen novels and novellas and have had their work appear on television.

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Top Ten Tuesday #10

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely people at The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is -

Top Ten Books Featuring Travel In Some Way

This one stumped me for a while but then I started thinking - travel, journey, time travel! So this is a top ten of books I've read involving (time) travel.

A Wrinkle In Time - Madeleine L'Engle

The Emerald Atlas - John Stephens

The Map Of Time - Felix Palma

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children - Ransom Riggs

Obsidian Mirror - Catherine Fisher

The Man From Primrose Lane - James Renner

A Traveller In Time - Alison Uttley

The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

Outlander - Diana Gabaldon

The Sterkarm Handshake - Susan Price