Showing posts with label Tempest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tempest. Show all posts

January 23, 2017

Weekly Spotlight - Tempest



Tempest
The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies—nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors—it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world. 



Vortex
Jackson Meyer has thrown himself into his role as an agent for Tempest, the shadowy division of the CIA that handles all time-travel-related threats. Despite his heartbreak at losing the love of his life, Jackson has proved himself to be an excellent agent. However, after an accidental run in with Holly—the girl he altered history to save—Jackson is once again reminded of what he's lost. And when Eyewall, an opposing division of the CIA, emerges, Jackson and his fellow agents not only find themselves under attack, but Jackson begins to discover that the world around him has changed and someone knows about his erased relationship with Holly, putting both their lives at risk all over again.




Timestorm
The battle between the Tempest division and Eyewall comes to a shocking conclusion in this final installment of the Tempest trilogy, where the need for survival stretches the boundaries of history, both past and future, and the world Jackson once knew is a place forever marked by the detrimental effects of time travel.

As Jackson recovers from his brush with death, he’s surrounded not only by the people he loves most—his dad, Courtney, and Holly—he’s also amongst a few of the original time travelers. As he learns more about their life and how this world began, it becomes apparent that they need to put a stop to Thomas and Doctor Ludwig’s experimenting at Eyewall Headquarters. What starts out as an escape plan becomes a war between time and humanity, between freewill and peace. It’s the battle Jackson was born to fight and he’s not about to back down. Not for anything. Not for anyone.


April 14, 2014

Timestorm


Timestorm

by Julie Cross

Book: Tempest #3
Publisher: St Martins Griffin
Pub Date: Jan 28 2014
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
Format: Hardcover
Source: Borrowed
Book LinksGoodreads  Amazon   

The battle between the Tempest division and Eyewall comes to a shocking conclusion in this final installment of the Tempest trilogy, where the need for survival stretches the boundaries of history, both past and future, and the world Jackson once knew is a place forever marked by the detrimental effects of time travel.

As Jackson recovers from his brush with death, he’s surrounded not only by the people he loves most—his dad, Courtney, and Holly—he’s also amongst a few of the original time travelers. As he learns more about their life and how this world began, it becomes apparent that they need to put a stop to Thomas and Doctor Ludwig’s experimenting at Eyewall Headquarters. What starts out as an escape plan becomes a war between time and humanity, between freewill and peace. It’s the battle Jackson was born to fight and he’s not about to back down. Not for anything. Not for anyone.




My Review: The final book in the series ): I'm sad to see this one end, but I know Julie is coming out with another book, so at least I can look forward to that. 

So we start off with Jackson going back and forth in time. He got hurt and had a massive injury to his brain, so it lead him to travel to time and then waking up quickly in the present then jumps back into another time. After a bit he sleeps and wakes up to find out where he is and just how bad he go hurt and that he will have to things slow for a while. 

So what happens is that Holly has now joined eyewall. Holly and Jackson are enimies, which is even worse at the fact that she doesn't have any memories of him. Holly has no idea that they were ever together and happy. Which wasn't fun for me, I so wanted them to be together, but after everything was done, I could see why Julie did that.

Now the ending of the book was bittersweet for me. The ending was okay, all lose ends were tied up and all, but it didn't give me any shock factor like the past two books did. Once the book was done, I just put it on my shelf, I wasn't really shocked enough to sit there and thing about what just happened. That was my only real issue with the book, otherwise it was still a great book and love the entire series!




My Rating:
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August 05, 2013

Vortex


Vortex
by Julie Cross

Book: Tempest #2
Publisher: St. Martins Griffin
Pub Date: Jan 15 2013
Gere: Young Adult
Format: Hardcover
Source: Borrowed
Book LinksGoodreads Amazon  

Julie Cross's Vortex is the thrilling second installment of the Tempest series, in which the world hangs in the balance as a lovelorn Jackson must choose who to save.
Jackson Meyer has thrown himself into his role as an agent for Tempest, the shadowy division of the CIA that handles all time-travel-related threats. Despite his heartbreak at losing the love of his life, Jackson has proved himself to be an excellent agent. However, after an accidental run in with Holly—the girl he altered history to save—Jackson is once again reminded of what he's lost. And when Eyewall, an opposing division of the CIA, emerges, Jackson and his fellow agents not only find themselves under attack, but Jackson begins to discover that the world around him has changed and someone knows about his erased relationship with Holly, putting both their lives at risk all over again.


My Review: In Tempest we left off with Jackson joining the CIA,and having to leave Holly behind. Now Jackson is a  CIA agent working with Tempest, to track down some not so cool guys. Some missions are good, while some end in yelling from Cheif Marshall. training isn't a walk in the park either. Soon they learn that the New York mayor is having a charity ball. Jackson and agent Kendrick are sent there for a week to keep an eye on things and attend the ball, just in case. When in New York, Jackson learns a lot of new things. First off his partner has a secret fiance. The mayor shows up randomly and tells him more about whats going on, and then just walks out. Plus his place...isn't very comfortable. Maybe he won't sleep on the floor every night. The following day he and Kendrick are off to house shop. Jackson has to at least make his place look like his cover as a college kid. As they near the end of their shopping, a girl walks by and has Jackson stopped in his tracks. The girl was Holly, HIS Holly. He watches her and notices this other guy with her. He tries to not think about her, or ask for much information. Though he feels like he shouldn't have done that. Jackson wants to know more about Holly. He really does miss her, even if it can't happen right now. Soon they leave and continue on with their supplies. Will Jackson try to find and talk to her? Or will her leave her alone? Jackson and Kendrick must prepare themselves for this week ahead of them, along with how they plan to handle the ball. 

As you go on with the book, you will find its different from book one. Its more science, travel, agents, then you read in book one. Though it works and makes this book really good, I find the ending of this book the best part. You might agree if you read it to.


My Rating:
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June 11, 2012

Tempest

Tempest
By Julie Cross

Book: Tempest #1
Publisher: St. Martins' Griffin
Pub Date: January 17, 2012
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Print
Source: Borrowed
Book Links: Goodreads  Amazon

The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies—nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors—it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.

My Review:
 
Jackson Meyer is living in the year 2009. Jackson seems like a normal teenager except that he can time travel. Jackson can only travel back a few days at most, and can’t travel to the future beyond what he’s already lived. Jackson thinks this is a harmless pursuit until two mysterious people show up in Holly’s dorm room to talk to him. But instead of talking a fight broke out and one of the men shot Holly. Now Jackson must got back in time to stop this from happening, only problem is he accidently went back too far and can't got back to 2009. Now Jackson must relive some past and face something he never though would happen. Ill tell you this book has more than you think.  



My Rating:
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