judeinthestars's review
dark
emotional
medium-paced
3.5
This book was released unannounced a couple of months ago and it’s not what I would have expected from either authors. I like when authors surprise me though, and when they try different things and genres. And these two work well together.
In this first book in a new trilogy, the world as we know it has disappeared, climate change has been managed, everyone lives in peace. At least in Tekano, the former USA. On the surface, a dream come true. Underneath, however, chaos threatens. Amara Pierce, Secretary of History and the daughter of the president, and Isa Adams, Tekano’s best soldier, are called upon to travel back in time and fix a glitch some unknown enemy has created in the timeline. Ten years ago, Amara and Isa, teenagers at the time, were everything to each other, until Isa decided otherwise. Now, they have to put a decade of grief and anger behind them and work together to save the world.
The time-travelling arc is great and I wish it was the main focus of the story. As it is, the second-chance romance is at the centre, and it didn’t work as well for me. Maybe because I find Isa annoying? Also because the MCs go from from barely speaking to each other to jumping back in bed together in a matter of pages. And I get that the end of the world looms over them and they don’t have time for what Isa would probably call details, but Amara’s turnabout was too rushed for me.
I look forward to spending more time in the world the authors created. I enjoyed the contrast between the present in which the story is set (2287) and the periods in the past. I hope this is what the next book, Interference, which should be released sometime this winter, will be about: fighting for what’s right, saving the world, learning from the past while trying not to mess with it irremediably… The tension and adrenaline that come with the feeling of impending doom is unmatched and the authors have set the perfect path for that. I’d happily take more sci-fi over more romance and the cliffhanger on which Glitch ends makes me think I might be in luck.
I received a copy from the authors and I am voluntarily leaving a review.
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