A review by cjyu
Tempest by Julie Cross

3.0

Well, this book came with a lot of hype, and I was hoping for some really nice twists and turns to live up to the hype... But it didn't. The best part was the ending of this book. (NOT because it ended, because it was the part that was the most well written and deep and sad.) I still feel like I KNOW NOTHING about how Jackson looks like: (Aside from the eyes) and really, the character development wasn't that strong. I was just so confused and can barely connect with the characters. Plot line was messy at points, and I got confused here and there about full jumps and half-jumps. Honestly, the writing was also OK, not unbearable, and it left a decent enough cliffhanger that will have me reading the next books. (Because I'm insane, and can never bear to know what happens next in a series, even if I hated that book. Unless I REALLY hated that book and it didn't live much of a cliffhanger.) but the balance of events was pretty good- not too much romance, not too much of everything else. Just the right amounts here and there. Although romance did seem to take up center stage quite a bit.

Tempest was a excellent original idea with an excellent twist on time traveling (cause you always hear time traveling has it's consequences. Unlike this time.) but it was delivered poorly. Hopefully, Julie Cross will do better next time. There's so much potential in Tempest- the idea itself and plot was pretty good, but messy in places, so if it was better delivered, I'm sure it would be a great book. However, I've heard this will become a movie, and by the sound of it, this will definitely make a better movie than book...