The first instalment in a mind-bending journey through time with a cast of unforgettable characters
Seventeen-year-old Skylar has always been haunted by fleeting yet powerful feelings that something around her has gone wrong. Those impressions have never seemed to reflect anything real and have only earned her stares and whispers behind her back. But after she meets a mysterious boy named Win, she learns an unsettling truth: we are not alone on Earth. In fact, visitors from beyond the stars are manipulating our planet and the essential fabric of our world; life as we know it is starting to unravel. And Skylar--and her heightened awareness--just may be the key to our salvation.
I've been loving sci-fi YA lately and since I'd heard so much good stuff about Megan Crewe's Fallen World series, I thought this book would be perfect for me. Sadly, no. I had to push myself to finish it due to sluggish pacing, generic characters, and a plot thoroughly devoid of excitement.
The premise had so much promise what with aliens and time travel, and yet it really failed to deliver on those concepts. The aliens are rather un-alienlike and the time travel choices felt so arbitrary. Pretty much all the questions and mysteries could have been solved immediately if they'd just traveled to the right time and place, but no, that doesn't happen. Cue the frustration on my part.
The first 100 pages of the book define tedious and it really doesn't improve much after that. I was just really underwhelmed by everything.
