Tempest

A Novel

De: Julie Cross

Narrado por: Matthew Brown

In Julie Cross' 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.

©2011 Julie Cross (P)2012 Macmillan Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Matthew Brown narrates the extraordinary events of Jackson's life in the same tone and pace that he delivers the ordinary ones, lending authenticity to this mix of mystery, science fiction, and everyday teen experiences.” —AudioFile Magazine

“I have seen the future and it is Jackson Meyer! I loved Julie Cross's engrossing and engaging TEMPEST. If I could time-jump, I'd read the sequel yesterday at the very latest.” —Nancy Holder, New York Times bestselling author of the CRUSADE series

“Once I started TEMPEST, I couldn't put it down. Once I finished TEMPEST, I was dying for the next installment. Julie Cross takes readers on an unforgettable trip through time in this inventive, suspenseful and romantic tale. A thrilling debut from a fantastic new voice.” —Courtney Summers, Award-Winning author of CRACKED UP TO BE and SOME GIRLS ARE

Unique take to time travel

I found this story entertaining because it took an original approach to time travel. Moreover, the story unfolded in an organic manner, which is usually rare in a book that swayed back and forth in time. As such, it was also great to see Jackson, the main character, grow and change throughout the book. He went from being a snobby, rich teen to living through actions and consequences in a way that most nineteenth-year-olds would not.

Sorry, I was not impressed.

I'm sorry to say this story is quite far from the best writing I have read. This book did not have that "wow" factor for me, and I did not find many of the scenes or most of the dialogue compelling. In fact most of the dialogue was overly-simplistic and stilted. I found the narrative distracting at some points when all of the sudden some random fact is mentioned that the (reader) is just supposed to accept as truth when it's not integral to the story and is just inserted like a random detail. The whole premise of time-travelers, conspiracy, government agencies, rougue groups, and scientific experimentation in labs was just not well-formed and fleshed-out. I did not find it convincing. The book finally engaged me a lot more only as I reached the two-thirds or more point in the story. I stuck with it because I had paid for it and also because I don't feel right about reviewing anything I don't finish. I was rewarded with the last one-fourth of the story all of the sudden being a lot more interesting. We finally got to two scenes in particular that grabbed me and engaged my feelings.
The audio production was sorely lacking. The narrator's normal voice was fine to listen to, but the voices he did for some of the characters were completely annoying. The MC's best friend and science-geek is made to sound like he has a septum problem or very heavy sinus congestion (bad cold), and a supposedly highly-educated and highly-esteemed scientist-doctor is voiced to sound as if he's a simple-minded ghoul that belongs in one of my other favorite series. I cannot imagine how anyone thought that was a good production choice. Wrong!

Not your average time traveler story

The book starts with the character saying "forget everything you know about time trave"l. which I'm glad the author did because this was a really good book and very easy to follow the timeline between the different times.

Grandma of two teens

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes, fast moving

What other book might you compare Tempest to and why?

Robin Cook. His books usually have lots of surprises (twist & turns)

Have you listened to any of Matthew Brown’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No but I do listen to lots of audio books and he did a great job

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

I could not stop listening to it. It made me laugh when Jackson had to clean up the bathroom at the gym which overflowed.
There were several scenes that made me cry but the most powerful one was when Holly read the card Jackson had written to Courtney(his sister) who died with his feelings about her but he never actually gave it to her.
I don't want to spoil it but the ending was sad to me too.

Any additional comments?

You will not want to stop listening once you get started. Great debut book for this author. Sad that I have to wait until next year for the sequel.

every man's dream

If you could sum up Tempest in three words, what would they be?

A fantastic book

Who was your favorite character and why?

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Which character – as performed by Matthew Brown – was your favorite?

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Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes this was another book I couldn't get enough of the story. It was kind of out there but I think in a way it's every man's dream to go back in time. To be able to time travel that would be awesome.