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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.
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I thought this was a pretty good book as far as YA books go, especially since I'm such a sucker for time travel. I like how they took a new twist on the age-old rules. For instance, if Jackson goes back into the past, he doesn't change anything in the future. The book does get a little complicated a bit later and has a bit more complexity than just time-travel, but I think it introduces it well. I was definitely captivated and easily finished this book, unlike other YA books cough City of Bones cough which I'm finding a chore to make it through.
The one thing I was a little unsold on was the character of Holly. I just wasn't that convinced that Jackson and Holly were so in love. While I like how they go to the action right away, I really didn't feel that Holly was so special and worth saving. I was much more fascinated with the concept of Jackson's dead twin sister, which I was hoping they would do more with in the novel. Oh well, I guess that's #2, right?