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Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her future, but a tragic accident has put her once-bright career at risk. Closely tied to her musical skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has. When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is drawn back hundreds of years through time. Etta wakes, confused and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a fierce sea battle. Nicholas Carter, the handsome young prize master of a privateering ship, has been hired to retrieve Etta and deliver her unharmed to the Ironwoods, a powerful family in the Colonies-the very same one that orchestrated her jump back, and one Nicholas himself has mysteries ties to. But discovering she can time travel is nothing compared to the shock of discovering the true reason the Ironwoods have snared her in their web. Another traveler has stolen an object of untold value from them, and, if Etta can find it, they will return her to her own time. Out of options, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the mysterious traveler. But as they draw closer to each other and the end of their search, the true nature of the object, and the dangerous game the Ironwoods are playing, comes to light-threatening to separate her not only from Nicholas, but her path home... forever.… (more)
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Passenger is an exciting ride through time. With interweaving plots and characters you love and love to hate, this story keeps you reading even when you should be doing something else. I would tell you more, but trust
Jack Murphy
Nicholas Carter is a pirate (technically a legal privateer). He has orders to take the ship Ardent and get the two female passengers on board to New York to Cyrus Ironwood. Cyrus is the head of the Ironwood clan and he wants Etta to obtain an object that her mother, Rose has hidden. Etta has inherited the ability to travel through special passages in time. Etta knows nothing about time travel or the object the Ironwoods are seeking. Nicholas will go with her to keep her safe and help her navigate through the different years (without causing too many time ripples or changing history). Can they find the object Cyrus desires? If they do find it, should they give it to him? Why was this object hidden? Will Etta ever be able to get home? You will have to read Passenger to find out!
I found Passenger to be a difficult novel to read. Things are not explained in the novel. We are thrust into this world without any information. We finally get some information in the last three quarters of the novel (way too late). I also found the novel to be unnecessarily long. We have pages full of thoughts and descriptions that are not needed (you can just skip over them). I feel the novel needs a major editing (just my personal opinion) and rewriting. The characters are not very appealing (or likeable). Etta gets more interesting towards the end of the book (but by then most people have already quit reading). Passenger has potential. It has an interesting concept on time travel (and the object they are searching for), but I found the outcome disappointing. I give Passenger 2.75 out of 5 stars. The one thing that really turned me off was the ending. I kept reading the book to see how it would end. Instead of a decent ending, we are given a cliffhanger (spoiler ahead--nothing is resolved). Passenger is overall a very frustrating book.
I received a complimentary copy of Passenger from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I enjoyed this fast-paced adventure story. Since Etta doesn't know the history of the travelers or how she can move between times, she - and the reader - are given explanations throughout the text. There's the requisite love story, of course, and I could have done with less angst on that angle. I did like how traveling between times with other characters was a way of discovering what rights a black man or a woman had in different places and times, though a few moments felt downright preachy. The ending leaves no question that there will be a sequel.
The characters in the story were either good or they were bad. There wasn’t really any middle ground. I never really connected with Etta too well. I prefered Nicholas to her. At first, their connection seemed a little instalove-ish but I did end up liking their relationship. There were some really good revelations in the second half that started to connect the dots between things that happened in the first half. And then it ended on quite the cliffhanger! I will be really interested to visit this world again when the sequel comes out.
I didn't make it very far with this book, to page 42, so I'm not going to rate it. It started out so slow and boring though that I had a hard time getting into it and I have no desire to pick it back up. Maybe I'll try it again one day but for now it's going back to the library.
The female who finds she has inherited the gift of time travel is 17-year-old Etta Spencer, who is thrust into the past by Sophia Ironwood, a member of the powerful Ironwood family that controls those with the ability. In particular, the Grandfather, Cyrus Ironwood, rules with an iron glove, and has called for Etta to be abducted. Nicolas Carter, 19, is the handsome half grandson of Cyrus who falls for Etta, and she for him. There are plenty of allusions to stealing moments of time and being together outside of time….
The two go on a perilous treasure hunt to find The Secret Object everyone wants, and at each point they are found and chased by other time travelers. Then, just when they think they are on top of the situation, there is a wrinkle in the fabric of time….
Evaluation: This book was too derivative and convoluted for me, and the plot never explained a number of the premises that stretched credulity even accepting the existence of time travel. Some aspects that didn’t make sense were the whole personality of Etta’s mom, the way everyone unquestioningly obeys the evil and tyrannical Cyrus, and why, given the whole length and breadth of time, Etta and Nicholas didn’t just drop off of Cyrus’s radar and live their lives.
The book ends on a cliffhanger, but I doubt I will be back for future installments.
This book does end on a cliff hanger but knowing another book will be out makes it a bit
I can't wait to see how Etta and Nicholas will fair and hopefully find their way back to each other!!
Kudos for making this YA NOT dystopian and in current day. Also props for a main female character who seemed real.
Overall, I don’t quite know how to feel about this book. It was good but also overly wordy and confusing.