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Once More (The
Historians #1)
by Trisha Leigh
Release
Date: 09/29/15
Bloomsbury
Spark
Summary
from Goodreads:
If you could learn the identity of your one true love—even though you
will never meet— would you?
Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting your one true love.
If you could save your one true love from an untimely death, would you be able to resist?
Sixteen-year-old Kaia Vespasian is an apprentice to the Historians—a group charged with using time travel to document the triumphs and failures of the past—and she can’t resist a peek at her long-dead soul mate in Ancient Egypt. Before she knows it, she’s broken every rule in the book, and the consequences of getting caught could destroy more than just her new romance.
Or would you have the strength to watch him die?
But when Kaia notices a fellow classmate snooping around in a time where he doesn’t belong, she suspects he has a secret of his own—and the conspiracy she uncovers could threaten the entire universe. If her experience has taught her anything, to changing history means facing the consequences. The Historians trained her to observe and record the past, but Kaia never guessed she might have to protect it— in a race across time to save her only chance at a future.
Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting your one true love.
If you could save your one true love from an untimely death, would you be able to resist?
Sixteen-year-old Kaia Vespasian is an apprentice to the Historians—a group charged with using time travel to document the triumphs and failures of the past—and she can’t resist a peek at her long-dead soul mate in Ancient Egypt. Before she knows it, she’s broken every rule in the book, and the consequences of getting caught could destroy more than just her new romance.
Or would you have the strength to watch him die?
But when Kaia notices a fellow classmate snooping around in a time where he doesn’t belong, she suspects he has a secret of his own—and the conspiracy she uncovers could threaten the entire universe. If her experience has taught her anything, to changing history means facing the consequences. The Historians trained her to observe and record the past, but Kaia never guessed she might have to protect it— in a race across time to save her only chance at a future.
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Brooke's Review:
I want to thank Bloomsbury Spark for providing me with a copy of this book to read and give an honest review. receiving this book for free has not altered my opinion or review in any way.
So, I'm a fan of time travel books. And I know it takes a lot to be able to write one, so much to think about. Which is why the blurb of this book totally and completely intrigued me. Not only was it time travel, which I often associate with the future (for some unknown reason) but it was time travel into the past. And when I say past, much of it takes place in ancient times, Ceaser times. And then the neatest thing about this book, it takes place in the future. And not our future, like Back to the future, but in a world after our world has been destroyed. We are talking YA Sci-fi time travel, what could be better?
Kaia is an interesting character. She's a historian, and she is dedicated to ensuring the future of her world is different from what they've seen in the past. So she jumps back into different points in time to study what went wrong and is slated to use those experiences to make sure things go right for her and the future generations. She's always pretty much walked the straight and narrow. Rarely steering from the path that's been set before her. But Kaia seems to have an itch to delve into things she shouldn't. and doesn't seem to be afraid to step outside the box. And when she's faced with the possibility of meeting her true, the one true love she will ever have, she's determined to find out about him, even if he did live B.C.E.
I really liked Kaia's curiosity. Even if it meant going against everything she had ever been taught, she is still willing to search for the truth. I will say her decisions at times were rash, and really not in her best interest. And it was way too easy for her to get away with the things she did, despite the fact that she kept saying people were trusted and not much oversight was given in her time. I found it hard to believe she would not be watched more than she was given the nature of what the elders were trying to do.
There seem to be three potential loves in this book. Two of which Kaia really never takes a romantic interest in because she's completely drawn to her true. But I did spend much of the book waiting to see if Kaia would change her mind and see things in the other boys she never did before. Thankfully, the love triangle, or quadrangle, did not come to fruition or I might have been done with the book before it ended.
I really enjoyed the secondary characters in this book. They truly complimented Kaia. The goody goody, the one who has found her true, and, of course, the male best friend who would love to be so much more. All the characters really shape who Kaia is and how she reacts to situations.
I love the idea of Kaia's brother and who he may be in the future. We learn so little about him in this book, but what we do see is important and I can tell it will intensify the plot of future books in this series.
The overall plot is really interesting though I could have done with less of the romance, to be honest. I understood the need for it, since it is why Kaia chooses to travel alone when she should not. But at the same time, I just didn't feel the pull I was supposed to feel. Sure, there was perhaps an attraction to her true, but the tug she kept telling me about just didn't feel true. I feel like I could have enjoyed the story more if there had been a slow burn. And Leigh does a nice job of world building, though I'd like to see more of how Kaia's world came to being (what exactly led to the downfall of Earth as we known it).
Overall, I really enjoyed the story. The writing was good and I didn't find myself bored while reading it. I wanted to know what happened, what the mystery was and why. And, in the end, I really wanted to find out more and see the outcomes of Kaia's choices. I am looking forward to the next installment in this series.
Trisha
Leigh is a product of the Midwest, which means it’s pop, not soda, garage
sales, not tag sales, and you guys as opposed to y’all. Most of the time. She’s
been writing seriously for five years now, and has published 4 young adult
novels and 4 new adult novels (under her pen name Lyla Payne). Her favorite
things, in no particular order, include: reading, Game of Thrones, Hershey’s
kisses, reading, her dogs (Yoda and Jilly), summer, movies, reading, Jude
Law, coffee, and rewatching WB series from the 90’s-00’s.
Her
family is made up of farmers and/or almost rock stars from Iowa, people who
numerous, loud, full of love, and the kind of people that make the world
better. Trisha tries her best to honor them, and the lessons they’ve taught,
through characters and stories—made up, of course, but true enough in their
way.
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