goodreads | Tempest - Julia Cross

Title: Tempest
Author: Julie Cross
Genre: Sci-fi
Rating: 3/5
# pages: Audiobook ~10hrs
Date read: February, 2018

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.

Usually I'm a fan of anything involving time-travel, so after reading the blurb, I was really eager to read this book. Unfortunately it couldn't quite live up to my expectations as the "rules" around the time-travel got really confusing with all the exceptions and variations and what not, and I didn't really warm up to the story until rather late in the book.

I did enjoy the half-jumps Jackson took back to his past once he figured out what he was doing though - especially those where he got to see his sister, and warmed up to 2009 Jackson as well, once things started clearing up and coming to a climax. So at the end, I did like the book, but found it nicely contained, so I have no need to read the rest of the series.