Review: All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

Publication Date: August 1st 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens
Pages: 362 
Series: All Our Yesterdays #1

Source: Purchased

Rating:
 ★★★★

A brilliantly brain-warping thriller and a love story that leaps back and forth in time - All Our Yesterdays is an amazing first novel, perfect for fans of The Hunger Games.

Em is locked in a bare, cold cell with no comforts. Finn is in the cell next door. The Doctor is keeping them there until they tell him what he wants to know. Trouble is, what he wants to know hasn't happened yet.

Em and Finn have a shared past, but no future unless they can find a way out. The present is torture - being kept apart, overhearing each other's anguish as the Doctor relentlessly seeks answers. There's no way back from here, to what they used to be, the world they used to know. Then Em finds a note in her cell which changes everything. It's from her future self and contains some simple but very clear instructions. Em must travel back in time to avert a tragedy that's about to unfold. Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future.

Review: Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier

Publication Date: Oct. 8th 2013
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co
Pages: 464
Series: Ruby Red Trilogy #3

Source: Purchased

Rating:
 ★★★★

Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is.
She’s only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she’s just learned that her charming time-traveling partner, Gideon, has probably been using her all along.
This stunning conclusion picks up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.

Review: Wildwing by Emily Whitman

Publication Date:  September 21st 2010
Publisher: Greenwillow Books 
Pages: 359

Source: Purchased

Rating:
 ★★★★
 

When Addy is swept back in time, she couldn't be happier to leave her miserable life behind. Now she's mistaken for Lady Matilda, the pampered ward of the king. If Addy can play her part, she'll have glorious gowns, jewels, and something she's always longed for the respect and admiration of others. But then she meets Will, the falconer's son with sky blue eyes, who unsettles all her plans.

From shipwrecks to castle dungeons, from betrothals to hidden conspiracies, Addy finds herself in a world where she's not the only one with a dangerous secret. When she discovers the truth, Addy must take matters into her own hands. The stakes? Her chance at true love . . . and the life she's meant to live.

Historical fiction + time travel = my siren's song >.<
I don't really know why those kind of stories intrigued me but it did. I love the old English language that was being used, it sounded so charming in some ways. Whitman is so good at writing because she brought the world alive. I felt like I was living in that world. I could see it, the castle, the field and smell the air. It's just a wonderful experience.

I loved Addy. She is young but she is really thoughtful. Oh my I didn't know who the falconer's son was at first and I was so sad that they wouldn't end up together if Addy decided to go back. However as the story went on and Will said that he came from a box, I was squealing and did my happy dancing. A happy ending it is =) Yet the story is really predictable how it would end but I am sure you will have an amazing time reading it.

Overall this book had a great message like money cannot bring you happiness. So if you are in the mood for time travel then give this a shot ;)

Review: My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris

Release Date: September 11th 2012
Publisher: Entangled Publishing 
Pages:   304
Source: Purchased 
Series: My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century #1
Rating: ★★★★★

On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing lone wolf Cat Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown by her bubbly stepmother-to-be and well-meaning father. So even though Cat knows the family’s trip to Florence, Italy, is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all it offers. But when her curiosity leads her to an unusual gypsy tent, she exits . . . right into Renaissance Firenze.

Thrust into the sixteenth century armed with only a backpack full of contraband future items, Cat joins up with her ancestors, the sweet Alessandra and protective Cipriano, and soon falls for the gorgeous aspiring artist Lorenzo. But when the much-older Niccolo starts sniffing around, Cat realizes that an unwanted birthday party is nothing compared to an unwanted suitor full of creeptastic amore.

Can she find her way back to modern times before her Italian adventure turns into an Italian forever?