Blog Tour Review: Return Once More by Trisha Leigh
Return Once More by Trisha Leigh Series: The Historians #1
Published by Bloomsbury Spark on October 20th 2015
Genres: Young Adult Time Travel
Pages: 289
Format: Kindle Edition
Source: Author, Blog Tour
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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.
Return Once More had caught me by surprised. A story about Kaia, a Historian in training who on her 17th birthday discovers the identity of her True Companion and the lengths she goes in order to spend what little time she has with him. Meanwhile, trying to unfold a huge mystery that is being kept secret back in her own home that can change an outcome of their entire society.
Wow, this book truly blew me away. It was amazing, it was well crafted, with likable characters, and a wonderful world building. It was new, it was refreshing and it left me wanting more. Once I started this, I had the hardest time of putting it down, it was nearly impossible. Everything flowed so well, I didn’t even find one dull moment as I eagerly flipped through my kindle pages. Everything felt like it had an outcome which only pushed me to go on, to continue reading. Kaia as a character grew on me. Her story felt emotionally charged. She had so much going on, not only in training and her struggles there, but knowing that her True Companion had died a long time ago, and the whole mess with her brother.
It is also a love story with a love that transcends time. Yes, there is a sort of instance love, but the author kind of prepares you for it and it needed to be done for the sake of the story. It’s a bit more complicated than a simple case of annoying instant-love. I did NOT find it annoying. It was handled delicately and I found it so well done, I do applaud the author. Because it’s not simple and it left my head reeling by the end of the book.
The writing is absolutely beautiful and descriptive in a way that pulls you in and refuses to let you know. The author is immensely talented and it shows through the crafted word. The mystery, the excitement, the well fleshed out characters that jump out from the pages, Return Once More is well worth the read - especially for the lovers of Time Travel books. The plot was exciting, fast paced and packed full of twist and turns that will keep you wondering and going. I myself cannot wait for the next book in this wonderful series. The writing alone is worth it!
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