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 I've had my eye on this book for a long time, but there's always been some other book I've wanted to spend my money on. However, I saw this at the library the other day, so thought I'd pick it up. 
 Tempest is about Jackson, a boy who can jump through time. What starts out as something fun to experiment with soon turns dark when he ends up stuck in the past after his girlfriend got shot, and learning about enemies of time (EOTs for short). 
 Unfortunately, I have to admit that I found this book confusing at points. The rules of Jackson's time travelling are never expressly laid out (possibly because he didn't really know them at the beginning), and the half jumps and moving his home base and such just started to confuse me. There's also two different timelines involved in this novel, which I once again found confusing because not all of the details were worked out, and also because I often got muddled up between 007 Holly and 009 Holly, especially when he was with the former but thinking about the latter. 
 The world building was therefore a little clumsy. It started off mysterious, which was great, but you have to give information every so often to keep the reading hanging on and reading. I felt that the questions I had were never answered, and every knew piece of information given just raised new questions. I know that it's part of a series, so all should be revealed later on, but the vagueness of the time jumping and the CIA involvement just made the story frustrating, in a number of ways. 
 The pace was just not right, either. He spent a lot of time stuck in 2007, not really achieving much of anything. It just seemed like I was reading about a load of stuff that wasn't really relevant and didn't advance the plot too much. It dragged in the middle, and as a result this book took me a lot longer to read than it should've done, because I had no incentive to pick it up again once I put it down. 
 Jackson was a mostly bland character; I didn't feel connected or invested with him. And his relationship with Holly wasn't really sold to me either, because they were already together before the novel started; this meant that there was a lot of telling, not showing (i.e. we were often told what Holly was like, but I saw no evidence of this). There were some sweet scenes, but I felt it was a little weird that he got together with 007 Holly and used what he knew about 009 Holly to chat her up. It was all a little weird. 
 That said, there were some sweet scenes, and the book did pick up it's pace at the end. It was certainly interesting, I just felt that things weren't made clear enough in my mind. There were also quite a few editing errors; full stops in the middle of sentences and that sort of thing, which added to the problems I had with pacing made me feel the book was a bit sloppily done. With a bit of refinement, it could've been a very enjoyable read.