PASSENGER By Alexandra Bracken

Dani Young 

I received this book for free from Reviewer Purchase in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

PASSENGER By Alexandra BrackenPassenger by Alexandra Bracken
Series: Passenger #1
Published by Disney Hyperion on 1/5/16
Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Historical, Young Adult
Pages: 497
Format: Ebook
Source: Reviewer Purchase
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two-half-stars

Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her future, but a tragedy has put her once-bright career at risk. Closely tied to her musical skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has. When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is drawn back hundreds of years through time.
Etta wakes, confused and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a fierce sea battle. Nicholas Carter, the handsome young prize master of a privateering ship, has been hired to retrieve Etta and deliver her unharmed to the Ironwoods, a powerful family in the Colonies--the very same one that orchestrated her jump back, and one Nicholas himself has ties to. But discovering she can time travel is nothing compared to the shock of discovering the true reason the Ironwoods have ensnared her in their web.
Another traveler has stolen an object of untold value from them, and, if Etta can find it, they will return her to her own time. Out of options, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the mysterious traveler. But as they draw closer to each other and the end of their search, the true nature of the object, and the dangerous game the Ironwoods are playing, comes to light--threatening to separate her not only from Nicholas, but her path home... forever.

Short and Sweet Review

Etta is a violin prodigy and a time traveler she just doesn’t know the latter yet. After a stressful performance Etta’s skill of time traveling comes to play and she ends up going back in time to the year 1776, which is where she meets Nicholas a privateer who’s job is to bring her to the Ironwoods. The Ironwoods are a powerful family and another traveler stole an important item from them and they expect Etta to find it and bring it back. So Etta has to travel with Nicholas to different time periods and continents to find this item and keep her mother safe.

This is one of the most boring books I think I’ve read in a long time. It’s around 500 pages and it should have been around 300. Bracken drags out small details and it really doesn’t add much to the book except for length. I didn’t connect with either our main character Etta, she comes across as having to be perfect all the time. The romance between Etta and Nicholas wasn’t anything special, I think it was a relationship of circumstance they’re together so they like each other. The time traveling was interesting you had to use music notes in a certain way to be able to do it.

Overall, I didn’t like this book, it was hard for me to be interested in a book where I feel like things weren’t really happening. I’m dreading that I have to read the second book. I wouldn’t recommend this book as I think there are better books about time traveling that aren’t as boring as this one.

two-half-stars

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