Passenger by Alexandra BrackenPublisher: Disney Hyperion
Release Date: 5 January 2016
Pages: 496
Summary: Passenger follows a violin prodigy, Etta Spencer. One night she loses everything she loves and is thrust into an unfamiliar world. Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles, but years from home. And she's inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she's never heard of. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful family in the Colonies-and the servitude he's known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can't escape and the family that won't let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, his passenger, can find. In order to protect her, Nick must ensure she brings it back to them-whether she wants to or not. Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods' grasp. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home forever.
My Thoughts: I loved this book so much! Passenger is the first book I've read by Alex Bracken and I really enjoyed her writing. At the start of this book I found it quite slow to pick up the pace, but that said, it was still really interesting.
Etta is a great female character! She's really independent and strong and I loved that Alex Bracken gave her a unique hobby in playing the violin because that gave her strength throughout the book. I also really liked Nicholas, his perspective was always really well done and very different from Etta's.
The plot was brilliant and I've never read a book with time travel in it before. The "magic" system, if that's what you call it, was quite complicated and at the start I didn't really get how they were able to travel through time but as the book progressed I got a much better understanding of it.
Overall, I highly recommend this book to you guys. It's very different and an intriguing topic and it was written very well. I'm so excited for the next one to come out, Wayfarer!!
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