Hourglass

Title: Hourglass

Author: Myra McEntire

Date of Publish: June 14, 2011

Type of Book: Time Travel & Ghosts

Age Rating: 13+

Review Copy From: Purchased from Amazon

About the Book:

About the Book:
One hour to rewrite the past . . . 

For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn’t there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents’ death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She’s tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.

So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson’s willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.
Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he’s around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?

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Biography

Myra McEntire lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and two sons. You can visit her online at www.MyraMcEntire.com

The cover of this book is so neat looking.  It is unlike anything I have ever seen.  I believe that the description gives a good idea of what the book is about. With maybe some things left out.  But, that doesn't take away from the book but adds to it. 

This book started out so well!  With witty banter and wonderful characters. 

Yet as it went on it just got boring. It lost my attention and didn't do anything to grab it back.  It just kept dragging on and on.  

I did finish the book and towards the end it started pulling me back in.

I was disappointed a little that the book just went on and on and on.  I don't like books that drag.  Authors/Editors could cut it down and take out some of the nonessential crap and make such a better book with fewer pages. 

I did enjoy the ending of the book.  I think it ended with a somewhat cliff hanger but not such a big one that you would be pulling your hair out until book 2 came out.  So thats very good. 

There are so many books out there about time travel.  I LOVE that in this book it takes more than one person to do it.  I have never liked that books like Tempest, and tv shows like the Time Travelers Wife.  Where they can travel alone without help.  It never set very right with me.  (I don't know why- Maybe I was a traveler in another life) 

This book again is about Time Travel but also toward the end it turns into a love trio.  I think that could have been skipped all together.  With the connection that Em and Michael have trying to add another person to that love is just plain stupid if you ask me.  I understand why it was added.  But it could have been ended before the next book.  It added an extra element that it just didn't need.  

Ok Characters!  I LOVE EM!  She is awesome!  She will kick your ass if you mess with her or her family! I love that.  You don't get a lot of female characters that know how to use what they have.  With Em its martial arts and yes she kicks some ass.  

Michael he is a great male lead.  I do think that he was kinda of stupid towards the end of the book.  But it all works out so thats fine.  But again it kind of adds an extra twist that the book just didn't need.  

So all in all I did like the book.  I think that this is one of those books that could go either way. 

 So Ill give it two rating. 

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