Friday, January 22, 2021

Glitch


Regan and Elliot have been enemies since they started training to become Glitchers, so basically their entire lives.  Anyone with the time travel gene is automatically sent to train for a future in the past.  Once the world figured out time travel, everyone quickly realized the practice needed to be tightly regulated.  Now, most time travel missions are about stopping agents of Mayhem, a terrorist group who travels into the past to change history and destroy the natural timeline.  

Regan can't stand Elliot's condescending attitude.  So what if he's the best at everything, does he have to shove it in everyone's face all the time?  He can't pass up any opportunity to point out Regan's failures, and there are a lot of them.  Studying and understanding the past is vital for time travelers, but Regan's brain feels like Swiss cheese.  She struggles to focus on her reading, and the information never seems to stick.  

Elliot can't stand Princess Regan, daughter of the academy's first female commander.  Everyone gives her special treatment.  He plans to be the youngest student in the history of the academy to level up, and then he won't have to deal with her bratty face anymore.  

Everything changes when Regan receives a letter from her future self that seems to point to future danger.  This is bad enough on its own.  Regan has sworn she would never be like Mayhem, changing history for her own good, but Elliot finds the letter and keeps it from her because he's Elliot, and he likes to make her life miserable.

After he reads the letter, Elliot wishes he could go back in time and know nothing about it.  Now he's tied up with Regan in some kind of plot from her future self.  This could ruin his career and land him in jail for the rest of his life.  

When things start to heat up, Regan and Elliot will have to work together or risk losing more than just their careers as time travelers.  Their friends, family, and even the United States time travel program are about to go up in flames.

I really hope this is a start to a new series because this book is so fun and exciting.  Elliot may be a little too horrible in the beginning, and I wish Regan's dyslexia could just be treated as a difference rather than a detriment (I mean, they have time travel.  Why can't they figure out a way to help people with dyslexia?), but I think kids will love this fast-paced adventure through time! Highly recommended.


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