Book Review: Timekeeper by Alexandra Monir

Title: Timekeeper

Series: Timeless #2

Author: Alexandra Monir

Publisher: Delacorte Press for Young Readers

Published on: January 8, 2013

Source: own copy

When Philip Walker appears as a new student in Michele Windsor's high school class, she is floored. He is the love she thought she lost forever when they said goodbye during her time travels last century. Overjoyed that they can resume the relationship they had a lifetime ago, Michele eagerly approaches him and discovers the unthinkable: he doesn't remember her. In fact, he doesn't seem to remember anything about the Philip Walker of 1910.
Michele then finds her father's journals, which tell stories of his time-traveling past. As she digs deeper, she learns about his entanglement with a mysterious and powerful organization called the Time Society and his dealings with a vengeful Windsor ancestor. Michele soon finds herself at the center of a rift over 120 years in the making, one whose resolution will have life-or-death consequences.
Alexandra Monir's Timekeeper combines breathtaking romance with a tale of complex magic in a sequel that will have every reader believing in the transcendent power of love.

My Thoughts:

I love time travelling books! I learn so much about history without it being class-type boring,hehe.

Timekeeper is the sequel to Alexaandra Monir's Timeless. While Timeless was mor of Michele's love story with Phillip, Timekeeper delved deeper into the time travelling business. Finally, questions that lingered in our heads in the first book is answered here. We read about Michele's dad, Irving Henry. Then we'll know the mystery behind this new Phillip, and why he doesn't remember anything. Then we'll read about why Michele is being haunted by Her ancestor Rebecca Windsor. It all convolutes into this novel, that is Timekeeper.

I liked the story but I also find it too clich'ed and everything, Every hurdle they encounter is sad but you also know immediately that there's an immediate solution in sight. And the lack of the mysterious way to solve things is not so appealing to me. I love reading about books so heavily thought about as to how the protagonist can save the day, and things are so impossible but with ways I did not even imagine, there was a solution. And with Timekeeper, I missed that feeling of helplessness, and when the happy ending comes there's no overjoyed feeling because I already expected that they'll have a happy ending, sort of saying "of course they'll have a happy ending! Duh."

But I appreciated the way Alexandra Monir described 1888, 1904, 1910, 1934, and the 1990s, it was as if I was transported back in time. The old New York city was just as appealing to me as the current one is. I just loved imagining being in another time.

Overall, I recommend this book if you absolutely love time travel books with a semi-light plot. :)