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Time Keepers
In the not-so-distant future, Supernaturals have announced their presence to the world. But now a secret government agency is rounding them up, hoping to use them for its own purposes.
With Supernaturals going missing every day, Nick has been careful to guard his own secret, never giving anyone reason to notice him. That is until Ellie comes careering into his life.
Instantly drawn to her, he tries to help. But soon both their secrets are revealed and they find themselves on the run in a desperate bid to escape from the mysterious Time Keepers, whose net is closing in around them.
With Supernaturals going missing every day, Nick has been careful to guard his own secret, never giving anyone reason to notice him. That is until Ellie comes careering into his life.
Instantly drawn to her, he tries to help. But soon both their secrets are revealed and they find themselves on the run in a desperate bid to escape from the mysterious Time Keepers, whose net is closing in around them.
164 pages, Paperback
First published July 7, 2012
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About the author
Nicki J. Markus
55 books298 followersNicki J. Markus / Asta Idonea was born in England but now lives in Adelaide, South Australia. She has loved both reading and writing from a young age and is also a keen linguist, having studied several foreign languages.
She launched her writing career in 2011 and divides her efforts not only between MM and mainstream works but also between traditional and indie publishing. Her works span the genres, from paranormal to historical and from contemporary to fantasy. It just depends what story and which characters spring into her mind!
As a day job, she works part time as an administrator and part time as a freelance editor and proofreader, and in whatever spare time she can find she enjoys music, theater, cinema, photography, and sketching. She also loves history, folklore and mythology, pen-palling, and travel, all of which have provided plenty of inspiration for her writing.
She launched her writing career in 2011 and divides her efforts not only between MM and mainstream works but also between traditional and indie publishing. Her works span the genres, from paranormal to historical and from contemporary to fantasy. It just depends what story and which characters spring into her mind!
As a day job, she works part time as an administrator and part time as a freelance editor and proofreader, and in whatever spare time she can find she enjoys music, theater, cinema, photography, and sketching. She also loves history, folklore and mythology, pen-palling, and travel, all of which have provided plenty of inspiration for her writing.
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August 8, 2013
Oh my God this book looks hot! Really wanna win it.
July 25, 2012
The setting is London, and the year is 2025. This futuristic novel combines the urban fantasy and dystopia genres to provide an entertaining story full of action and intrigue.
Nick seems quite ordinary in the first chapters, and is immediately drawn to a girl causing a scene at a train station in London. The petite yet feisty girl is running toward the train Nick has boarded to escape the police, and his curiosity leads him to extend an invite back to his place for a few hours of safety from the situation she's outrunning. Nick gives this offer thinking they will only be spending a few hours together, but they soon realize that they're allies in this world.
As I mentioned earlier, this is a dystopia. The government has way too much control over its citizens, and even a minor offense can land you in jail for a week's time. The biggest challenge Nick and Ellie face is that the government is rounding up supernatural creatures, and nobody suspected of living a paranormal life is safe. The main goal of this capture of supernaturals is to eradicate them entirely, and this mission does not bode well for our main characters.
While this is an enjoyable, action-filled mixture of genres, it's also a romance. Realizing that they both have a dangerous secret, Nick and Ellie become more drawn to one another and more enveloped in each other's lives as the action progresses. Ellie is a time keeper, which means that she has the ability to temporarily travel through time. The travel itself is only temporary because she is pulled back to her regular time, and has no way to stop this. In interviews with Nicki J Markus, she mentions that in writing this novel she was inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife, and this is one of those aspects where it's easy to spot that influence. The time travel in Time Keepers is done differently despite the similarity of not being able to control when Ellie can travel back to her original time. As a side note, I don't read a lot of time travel novels, so maybe that's a common theme in more than just these two books.
Nick is a werewolf, and this is a problem mainly when it gets difficult to hide his transformation from passers-by. I liked this aspect of the story, that both Nick and Ellie have an aspect of themselves that they cannot fully control. Plus, I think it's interesting to read about their adventures together in a world that is against them for what they are. Their story versus the dystopian government is intriguing, and I like the bits of romance and humor woven into the novel.
Nick seems quite ordinary in the first chapters, and is immediately drawn to a girl causing a scene at a train station in London. The petite yet feisty girl is running toward the train Nick has boarded to escape the police, and his curiosity leads him to extend an invite back to his place for a few hours of safety from the situation she's outrunning. Nick gives this offer thinking they will only be spending a few hours together, but they soon realize that they're allies in this world.
As I mentioned earlier, this is a dystopia. The government has way too much control over its citizens, and even a minor offense can land you in jail for a week's time. The biggest challenge Nick and Ellie face is that the government is rounding up supernatural creatures, and nobody suspected of living a paranormal life is safe. The main goal of this capture of supernaturals is to eradicate them entirely, and this mission does not bode well for our main characters.
While this is an enjoyable, action-filled mixture of genres, it's also a romance. Realizing that they both have a dangerous secret, Nick and Ellie become more drawn to one another and more enveloped in each other's lives as the action progresses. Ellie is a time keeper, which means that she has the ability to temporarily travel through time. The travel itself is only temporary because she is pulled back to her regular time, and has no way to stop this. In interviews with Nicki J Markus, she mentions that in writing this novel she was inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife, and this is one of those aspects where it's easy to spot that influence. The time travel in Time Keepers is done differently despite the similarity of not being able to control when Ellie can travel back to her original time. As a side note, I don't read a lot of time travel novels, so maybe that's a common theme in more than just these two books.
Nick is a werewolf, and this is a problem mainly when it gets difficult to hide his transformation from passers-by. I liked this aspect of the story, that both Nick and Ellie have an aspect of themselves that they cannot fully control. Plus, I think it's interesting to read about their adventures together in a world that is against them for what they are. Their story versus the dystopian government is intriguing, and I like the bits of romance and humor woven into the novel.
November 26, 2014
This was a very positive surprise!!
I entered the giveaway for his one, I didn't won it but my interest in the book remained the same. Then I found a hard copy with a fairly cheap price and I bought it.
the book is set in London in 2025. A couple of years before the Government decide to go public with the news that there was people with supernatural characteristics and it began to round them up and study/disposed of them. The main figures in this novel are a werewolf and a time traveller. I guess it was this mix of werecreatures and time-travelling that did it for me ^__^.
Nick's the werewolf. He appears to be a NEET, looking for his father because he disappear some years before. Ellie is the time traveler, who's on the run because the Governor is looking expressly for her. She's not the best time traveller in the world and it seems that the Governor's interest in her depends solely and his physical attraction for the girl. OK, he also wants to create a but I'm pretty sure that his attraction is stronger than his political motives.
Nick's
The story is pretty good. I like the way it was built and I really like Nick as a character. He's not a hero but he tries everything in order to save Ellie. Yeah, sometimes the plot seems a bit rushed and it's not entirely believable how Ellie but in the end it was a really pleasant book.
I entered the giveaway for his one, I didn't won it but my interest in the book remained the same. Then I found a hard copy with a fairly cheap price and I bought it.
the book is set in London in 2025. A couple of years before the Government decide to go public with the news that there was people with supernatural characteristics and it began to round them up and study/disposed of them. The main figures in this novel are a werewolf and a time traveller. I guess it was this mix of werecreatures and time-travelling that did it for me ^__^.
Nick's the werewolf. He appears to be a NEET, looking for his father because he disappear some years before. Ellie is the time traveler, who's on the run because the Governor is looking expressly for her. She's not the best time traveller in the world and it seems that the Governor's interest in her depends solely and his physical attraction for the girl. OK, he also wants to create a but I'm pretty sure that his attraction is stronger than his political motives.
Nick's
The story is pretty good. I like the way it was built and I really like Nick as a character. He's not a hero but he tries everything in order to save Ellie. Yeah, sometimes the plot seems a bit rushed and it's not entirely believable how Ellie but in the end it was a really pleasant book.
June 29, 2016
This one was an interesting blend of cliches and then some very original directions or unravelling of the usual pattern. One of the good things was that unusually for a romance heavy story with supernaturals it was from the male perspective (mostly) and it was convincingly done, no poetic flights of teenage girl fancy. The romance element seemed to be based on tenacity and strength and intelligence (although it started as insta-love which I am never mad about).
The main villain was pretty stereotypical in a lot of ways, but I am not one for wanting to psychologise or relate to villains so I didn't care, at times I wondered if aspects of that were intentionally a bit humorous. I liked that the time-travel aspect was handled differently than for anything I had ever read before, the werewolf wasn't remotely macho (and therefore had to use his brain or die) and there was no deus ex machina, they had to work for their victory, they made one very stupid mistake but only the one. There are some disturbing scenes but overall it is pretty feelgood (in terms of the movement of the story).
I enjoyed reading it. I thought it was the right length and had the right amount of description (once again a rare thing to find in the YA supernatural with romance type books). Unlike the run of the mill, the heroine wasn't helpless, stupid or shallow and the hero didn't (and couldn't have) dominate(d) her. There was a triangle of sorts but understated and since it was from the male's perspective we didn't get all the TMI angst about that.
I was worried about reviewing this because (here comes the acknowledgement) I got the copy free from the author who is a nice person and I am a tough reviewer and do not wish to be otherwise. I was relieved as hell to enjoy it and think it offered much to the genre.
The main villain was pretty stereotypical in a lot of ways, but I am not one for wanting to psychologise or relate to villains so I didn't care, at times I wondered if aspects of that were intentionally a bit humorous. I liked that the time-travel aspect was handled differently than for anything I had ever read before, the werewolf wasn't remotely macho (and therefore had to use his brain or die) and there was no deus ex machina, they had to work for their victory, they made one very stupid mistake but only the one. There are some disturbing scenes but overall it is pretty feelgood (in terms of the movement of the story).
I enjoyed reading it. I thought it was the right length and had the right amount of description (once again a rare thing to find in the YA supernatural with romance type books). Unlike the run of the mill, the heroine wasn't helpless, stupid or shallow and the hero didn't (and couldn't have) dominate(d) her. There was a triangle of sorts but understated and since it was from the male's perspective we didn't get all the TMI angst about that.
I was worried about reviewing this because (here comes the acknowledgement) I got the copy free from the author who is a nice person and I am a tough reviewer and do not wish to be otherwise. I was relieved as hell to enjoy it and think it offered much to the genre.
January 9, 2014
Set in London in the year 2025, Time Keepers is a futuristic novel set in a world where the existence of supernatural beings is accepted - and feared. The Government, on the other hand, wants to gain control over these creatures, and so starts rounding them up and keeping them in labs, where experiments and brain-washing is the accepted norm.
Nick is a werewolf who believes he has successfully slipped beneath the radar of detection, whilst Ellie is a Time Keeper (time-traveller) on the run from the government. The abilities of a Time Keeper are regarded as the most valuable prize of them all. However, it is when fate colludes to bring Nick and Ellie together that the real adventure, intrigue and danger begins to unfold. Ellie just wants to the do the right thing, whilst Nick has to come to the realisation that there a lot more at stake than just saving his own skin.
Time Keepers is the "filled out" version of a series of four short stories published in 2011. Whilst characters, locations, and events have been developed in more detail, the premise remains much the same. A lot happens in this story, and it happens very rapidly, which makes this a quick and easy novel to read; although the ending is somewhat predictable, it is otherwise an enjoyable read.
3.5 stars.
Nick is a werewolf who believes he has successfully slipped beneath the radar of detection, whilst Ellie is a Time Keeper (time-traveller) on the run from the government. The abilities of a Time Keeper are regarded as the most valuable prize of them all. However, it is when fate colludes to bring Nick and Ellie together that the real adventure, intrigue and danger begins to unfold. Ellie just wants to the do the right thing, whilst Nick has to come to the realisation that there a lot more at stake than just saving his own skin.
Time Keepers is the "filled out" version of a series of four short stories published in 2011. Whilst characters, locations, and events have been developed in more detail, the premise remains much the same. A lot happens in this story, and it happens very rapidly, which makes this a quick and easy novel to read; although the ending is somewhat predictable, it is otherwise an enjoyable read.
3.5 stars.
July 22, 2012
Absolutely fantastic! This futuristic paranormal thriller was pumped so full of action, I’m still trying to catch my breath. In the future world where this story takes place, things don’t look so good for the supes (supernatural beings, i.e.: vamps, werewolves, time travelers, etc.) and the government is capturing them one by one to either experiment or exterminate them, the lucky ones surviving only by agreeing to abandon their lives and work for the very people that caught them. So when Ellie’s fate is thrown in the hands of a stranger named Nick, she has no other options but to trust him, all the while Nick is wondering why he’s getting involved in the first place since he’d so far successfully remained hidden under the radar of the evil governor. He quickly learns that she is a supe, like him, and then the whirlwind of their escape begins. There is very little romance, so the only reader this wouldn’t be for is someone wanting hot and steamy love scenes, but even so, I’m quite sure this story will still captivate you and take you on one heck of a ride. Amazing Job, Nicki! You really knocked this one out of the park!
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October 28, 2016
I liked this book it was pretty good. It moved really quickly which I like. I enjoyed the two man mail characters. Ellie..not so much. The book feels like it was set up to have a squeal if not an entire series. Overall it was an enjoyable easy read!
February 16, 2014
i haven't even read it yet it seem so amazing i really hope i get the chance to read this book.
May 3, 2014
This book was good for a light read, however I found myself wondering 'why doesn't she just do that' too much. The isn't much for character development either.
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