Eist is determined to defeat the Blight and get Yachrist back. She and her roommate Dille decide to take a journey into the past and recruit more for their fighting force with a partial idea of a plan.
I really loved the first couple of books in this serial. And then there came the Blight and it got away from that fun adventure vibe that I loved with its attention to how the dragons developed. Ever since the books became all about facing off with the Blight, I haven’t liked the books as much, especially the previous book that was mostly just non-stop battle scenes (boring!). It should be mentioned that though the first book started off at a Middle-Grade aimed audience (like the first of the Harry Potter books), this one is definitely for a more YA audience touching on drinking and sexual situations (though there’s no actual sex scene in this). The scene of Athar and Eist felt wildly out of character, for both of them. And I’m still annoyed that she doesn’t blame Athar at all for pulling her back in the previous book, again and for trying to keep controlling her into not diving headlong into situations on her own. I did like that she isn’t going to listen to the word of her ghostly parents and she’s still got hope and a determination to do what she feels is right. The title of this book is called Time Warp, so it shouldn’t come to anyone’s surprise that there is time travel involved. I loved that it was non-linear. So many times I’ve seen indie books where the characters travel in time sequentially, visiting people in the past in the order from when they last left (like in Outlander and Somewhere in Time). I love the stories where it’s out of order which sounds more true to time travel, since in theory you really could go back however far you want at that particular moment. But because of that it did make things a whole lot more complicated and confused, with the characters being confused themselves. This ends on an abrupt cliffhanger leading to the next book.