Need a good read for the weekend? I highly recommend CLOCKWISE by Elle Strauss.
I read this book a couple months ago and I adored it. The main character, Casey, is very likeable. Her time-traveling adventures are exciting, Nate is swoonworthy, and I laughed out loud a few times at the best friend, Lucinda.
Here's a teaser from the opening of the story...
CHAPTER ONE
EVERYONE HAS TO LIVE with something.
For instance, my hair is the unmanageable kind of curly, the color of burnt toast. Imagine waking up every morning looking like the Lion King, or having to spend a disproportionate amount of your allowance on hair products that don’t deliver. Like the ones under my bathroom sink. Row after row of half-empty containers of mousse, gel, and hair tamer standing dejectedly like the third string of a basketball team that rarely gets to play.
The thing is, I would be fine with rag mop hair, truly, if only I didn’t have this other issue: uncontrolled time travel to the nineteenth century. I’ve never met anyone else with the same problem, either, so that also classifies me as some kind of freak.
On the upside—like a blind girl who ultra develops her other senses to compensate for what she can't control—I’ve picked up a few extra skills along the way. One survival reflex I’ve nurtured is how to be quick on my feet. I have good impulses, you could say.
Well, normally, this is an upside.
Until a second ago.
Want to know more? Here's a summary of the story...
Casey Donovan has issues: hair, height and uncontrollable trips to the 19th century! And now this --she’s accidentally taken Nate Mackenzie, the cutest boy in the school, back in time. Awkward.
Protocol pressures her to tell their 1860 hosts that he is her brother and when Casey finds she has a handsome, wealthy (and unwanted) suitor, something changes in Nate. Are those romantic sparks or is it just “brotherly” protectiveness?
When they return to the present, things go back to the way they were before: Casey parked on the bottom of the rung of the social ladder and Nate perched high on the very the top. Except this time her heart is broken. Plus, her best friend is mad, her parents are split up, and her younger brother gets escorted home by the police. The only thing that could make life worse is if, by some strange twist of fate, she took Nate back to the past again.
Which of course, she does.
Right now it's a steal at $2.99 on the Kindle, so go buy it and do a little time traveling this weekend!
Who wouldn't want to have an adventure back in time with the cutest boy? Sounds like a fun novel!
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend, Karen!
I'm reading this book for a Clockwise blog tour and I'm loving it so far. Casey reminds me of myself at that age. (And I really like the new cover!)
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