Ratings

Content Ratings based on a 0-5 scale where
0 = no objectionable content and
5 = an excessive or disturbing level of content

Guide to Rating System

LANGUAGE

VIOLENCE

SEXUAL CONTENT

ADULT THEMES

Ratings Explanation

Language:  The word sangre is used as an exclamation like swearing.  There are some references to people swearing like, “repeating every old swear word…”

Violence:  Echo remembers the deaths of his brother and a girl.  They were killed by a group of people.  Taylor is taken prisoner, beaten and tortured.  Sheridan is also captured and drugged.  A man admits to murdering another man.  Vikers attack the girls and chase them.  Echo kills a Viker.  Vikers are missing a hand because they cut it off in order to get rid of the tracking device.  Enforcers are shot behind the knees.  Enforcers attack a group of people and there is a fight.  Someone is shot and bleeding.

Sexual Content:  Women are forced to have a surgery to prevent them from becoming pregnant.  There are a few instances of kissing.

Adult Themes:  Government conspiracy, religious suppression.

Synopsis

Twin sisters Taylor and Sheridan are suddenly ripped from their time and sent 400 years  into the future where the government is hoping to find a famous scientist to help them build a new weapon that will equal mass destruction.  Everything in the future is different and Taylor and Sheridan know that if they don’t find a way out fast, they will be forced into compliance like everyone else there and they will  never be able to escape the government and the evil that surrounds them.  Their only hope lies with a guy with plenty of secrets of his own, but they must learn to trust each other in order to escape.

This was an exciting book of adventure and intrigue.  Time travel always makes for interesting subject matter.  I enjoyed the twin aspect in this book and also the funny misconceptions that the future world had about our time.  I enjoyed all the slang phrases the twins use to confuse the people around them like “burning the midnight oil, get your ducks in a row, kick the bucket, between a rock and a hard place, up a creek without a paddle, nip this in the bud…”  I was amazed at how many the author came up with.  We really do use a lot of weird phrases.  It added a fun element to the book.  This is a YA book and one I am happy to pass off to my teenagers to read.