(The Historians #1)
by Trisha Leigh
by Trisha Leigh
If you could learn the identity of your one true love—even though you will never meet— would you?
Years have passed since refugees from a ruined earth took to space, eventually settling a new system of planets. Science has not only made the leaps necessary to allow time travel, but the process engineered a strange side effect—predicting your one true love.
If you could save your one true love from an untimely death, would you be able to resist?
Sixteen-year-old Kaia Vespasian is an apprentice to the Historians—a group charged with using time travel to document the triumphs and failures of the past—and she can’t resist a peek at her long-dead soul mate in Ancient Egypt. Before she knows it, she’s broken every rule in the book, and the consequences of getting caught could destroy more than just her new romance.
Or would you have the strength to watch him die?
But when Kaia notices a fellow classmate snooping around in a time where he doesn’t belong, she suspects he has a secret of his own—and the conspiracy she uncovers could threaten the entire universe. If her experience has taught her anything, to changing history means facing the consequences. The Historians trained her to observe and record the past, but Kaia never guessed she might have to protect it— in a race across time to save her only chance at a future.
(The Historians #2)
by Trisha Leigh
by Trisha Leigh
After everything that happened last semester and so many of the people she loves depending on her, Kaia Vespasian knows the best thing to do is keep her mouth shut, her butt in her chair, and her head down. In a few months she’ll be a certified Historian, and with the position could come some leverage.
When the Elders announce that inconsistencies have been found in the holofiles—people disappearing and possibly reappearing, as well—Kaia worries that her meddling has made a mess of things in the past…and the present.
With her roommate Sarah still angry over the imagined betrayal of Kaia with her boyfriend, Oz, her options for cohorts are limited. She and Oz decide to team up to try to figure out what’s going on in the past, and whether the sneaky Elders and their Return Project have anything to do with it.
Kaia’s focused on the lives of her parents, her brother, and her best friend, but what if the lives of everyone in Genesis are on the line? First, she’ll have to figure out how to set the timeline right. If she can do that, Kaia will face an even harder task—putting the greater good above the lives of the people she loves.
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I am a sucker when it comes to books about time travel and history (and the multiverse). I love how humans are so fascinated with going back to the past and changing what happened either for the good or bad, add to that a heroine who likes to question fate (I think that is a common plot in most Dystopian YA's), and a cute serious boy. Trisha Leigh has got the formula right.
The year is 2560 and our main protagonist, Kaia Vespasian, is an apprentice Historian for humans who now live in Genesis - the solar system adopted by humans when Earth proved to be inhabitable. The Historians are tasked to research, record, and reflect human history to understand what exactly happened in history and it's consequences. And in this advanced human time, when a person turns 17 they get to find out who their True Companion is - a scientific calculation based on genetics gives every person the name of their one true love, the person they are most compatible with throughout all of time. When Kaia turns 17 she finds out that her True Companion is from Ancient Egypt, Ceasareon, the Son of Julius Ceasar and Cleopatra. Kaia sets out to save her True Companion from an early death, and discovers something sinister going on in the Historical Academy along the way.
I have had my fair share of Dystopian YA books and let me tell you this is a breath of fresh air. I loved Kaia, she's not the typical whiny heroine. She has the right amount of stubbornness and a lot of room for improvement that she actually took. Her character development was well paced right along with development of the story. The love story had a twist that I did not expect, well maybe I did. I already had this foreshadowing of Kaia's love interest but didn't bother much with it because it wasn't too obvious a first, but the love angle did have a lot of tension and Kaia wasn't totally moony over it (just a tad). The time travelling - that was definitely the star of the show. I felt I was transported right along with the characters to observe what went down in history that made huge changes to humanities story. Good thing too that I already had these 2 books because book 1 had a cliffhanger.
This was a well written book that had suspense in the right places that makes you want for more. This a well worth read for any lover of Time Travel, Sci-fi, Fantasy, and of course YA.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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