2 stars! **
Author: Megan Crewe
Title: Earth & Sky (Earth & Sky, #1)
Seventeen-year-old Skylar has been haunted for as long as she can remember by fleeting yet powerful sensations that something is horribly wrong. But despite the panic attacks tormenting her, nothing ever happens, and Sky’s beginning to think she’s crazy. Then she meets a mysterious, otherworldly boy named Win and discovers the shocking truth her premonitions have tapped into: our world no longer belongs to us. For thousands of years, Earth has been at the mercy of alien scientists who care nothing for its inhabitants and are using us as the unwitting subjects of their time-manipulating experiments. Win belongs to a rebel faction seeking to put a stop to it, and he needs Skylar’s help--but with each shift in the past, the very fabric of reality is unraveling, and soon there may be no Earth left to save.
I like the general idea of the book but the way it was written was lacking. It was boring most of the time and confusing the other (that might be the result of me skipping some parts, because it was just that boring).
Skylar is a seventeen year old student (mentally she's more like thirteen) and she suffers from panic attacks. She senses that something is wrong, out of order, unnatural and it causes her to start freaking out. She always calms herself down by playing with her bead bracelet she received from her brother who's been missing for twelve years. And she counts. All the time. On almost every page. Yeah, that's how often she freaks out.
Win (as in Darwin) is an.. wait for it.. alien. He comes from far away planet, that was destroyed thousands of years ago and his kind have to live on a huge spaceship. Oh, and they can time travel. But only to the past. Not to the future. Nope, that would be too convinient. The majority of aliens wants to continue living on earth, travel how often they want to but the jumps back and forth are destroying Earth.
A small part of them don't agree with it, including Win, wants it to stop. But for that they need a weapon that was hidden by their leader in past. In several different parts of the history.
This is where Skylar comes in. She can sense where there is something changed by the aliens. That's the wrongness she feels. Sky and Win travel together through the time and continue colecting parts of the weapon.
What intrigued me about the book was the idea of time traveling but all the aspects of it just left me confused and disoriented. Like I said it might be the result of me not reading every word on every page. Or me being stupid. Or maybeeee it is the result of having way too many things put together, of way too many rules concerning the whole time traveling thing.
Normally a book this long takes me half the time I needed to read this one. I just didn't connect with it, didn't felt blown away, I wasn't sucked into the story. There wasn't any big epic moment when I thought FINALLY!.
But I'm not giving up just yet. Maybe in the next book I fill find all the things this one was missing.
*ARC courtesy of publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*
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