Marking Time -

April White

Corazon Entertainment

2012

445 páginas

14h 50m

ISBN-13: 9780988536814

Seventeen-year-old tagger Saira Elian can handle anything... a mother who mysteriously disappears, a stranger who stalks her around London, and even the noble English Grandmother who kicked Saira and her mother out of the family. But when an old graffiti tag in a tube station transports Saira to the 19th Century and she comes face-to-face with Jack the Ripper, she realizes she needs help after all.

Saira meets Archer, a charming student who helps her blend in as much as a tall, modern American teen can in Victorian England. He reveals the existence of the Immortals: Time, Nature, Fate, War and Death, and explains to Saira that it is possible to move between
centuries – if you are a Descendant of Time.

Saira finds unexpected friendships at a boarding school for Immortal Descendants and a complicated love with a young man from the past. But time is running out for her mother, and Saira must embrace her new identity as she hides from Archer a devastating secret about his future that may cost him his life.

Resenhas (2)

“Falling for a Clocker from the future shattered my careful peace and left me vulnerable to things I’d never imagined.”

Quem diria que um young adult de 2012 seria simplesmente viciante? Com a escrita completamente impecável e fluida, não espere grandes coisas e poesias de amor; é o que promete, o básico que funciona e para a época em que foi escrito, deixa muitos atuais do gênero no chinelo.

Como não se apaixonar por Archer e Saira? Eles reescrevem da forma mais adorável, profunda e significativa, o amor eterno entre um vampiro e uma híbrida capaz de viajar no tempo. Marking Time é uma pérola dos anos 2010 que ambienta de maneira impecável e prende do começo ao fim.