This was an interesting read. In the fifth installment which can be read as a standalone, we meet Ariel. She thinks seeing the future is annoying and tries her best to block it out. Then she meets two sets of groups that in the end want something from her. She's caught in the middle trying to decide what to do.

I enjoyed the flow of the story and look forward to reading more from this author.

I found this to be slow at the beginning, but gradually improved the further you went into the book.

The characters had great depth with varied personalities.

Overall an enjoyable story, just shame the start was slow.

I loved them premise of this book - but I must say that books told from multiple and third person points of view need to be very well structured …………. this was not , but I persevered .

Ariel's ability to see parts of the future have always proved a problem - she knows she must align herself with one of two other groups with similar abilities - to save the world .
BUT who to choose - that is the question - they both want her , not necessarily for the greater good .

This book could have been a much better read with tighter plot lines and greater character development .

I was given an ARC of this book by Netgalley and the Publisher in exchange for an honest review

Thank you netgalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This was a difficult novel to get into. It's told in several points of views and mostly shifts to third person. Ariel is a young woman who has the ability to see increments of the future. Shes always known that she will play a part in saving the world but can't see exactly how. We don't get an opportunity to really get to know the other characters as their parts are short spurts of dialogue and moments. The plot is fague and the story progresses rather slowly. Unfortunately i did not enjoy this novel.

Flickers of Fortune. What would you do if you had the ability to see the future? Would you use your ability to become rich and famous? That is the question that I would pose to my students. This book would be a great way to begin the open-ended response with several variations. I would recommend students read this book and/or I could see using portions to begin a question/answer series.

I sadly could'nt get past the 25% mark, sadly.
This book wasn't for me. I didn't find the book or it's characters interesting enough to manage to continue..
It was also may characters here and there and i didn't get to get a real connecting to them, since we jumped so much back and forth.

First of all, when I started reading this book, I wasn't aware it was 5th in the series. When I realized there was a series, I checked out other books and realized that they were all about different characters and it didn't matter if I hadn't read them.

So even though it is 5th in the series, I have read it as a stand alone. I don't read sci-fi much, so this was a pretty new and interesting for me.

The beginning sucked me in. It started with a lot of mystery and intrigue. The prose was written in such a way, that it gave this book a feeling of suspense and thrill. The writing from a various different point of view, the different characters coming together in different settings and forming various types of relationships.... it was wonderfully penned down.

The part where there was hitch, was that the entire book was written in similar way. After a while, I kind of started getting impatient. At the beginning, you need mystery and suspense to pull the readers in. In the middle, readers expect action to the said mystery. That was where it was lacking to certain degree.

The other part that bothered me, was Ariel herself. She had a very interesting ability, which had a huge potential. But, she was entirely passive. There is not a single place where she is the one who made decisions or took any action of her own. She is the main character, but except for giving her a lot of narrative prose, it didn't come as such. Everyone else, pushed and pulled her, and she allows them to.

I would expect a girl who can see probability of future to be more proactive. And smart. There were a lot of places, where she did something stupid, even when she had probable knowledge of things going wrong. She ignored her gift, and at some places deliberately put herself in danger. That kind of people pisses me off.

Overall, the book is well written. And even though, at some places, it feels slow, it manages to keep the readers hooked in.