Thank you for the arc, unfortunately I did not finish it, I just wasn't the right audience for this book.

Lovely addicting read! The concept with the time travel glasses was very interessing to read. Only the different moods of Calla where a bit frustrating for me.

(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

Calla Winston’s mobile devices sit in a corner of her room, covered in dust. Weeks ago, she shared photos and laughs with her best online friend. Now, after having felt the sting of betrayal, she prefers being hidden and friendless. She equates privacy with security and technology with pain.
Then she meets Valcas, an otherworldly time traveler who traverses time and space with a pair of altered sunglasses. When an ethereal being knocks Calla to the ground near her family’s lakeside cottage, Valcas uses the Travel Glasses to help her escape. He offers his further protection in exchange for a promise. Intrigued by Valcas and the possibility of time travel, Calla accepts. That is until she learns that his search for her was no mere coincidence.
Calla sets off on her own, taking the Travel Glasses with her. Torn between searching for her estranged father and reuniting with the rest of her family, she tracks down the inventor of the Travel Glasses in hopes of discovering more about Valcas’ past and motivations. The Travel Glasses take Calla’s mistrust of technology to all new levels. But without them, she’ll never make it back home. With Valcas hot on her trail, Calla hopes to find what she’s looking for before he catches up.

This is the first book in The Call to Search Everywhen series. While it wasn't the strongest opening book, it certainly had enough to make me interested in what is to follow.

The pros: Actually, really there was only one real positive in this book for me and that centred around Calla. She wasn't the usual whiny, irritating character that we find in YA fiction these days. She showed some maturity in dealing with things. Also, even though she knew that Valcas as very interested in her, we didn't get the insta-love storyline either. I really did appreciate that. It would have been so easy to just let them become a couple and let romance/sex have its way with the story...

The downsides, though, were just as important. Firstly, and most importantly for me, the motivations of characters. Calla had a point in her past when her trust in people was devastated. She withdrew from her friends and shut herself off. Then, as the story unfolds, she seems to trust every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes along. That was just so unbelievable for me, it certainly affected my overall feeling for the book.

Add to that, the concepts that the author comes up with are interesting...but there just doesn't seem to be enough information about them...and just far too many of them. I think if the author had focussed on one of these ideas - the memory one, for example - and really fleshed it out, this would have had the potential to be a far better story for me.


Paul
ARH