She was well brought up in a good family. I thought that it would perhaps have been better if Jack had not told Alexandra that almost none survived, because although it would have made her feel guilty, it would have reinforced that point that we could not change the future – after all, Alexandra tried and ended up doing exactly what her dreams foretold. The plot twist - that Alexandra shot him was so unexpected I knew myself to be gaping at the book.

Everyone knows how it feels to be disbelieved in even when you know with absolute certainty that you are correct – especially when it has already been proven that you are accurate – it is the most frustrating feeling in the world. Another thing that really hit home was how nobody believed Alexandra when she said that she could prophet people’s deaths. His book was targeted for teens, and I’m sure anyone who’d read it that was a teen would agree with me when I say that I was right there beside her when she was being dealt the injustices by her father.

Alexandra’s character is developed really well, and the link with Cassandra was pure genius. I loved how none of his chapters were more than two or three pages long, how some were blank, and how some had only two or three sentences. You never once encounter boring old statistics like how many men died, or the amount of war won or anything like that, but instead read of how people had to create their own weapons, how they had ambulance trains with nurses aboard to tend the sick whilst their wounds were not yet infected. This book, however, gives you details of WW1, yes, but does so in a way that it feels natural (- like, for those who have read it, ). I have read other, similar books (which shall not be named) that are basically non-fiction, for all you read about the actual characters. It depicts the life of a girl in WW1, but doesn’t go overboard with the details about the war. You’re reading my review now to see what I thought of the story, how I felt when I was reading, and how I felt after I read it.įirst off, this was one bloody good book. But you’re not reading my review to read the summary of the story – doubtless, you will see dozens of other summaries should you continue to read on, or you could just read the official summary at the top and be done with it. That’s my summary, and, as far as summaries go, I will admit that this is pathetic. This was the amazing story of a young girl racing against the clock to save her brother, and, in that process, piece her broken family back together again.

The foreshadowing by marcus sedgwick