Book 2, Review 1 (from way back then)

Upon losing my original book 2, Anthem(a story of individuality in a dystopian future) I've landed on a book called Tempest, which promises to be a cool time-travel-action-romance, sounds like a mash-up of The Time Traveler's Wife and Jumper. I also see there's family tension, the main character has probably lost people near and dear to him. Hopefully I haven't made a misstep as I start this new book. It looks like it'll be a good time.

Review - My book's genre

With the element of time travel so prominent in the story, my kneejerk reaction is to classify Tempest as science fiction, but so far in the plot, there hasn't been that much science, its just something that Jackson can do, like, with his body.

Therefore, I think it's better to say that this book is magic realism, since events Jackson's powers take him to all take place in the real world, mostly around New York, which, in fact would be hard because in the late 1930s, Manhattan actually had a lot of time displacement energy spread around it. Which makes time travel in New York really difficult. Anyway, the story has very real world elements such as romantic tension, when he meets his girlfriend before she knows him, and family ties, what with his adoptive father maybe being out to get him.