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Timepiece starts right where Hourglass left off - with everyone extremely confused on what to do and how to deal with Jack. As it happens, Jack is someone who likes to flaunt his superiority and he decides to show himself to a group of people, including Kaleb, Emerson and Michael. This spirals "the powers that be" into action and sets off the plot for this book. A main part of Timepiece are the different abilities of the characters and basically what they can do to help Kaleb find Jack.
The change in POV was very confusing for me. I couldn't connect to Kaleb at all. I found him to be an entertaining secondary character in Hourglass but that was about it. When I noticed that the POV was changed it threw me off. The fact that Kaleb wasn't likeable at all didn't make things better. He was the douche bag no girl wants to date, really. For most of the book I struggled with his voice but in the end he did grow on me. Still, I think had McEntire gone with Emerson's POV Timepiece would easily have gotten four stars from me. I was very comfortable with Emerson's voice and that is a rare thing indeed.
The prose is nice and it's easy to read - just like Hourglass. However most of the characters we grew to like in the first book blur into the background to make room for what is obviously supposed to be Kaleb's relationship since he didn't "get" Em. He gets involved with Lily, Em's best friend. I'm not saying Kaleb isn't worth of love or anything like that but to me the pairing felt forced. It's too good to be true that the best friend of the crush not only "converts" the man-whore's love but falls in love with him herself. Maybe I don't believe in coincidences like that myself but it didn't feel real to me at all. Lily didn't seem like a person that trusts easily, so having her trusting Kaleb so completely so quickly (the bruise Kaleb gets in the first scene is mentioned when they become a little more intimate) just ... it didn't sit right with me.
I will most likely look into the third book this series (which hasn't been titled yet as far as I know) just to see if McEntire can turn this into a believable story again and make me care about all characters again, especially characters like Nate and Ava who were all but inconsequential in Timepiece.
The change in POV was very confusing for me. I couldn't connect to Kaleb at all. I found him to be an entertaining secondary character in Hourglass but that was about it. When I noticed that the POV was changed it threw me off. The fact that Kaleb wasn't likeable at all didn't make things better. He was the douche bag no girl wants to date, really. For most of the book I struggled with his voice but in the end he did grow on me. Still, I think had McEntire gone with Emerson's POV Timepiece would easily have gotten four stars from me. I was very comfortable with Emerson's voice and that is a rare thing indeed.
The prose is nice and it's easy to read - just like Hourglass. However most of the characters we grew to like in the first book blur into the background to make room for what is obviously supposed to be Kaleb's relationship since he didn't "get" Em. He gets involved with Lily, Em's best friend. I'm not saying Kaleb isn't worth of love or anything like that but to me the pairing felt forced. It's too good to be true that the best friend of the crush not only "converts" the man-whore's love but falls in love with him herself. Maybe I don't believe in coincidences like that myself but it didn't feel real to me at all. Lily didn't seem like a person that trusts easily, so having her trusting Kaleb so completely so quickly (the bruise Kaleb gets in the first scene is mentioned when they become a little more intimate) just ... it didn't sit right with me.
I will most likely look into the third book this series (which hasn't been titled yet as far as I know) just to see if McEntire can turn this into a believable story again and make me care about all characters again, especially characters like Nate and Ava who were all but inconsequential in Timepiece.