A review by beckylbrydon
Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

4.0

A book about time-travellers hunting for a missing item hidden in history, Passengers managed to address multiple themes throughout, all while keeping the reader engaged from start to finish. Through Etta, we saw how priveleged girls of today truly are when looking back to all the social and cultural attitudes of and towards women across time, as she's kidnapped back through time and told to find a very valuble item her mum has hidden. Through Nicholas, the different attitudes to social status and the different colour of skin were addressed, as well as his response to it in his own time of the 1700's and also of other times such as 1940's London blitz. Alexandra Bracken also managed to explain the concepts of how this variation of time travel happens without leaving the reader in confusion, which with the possibilities of paradox's and meeting people in the wrong order is rather impressive. Full with witty arguments and banter, a kick-ass story, a detailed but not overly-so background and left open to so many more possibilites... definitely worth a read