Book Review for Hourglass by Myra McEntire

Hourglass by Myra McEntire
Release Date: June 14th, 2011
Publisher: Egmont USA
Pages: 387




Summary: Seventeen year old Emerson Cole's life is all about seeing what isn't there, Southern Belles, soldiers that are long forgotten and a haunting Jazz Trio that comes and goes in an instant. With ghosts in her way at every second, she just wants it all to stop so she can be just as normal as everyone else. Emerson has tried everything but the visions keep coming back. So, when her well meaning brother brings in a consultant form a secretive organisation called the Hourglass. Emerson is willing to try this one last consultant but meeting her consultant, Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may even change her past.
   Who is this dark mysterious guy who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room when they are together? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?


Thoughts: Hourglass is an original read with a twist of time travel. Myra McEntire has brought the time travel idea back to life and the way that she incorporated the time travel aspect was just perfect because she made it work with the whole aspect of the book. Myra McEntire didn't just throw the idea in there like, "Hey! I can time travel!" She really made it all work.
       Hourglass has everything that you would ever want in a YA fiction book, humour, romance, action and suspense. Myra McEntire fits this all into one book and executed it VERY well. It couldn't have been any better. It was a very good read I wasn't even able to put it down.
       I think that Myra McEntire did a fabulous job with the protagonist, Emerson. Readers will love her fun and exciting personality. I know I did. She made you laugh, smile and scream with joy but at other times she made you cry and really feel her pain like the author probably intended.
       I know I say this a lot but I think that the cover is so pretty. At first, it looks like a girl walking and having her hair blown into the wall but what is really happening is that she is walking down that wall and being sucked into the floor. I also think that Emerson is just so beautiful on the front and personally, I just love her dress!
       Anyway, one of the many things that I enjoyed in Hourglass was when you hear Emerson referring to herself as "crazy" because of her childhood memories of the mental institution. When I first read that Emerson though she was crazy I was thinking that it is such a great idea because when you read about mental issues in books, you don't hear crazy. So I thought that was a very cool and original idea.
                I would give Hourglass by Myra McEntire 5/5 stars because it was just such a good book inside out. There was no bad part it was just all around AMAZING!

Rating: 5/5 stars
Recommended for people who like: action, suspense, romance, drama, Time Travel, humour and adventure.