When Kate Pierce-Keller's grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate's present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence.
Kate learns that the 1893 killing is part of something much more sinister, and her genetic ability to time travel makes Kate the only one who can fix the future. Risking everything, she travels back in time to the Chicago World's Fair to try to prevent the murder and the chain of events that follows.
Changing the timeline comes with a personal cost-if Kate succeeds, the boy she loves will have no memory of her existence. And regardless of her motives, does Kate have the right to manipulate the fate of the entire world?
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The heel of my white kidskin book ripped a six-inch gash in the hem of my skirt as I whipped around the corner. PROLOGUE
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(Skyscape, 1 January 2014, ebook, 376 pages, borrowed from @AmazonKindle, #PrimeReading)
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I love books about time travel and have read books with similar themes and storylines so thought Timebound would be something I'd enjoy. The child in me also likes messing around with Kindle-in-motion books. I had a lot of fun reading this book. I was impressed by the layout of the book, not just the interactive elements but the pages had been designed to look like old parchment. As for the storyline, I've read similar books and this is exactly what I expected, a lot of fun but with some darker moments as well as Kate races to save the world and the future. This is the first in a series I might read someday. I also liked the fact the time-travelling devices are known as Chronos medallions. Chronos is the personification of time. This was a nice touch.