Thursday, February 01, 2018

#BookReview: The Last Beginning (The Next Together #2) by Lauren James




About the Book:

Sixteen years ago, after a scandal that rocked the world, teenagers Katherine and Matthew vanished without a trace. Now Clove Sutcliffe is determined to find her long lost relatives. But where do you start looking for a couple who seem to have been reincarnated at every key moment in history? Who were Kate and Matt? Why were they born again and again? And who is the mysterious Ella, who keeps appearing at every turn in Clove's investigation? 

For Clove, there is a mystery to solve in the past and a love to find in the future.








Reviewed By: Lauren
Publisher: Walker Books
Recommended Age: Young Adult 
Genre: Science Fiction, Time Travel 
How I Acquired this book: Edelweiss+
Overall rating: ★★★
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About the Author:
Lauren James is 24, and graduated in 2014 from the University of Nottingham, UK, where she studied Chemistry and Physics. She sold the rights to her first novel The Next Together, a Young Adult science fiction romance, when she was 21. It has been translated into five languages worldwide and is out now with Walker Books in the UK and Australia, and will also be published by Sky Pony Press in the USA. It was described by The Bookseller as ‘funny, romantic and compulsively readable’. It was also longlisted for the Branford Boase Award, a prize given to recognise an outstanding novel by a first time writer. Lauren lives in the West Midlands and is an Arts Council grant recipient.

Her other novels include The Last Beginning, the epic conclusion to The Next Together about love, destiny and time travel. A short story set in the world of The Next Together series, Another Together, is also available as a free eBook.

You can find her on Twitter at @Lauren_E_James or her website http://www.laurenejames.co.uk.


Noteworthy experiences while reading this book: Better than book one but still had some issues. 

Check out author's other books? Maybe
Recommend this book? Maybe 

Notes and Opinions:  Well this one was better than book one that I read a little while ago. But it still fell far from the 5 star book I was looking for.  This one has some major issues with getting the story to us in a way we can understand it. I found it very confusing and kind of all over the place. I think with some work this could become a great book but for me it just fell far from what I was expecting.  If you die hard loved book one you might like this book more than I did. 

Go Into This One Knowing:  Confusing
 









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