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I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from the author. All views expressed are only my honest opinion.
MY REVIEW:
Aftermath is the second book in The Ripple Effect duet and really finishes this story off with a BANG!
Firstly, let’s just talk about this duet. This is the story of Caitlyn Richter – her family has a “disorder” where certain generations of women at the age of 21, find themselves involuntarily time travelling backwards to some point in history. BUT they have to be extremely careful while they’re there because any changes they make to history will ultimately change their own future.
If you’ve seen the movie Butterfly Effect, then you will understand the concept here. This story is a bit different because there is some linearity to the travel points they go back to and the story is overall more sensitive to the bad things that might happen or impacts on the character’s future state.
Plus, this story is very different in that Caitlyn ends up meeting a boy on her travels to 1984 and falls in love. Book Two, Aftermath, follows the progression of this love story and how they try to find a way to be together even though they live 40 years apart on a linear timeline.
I don’t want to go too much into the story of Book Two as it will give away spoilers from Book One. But I can tell you that I was hanging on every single chapter wanting to know how things were going to work out and what Caitlyn might change in her future. The author does an amazing job at keeping information aligned so as not to lose the reader in all the activity that takes place.
I loved the characters and were rooting for Caitlyn and Toby to find some way of being together!
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One choice can change everything.
Now that Caitlyn has changed the past, she must face the consequences in her present. But so much of her life has been impacted, adjusting seems impossible.
If she could, she’d spend all her time in the 1980’s with Toby. Wrapped in his arms or listening to him play the guitar. But the universe keeps dragging her back to 2022.
How do you connect with family members who don’t share the same memories? How do you move forward when your entire history has been rewritten? These are the questions Caitlyn must answer if she is to forge a new future for herself.
A future without Toby. It’s the last thing she wants, but what choice does she have?
Aftermath is the second book in The Ripple Effect series and the final book told from Caitlyn’s perspective.
Read my review for The Ripple Effect!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cally Jackson
Cally Jackson grew up in the small country town of Gatton in Queensland, Australia.
Cally’s passion for fictional writing first emerged in grade two when she got in trouble for penning her own tale instead of copying directly from a story book as she was supposed to be doing – it was a handwriting exercise, after all.
Cally’s first novel, The Big Smoke, was published in 2012. A decade and two children later, her second novel, The Ripple Effect, and its sequel, Aftermath, will be published in the second half of 2023.
Cally now lives in Brisbane with her husband and children.
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