Correlation by Mia GraceMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Source: Received to Review
Genre: YA time travel
Book Description: When the past and the present collide…
Hailey Kent knows how she wants to spend the summer before her junior year in high school: hanging out at the pool with Jenna, her BFF; riding her new trail bike on Vermont’s country roads; and flirting with Jenna’s hot older brother, Cody.
Hailey’s plans are shattered when a post-graduation accident puts her brother into a coma. Feeling guilty for not stopping him from going out that night, she seeks solace in exploring an old house and its overgrown gardens.
A mysterious correlation of events propels her back in time to the Vietnam War era, where she realizes she can use her knowledge of one boy’s fate to save his life.
But first, Hailey needs to convince him of her sanity.
My thoughts: This is a very interesting book. It takes on a very interesting thought, what if you could go back in time and change things? Would you make them better, different, or worse?
Hailey is faced with a dilemma. Her brother has been in a terrible car accident. He is in a coma and if he wakes up his life will be altered. He will need to be taken care of, and not live a normal life.
In a twist of fate, she finds that she can travel back in time about 50 years. Circumstances are such that she might be able to save her family from heartache.
I enjoyed this look at time travel and the ramifications that can happen. Mia Grace has written a very good story that is different from others. It starts a little slow, the time travel happens about half way through the book. She lays the groundwork well so that the reader can grasp the significance of the events.
Read an Excerpt:
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Chapter
One
“I
can’t believe how bad we were!” Hailey Kent stood on the sidelines of the sunny
playing field and brushed the loose dirt from the front of her Fenton High
T-shirt. On the expanse of trampled grass before her, the two remaining pairs
of sophomore girls moved in perfect synchrony toward the finish of the
three-legged sack race.
Hailey
swiped sweat from her forehead with a gritty forearm as she watched the lead
couple. “Look at Lexie and Jess. They’re speed demons.”
“They’re
coordinated,” Jenna Wells answered. “And they have a system.”
“We
had a system. You just don’t know your right leg from your left.” Hailey rubbed
the grass stains from her knees. “We’re going to have to hit your pool after
this.” She stood up and shaded her eyes with one hand, peering toward the
baseball diamond in the distance.
A
familiar figure stepped up to bat in the softball game in progress between the
seniors and the faculty. Cody. He stood poised over the plate, his practice
swings confident as he faced the faculty pitcher. Her heart flip-flopped. “Is
that Cody?”
Jenna
followed the direction of Hailey’s gaze and scrunched her cute little pug nose
at the sight of her older brother. “Yep. The weirdo was all psyched this
morning about this game. Is David playing?”
Hailey’s
delightful vision of Cody at the breakfast table faded at the mention of her
own brother. “No, he’s skipping school today.”
Jenna’s
chocolate brown eyes went wide in mock disbelief. “Skip a field day? His last
one ever?”
“Don’t
remind me.” Hailey turned back to the grassy field in time to see the last of
her sack-racing classmates lurch across the finish line. “I have to give up my birthday so we can celebrate his stupid graduation. He’d skip that,
too, if my parents would let him.” Just talking about it made her teeth clench.
Jenna
picked up the sweatshirt she had tossed on the grass. “What did your mom say
about the taco party?”
“I
can do it next weekend.” Hailey mimicked her mom’s voice, “‘David’s only going
to graduate once, but you can have a birthday party any time.’ Like turning
sixteen is no big deal.”
“Maybe
it’s for the best. More kids’ll be able to come next weekend.”
Hailey
couldn’t resist smirking at her impish friend, who’d recently dyed a streak of
ruby red in her long blond hair against her mother’s wishes. “Plus maybe you won’t be grounded by then.”
Their
classmates were coming in from the sidelines to meet at the finish line, a
clump of rowdy teenage girls in short shorts and Fenton tees celebrating the
end of the school year with cheers and high-fives.
As
she and Hailey strolled across the sunny lawn to join them, Jenna asked, “Do
you think your folks’re going to get you that off-road bike?”
“I
hope so. We’ve got to stay in shape so we can kick butt next year.”
Jenna
gave her a playful grin. “Uh, we?”
Hailey
grinned back at her. “Yeah, we—you
and me, sister. We’re biking every day this summer. And next year, we’re smokin’ this race.”
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About the Author: I write Young Adult novels as Mia Grace and Women's Fiction as Rosemary Fifield.
While consumer education is my profession, writing novels is my passion. A day made in heaven is one in which I can lose myself in a place and time of my own creation and hang out with the people who inhabit it.
Finishing a book is often more of a let-down than one might think. It means I will no longer spend time with my friends on a daily basis; it's like having them move far away.
The only antidote is to start another novel or, better yet, write a sequel. Perhaps someday I'll bring all my characters together into a single work, as they inhabit the same area of Vermont. However, a little time travel may be required!
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