Review "Marking Time by April White"

Seventeen-year-old tagger Saira Elian can handle anything... a mother who mysteriously disappears, a stranger who stalks her around London, and even the noble English Grandmother who kicked Saira and her mother out of the family. But when an old graffiti tag in a tube station transports Saira to the 19th Century and she comes face-to-face with Jack the Ripper, she realizes she needs help after all.

Saira meets Archer, a charming student who helps her blend in as much as a tall, modern American teen can in Victorian England. He reveals the existence of the Immortals: Time, Nature, Fate, War and Death, and explains to Saira that it is possible to move between 
centuries – if you are a Descendant of Time. 

Saira finds unexpected friendships at a boarding school for Immortal Descendants and a complicated love with a young man from the past. But time is running out for her mother, and Saira must embrace her new identity as she hides from Archer a devastating secret about his future that may cost him his life.

Title: Marking Time (The Immortal Descendence #1) 
Author: April White
Publisher: Corazon Entertainment
Edition: Kindle
Amount of Pages: 438
Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction

Date Read: 20-03-2019 - 23-03-2019

Favorite Quote: “A man chooses what he becomes, and he must accept responsibility for his choices.”

Review:
I find it very hard to write this review and rate this book. It wasn't a bad book. The writing wasn't the best but also not bad. The concept was great, but it was all a bit confusing. That could be due to the fact that time traveling is often confusing.

I love the side characters. Archer and Ringo are great. They are very loyal. So are Adam and Eva. Even mr. Shaw was great.
Seira not so much. She could have been great if she just stopped and think for one second. If she pushed her ego aside for a minute and listen to what others are saying. I got a bit tired of her always running and running and quite often over reacting.
It could have saved people allot of trouble and danger if she did.
I get why she doesn't trust and why she wants to run, its what she was taught but at some point she needed to learn.
I'm glad that by the end of the book she started to see that she was being careless and reckless. Thats the first step.
Now i hope she'll stop blaming others for things she did and stop acting like a victim when someone gets mad at her for things she did. And at the same time stop only focusing on her own guilt/feelings and ignoring the pain of others.
I think she can be great, she is smart and resorsefull but she needs to learn to listen and think things through for once.

The things I didn't like much do fit her age somewhat and the genre, young adult. It's why i'm not a huge fan of young adult. I hoped that I would love this book but sadly I didn't.

Rating:
2 1/2 it was oke stars