Anyone that read the first book has been holding their breath waiting to see what happens from the first sentence of this book, and I was certainly no acception -- nor was I disappointed. Just by the title of the book, it was clear that what Eve thought should have happened certainly did not. Eve was going to be in water somewhere; not at the compound, and likely not in the right time. Dying to find out what happened to Enoch after she left, we don’t have to wait long -- thank goodness!
I’m sure I’ve said it in every review before, but I’ll say it again...there’s just something about how Bond makes you feel when you read about her characters. We feel every emotion, even from the slightest head tilt or facial expression; it’s like we’re right there with them. In the case of this story, I just want to cry every time I “look” at Enoch’s face. Centuries of anguish simply for having a heart. Put that together with having some seriously crazy siblings that he has to keep from killing the entire world, and now his heartbreak is repeated over and over with CLONES everywhere of his lost love that he thought betrayed him. In many stories, this is the point where it would be really easy for authors to get unrealistic -- either holding onto grudges a little too well, or forgiving everyone too quickly. Not in this case. Bond does a great job at making it complicated. It’s situational, and it’s never easy. It’s believable. And it adds to the heartache that much more.
Poor Eve spends most of this book just trying to keep her head on straight. With her body randomly not working still, and a whole lot of signs pointing to what was really happening in the time she came from, she now has to face going back not knowing who she can trust. As she learns more about herself, Titus learns more than he wants to as well, but Bond makes him the absolute perfect comic relief, both with his joking when he gets stressed, and the borderline dangerous yet funny banter between him and Enoch when Enoch misunderstands Titus’ jokes with Eve as being disrespectful (centuries of time difference and all).
Of course, every good story needs a good villain, and the villains in this one made my skin crawl -- and I loved it. Abram being assigned to target Asa was the perfect creepy pairing. Asa is the most unstable of the siblings, and Abram is definitely the most unstable of the assets targeting them. The turn of events in this story added to it beautifully. There is all sorts of crazy going on, and in the next book I can’t even imagine how much worse it’s going to get, and can’t wait to find out.
There are more pieces coming together about what’s really happening in Eve’s time, who’s really good and who’s really evil, but there is still so much guessing as a reader, that it is killing me to wait until the next book to find out! The build up has been FANTASTIC, and Bond’s ability to make you really feel like you’re a part of the story and truly care about the characters has been perfectly heartbreaking, exciting, and everything in between. I am so ready to see how it all comes together!