KT Blog 4: The Eighth Guard

- Book Name: The Eighth Guardian (Annum Guard Book One)

- Author: Meredith McCardle

- Genre: Sci-fi, Fantasy, Time-Travel, Mystery.

- Description: (CAUTION! I'm kind of a spoiler. Some of the summary might be spoilers, I'll try not to, but I sometimes just put it there without realizing that it's a potential spoiler, but I'll try my best to not spoil too much while still telling a lot about the story) Since we got that out of the way, let's go!

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Amanda Oberman (Code name: Iris) is in her junior year at the Peel Academy. Peel Academy is is a government training school, where about 90% of the students end-up going into CIA, and the other 10% going into other branches of the government. To decide what branch you're going into, juniors and seniors are put into many situations and challenges, referred to as Testing Day. Testing Day is practically like a regular schools end of the year test and graduation, except there's no diploma. You get handed the governmental branch you're headed into, and that's it.

No Junior has graduated on Testing Day in decades, so no would expect Amanda to be graduating on Testing Day, but she's got a sinking feeling. So when her name gets called to collect her letter that will tell her what she's doing for the rest of her life, it's not what she was expecting.

Annum Guard is a secret organization in the government that only a selected few know about. They take care of problems by time-traveling and altering the past. And Amanda’s their unwanted newest member. Annum Guard only consists of seven members, and Amanda is the guinea pig to test if they can add more members. Cut off from loved ones and forced to take on a new identity, she'll have to prove herself to stay in Annum Guard, or be sent off to an eternity of isolation where no one will believe her stories of time travel and the government can keep a close eye on her. But Annum Guard is hiding a web of lies, and she wont stop until she uncovers them all.

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I liked this book, and the way the author explains time-travel is very interesting and easy to understand. I would recommend to anyone who likes mystery and time-travel.

~Katie Towery