This is 100% YA and splits time between current-day and a dystopian future with monster/zombies and evil scientists. Food science, that is; part anti-GMO and part time travel. Main cast: teenagers. High school drama, girl wants boy, secrets, mystery, drug use and lotto tickets. And it works. This was actually pretty fun. The time travel is linear and is fun for the reader to see how you can use the future to set up the past to alter the pending apocalypse. Not mind bending or convoluted, though. You will get a satisfying story out of this, but of course there is more...so don't expect finality. A little jarring, but I understand the marketing - immediately after the end, you are directed to get one more chapter (epilogue) for free after you are data-mined and sign up for a newsletter or something. I'd rather have the epilogue as there is a build-up, climax, and boom. Done. Note to author: Pick a name and stick with it. The flip-flop spelling of Crys and Chrys is annoying as hell. Super easy to fix. I'm shocked this book has been out since 1 April 2016 without this being noted and corrected. 3.6/5 Stars
From the Publisher:
A GENETIC EXPERIMENT. AN APOCALYPTIC VISION. A RACE AGAINST TIME. You'd think time-travel would be a useful gift, for cheating on tests and winning the lottery--stuff like that. I might have enjoyed my ability...if I hadn't discovered humanity is on the brink of a genetically-engineered apocalypse. Bodies rotting in the streets. Wilderness eating away at my hometown. Monstrous creatures hunting down the few survivors. No one can save the world... except me.
Because for me, it hasn't even happened yet.
For me, it might never happen.
All I need to do is kill the man who will destroy the world. The father of my high-school crush.
The only problem is, the more time I spend in that dystopian wasteland, the less I want to erase it. To save the future, I'll need to sacrifice the one person I can't bear to lose.
