Book: The Young City by James Bow (The Unwritten Books #3)

Rating: 5 Stars

Release Date: November 24, 2008

Summary:
Rosemary Watson and Peter McAllister think their future is clear: they’re finally heading off for university. They’re thinking about finding apartments, picking courses, living like adults.
But what happens when the future becomes the past? While helping Rosemary’s brother move into an apartment in Toronto, Peter and Rosemary fall into an underground river and are swept back in time, to Toronto in 1884. It’s a struggle to survive and adapt to the alien culture of the late nineteenth century. Peter and Rosemary are forced to work together, to live together, and to become the adults they’ve only been pretending to be.
As the days stranded turn to weeks, then months, Rosemary and Peter begin to wonder if they’re really ready for a future together – and what they will do if they can’t get back.
Then someone brings them a watch, powered by a battery, made in Taiwan.
Overall:
Rosemary and Peter are finally together at least for a little while. They are both going on to separate colleges but they know that they can make it work. There is nothing that can ruin what they have going or at least that what’s they think.
While helping Rosemary’s brother Theo move into his apartment, they fall through a hole in the floor into a river. A river that takes them back in time, to the year 1884. Luckily, a brother and sister are kind enough to take them into their home, at least until they can find a way back to the future. Soon, though things start going wrong. No matter where they look, Rosemary and Peter can’t find the portal and Rosemary isn’t sure that Peter is all she needs in her life.
How long have they actually been missing? Will they ever make it home and if not, will Rosemary be able to be happy with only Peter?
I have to say that this was the best book of the three. I was so captivated by the story of Rosemary and Peter that I had trouble putting the book down. It was so well written and vivid.
Rosemary and Peter have truly grown since the first book. They are now eighteen and about to enter college, full of dreams about their future. Both of their characters were so well-developed that this book doesn’t have to be read with the other two. You get a feel of their history together just by how they act and it is so believable and sweet.
Also, the supporting characters were amazingly well-developed. At first I was confused at parts but after a while you start to realize that the mystery of who the people are fit into the story.
Overall, The Young City was a wonderful book full of mystery, suspense, and just enough romance. This is going on my shelf as something I might wish to reread later on. If you haven’t heard of this series before you should definitely check it out for a fun, easy read!
The Young City can be ordered here.
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