History Literature / TempestANovel

* [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler Fifth Chapter Spoiler]]: Holly's death and Jackson's subsequent time jump back to 2007.

* InterruptedIntimacy: Jackson and 007 Holly are about to make love for the first time, when Jackson's father - who has never met Holly - returns from South America early.

* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: Invoked by Jackson when he asks his dad to "accidentally" walk in on him and 007 Holly to keep anything from happening.

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* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: Invoked by Jackson when he asks his dad to "accidently" walk in on him and 007Holly to keep anything from happening.

* {{TVTeen}}s: Averted, for the most part. the main cast of the series are almost all in their late teens and early twenties, and behave accordingly. While they do swear, drink, throw wild parties, and even have sex, they never do so to an excessive amount, and for the most part all seem rather mature for their age.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 4. Mohs/OneBigLie. TimeTravel is possible, and exists because of a difficult to find genetic mutation. And the only [[spoiler:cloning]] has been realistic [[spoiler:artificial insemination]] or [[HandWave handwaved]] by technology from the future being advanced enough to handle the complications.

* YearInsideHourOutside: If Jackson goes into the past for an hour, his body goes comatose for about 10 seconds. Any pain he feels or injuries he incurs are apparently reduced by a similar amount, making him feel like a ghost.

* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTimes: Invoked by Jackson when he asks his dad to "accidently" walk in on him and 007Holly to keep anything from happening.

* Fiction500: Justified in that Jackson's father is a CEO of a pharmaceutical company, and never explicitly shown off, but Jackson casually offers to buy Holly a car on the spot. We're never told if he's joking.

* [[FirstEpisodeSpoiler Fifth Chapter Spoiler]]: Holly's death and Jackson's subsequent time jump back to 2007.
* GrayRainOfDepression: It starts to rain when Jackson realizes he's TrappedInThePast. [[spoiler:Rain is a side effect of time travel.]]

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Jackson can only travel back in time, and cannot change anything in the past.

* LoveTranscendsSpacetime: Jackson tries to do this with Holly [[spoiler:at the end of the book, he erases himself from her life by going back to the day they met. He lets her walk on past instead of running into him.]]

-->-- ''Jackson Meyer [[Literature/TempestANovel Tempest: A Novel]]''.

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Jackson can only travel back in time, and cannot change anything in the past. He instead acts more like a recording device and can use it to determine what would have happened if he made a different decision.

Has a prequel short story also on this page, Tomorrow is Today.

Written by Julie Cross, [[Literature/TempestANovel Tempest: A Novel]] is the story of [[TheProtagonist Jackson]], an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]]. He has a girlfriend and likes to party. And he can speak French. Only he can also travel through time. At first nothing changes in the present when he jumps. He just has the memories of what he did. Them some mysterious people show up at his door shouting nonsense and shoot his girlfriend. Panicked, Jackson jumps into the past, into 2007. Now he must figure out how to return to 2009 and save his girlfriend from her imminent death. But while he's in 2007, he tries to make the best of things.

* CursedWithAwesome: On one hand, Jackson can travel through time. On the other both [[spoiler: the EoT and the CIA are out to recruit him, or kill him/his family if he joins the other side.]]

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** Once to see what it would be like to eat a bunch of food and see if he feels full. [[spoiler:He instead decides to kiss Holly]]

* TimeTravel: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Jackson can only travel back in time, and with one exception, cannot change anything in the past. He instead acts more like a recording device and can use it to determine what would have happened if he made a different decision.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: 4. Mohs/OneBigLie. TimeTravel is possible, and exists because of a difficult to find genetic mutation. And the only [[spoiler:cloning]] has been realistic (artificial insemination) or handwaved by clones coming from the distant future.]]

-->-- ''Jackson Meyer TempestANovel''.

Written by Julie Cross, TempestANovel is the story of [[TheProtagonist Jackson]], an [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary college student]]. He has a girlfriend and likes to party. And he can speak French. Only he can also travel through time. At first nothing changes in the present when he jumps. He just has the memories of what he did. Them some mysterious people show up at his door shouting nonsense and shoot his girlfriend. Panicked, Jackson jumps into the past, into 2007. Now he must figure out how to return to 2009 and save his girlfriend from her imminent death. But while he's in 2007, he tries to make the best of things.