Ida

Ida is a normal, unmotivated, individual who can time travel or that is what she believes. She is in a relationship with a non binary artist. She lives with her father and autistic relative and has no idea what to do with her life. All she knows is that she can jump around in time. At first, she only uses that power in emergencies. But, then it becomes addictive. Then, Ida loses control of her powers, having no control concerning when she jumps. The places where she lands get more surreal and frightening with each jump. Soon she discovers that there is more to her power than meets the eye.
In many ways this book is nothing to write home about. It is a conventionally written speculative fiction work. However, this book has a diverse range of characters and that is its major selling point. Both the autistic and non binary characters are fairly well drawn. This book would make a great option for those wishing for a diverse YA/ spec read.

The character of Ida really drew me in in the first part of the book, and her trying to navigate around her abilities was incredibly well written and enjoyable. The plot bounced around a lot, and it created as much confusion in me as it did with Ida and the rest of the characters.
I loved how diverse this book was! It's not often that I read a book with a bisexual main character who's Vietnamese (or anything other than white, really). I loved the character of Daisy, they're always there for Ida (except in some alternate timelines).
Damaris was possibly my favourite character though, and I loved the interactions with her and Evans.
I feel (like the author) that this would have been better presented on screen instead of on paper, but it was an enjoyable read!

This book is seriously amazing. There was not a single thing that made me say "I don't like it now because of this". It was a bit confusing at times and it had a lot of info dropping but I gave it a free pass since it was the first book. We need as much information as possible in the first book in order to absorve the details of the world.
Something that I enjoyed a lot was the transitions between scenes when Ida skipped. Either the willing skipping or the forced skipping it was phenomenal.
The diversity in this book is great. It was definitely the main reason why I decided to read it. Ida is a fat bisexual PoC; Daisy is genderqueer (and I think PoC as well) and uses they/them; Damaris is genderfluid and uses she/her; Adrastos is genderfluid and uses he/him. Also I love how these identities aren't the character arcs of any of them.
This is definitely a book I'd recommend to anyone!
(I'll say more on my review once I post it on my blog)