Charlie. Once Brooke (mistakenly) believes she’s saved Branson in her second repeat timeline, she lets go of the tension she’s been holding onto and allows herself to fall for Charlie.I could completely understand why Brooke felt like her life was crumbling around her when Branson died and why she would go to such lengths to save him! These two were typical teenagers but they had a deep, abiding love for each other that ran deeper than we often see in YA books.

Brooke and Branson. I loved the closeness of Brooke and Branson’s sibling bond.She has to decide if she’s willing to risk inflicting more pain or if she can learn to accept the things she cannot change. However, neither her first attempt or her second attempt at saving her brother are successful (you find this out right at the very beginning of the book, so it’s not a spoiler) and Brooke finds that her actions are causing harm to herself and others around her. She researches her brother’s disease and finds two likely causes – and then she sets off to prevent him from encountering them. Though the government monitors time travel and doesn’t allow travelers to make changes to their timelines, Brooke is sure that she can outsmart them. When Brooke’s beloved brother dies of a disease that could have been prevented if he’d avoided an unknown trigger, she vows to go back in time and save him. The Clay Lion is a time travel story that focuses on the emotional repercussions.

The clay lion by amalie jahn