I think its really interesting how Cass goes back in time to find a very important unknown secret. This secret could be anything! She doesn't even have an idea of its subject but yet her mind takes her back over 500 years to go on this adventure. Now her reason to this is the Terces Society needs this secret to go on with all of their missions.  But what I think is that she wants to learn about herself and her past. She recently found out she was adopted this filled a void she had for on long time, but not completely. She still didn't know who her biological parents were. I think that Cass felt if she figured out this secret then her life would be complete and she would know everything needed to know.

Not true. When she went back in time she spoke to the Jester (her great great great great... grandfather) and asked him for the secret. He told her he had no such thing as a secret yet and he would tell once he had one. They found a place were 500 years from now the secret would be kept safely. Under a special lodestone. After Cass had heard this she thought, I know where the secret will be now so my mission of the past is complete. Yet she stayed in the past world. I think she wanted to figure out more of her family. Just what would happen that would lead her to life.

Later on she finds the loadstone inside of it is a clue. It says
As Above So Below
She is confused. Later on she receives a package thats say her name on it dating from many many years ago (it was even on the mayflower) In it is a big treasure chest once it is opened she finds a million gold coins, jewels, golden goblets. But she is very dissapointed, this hasnt givin her any information on her past just riches. I think that the chest was a prize and that the clue inside the loadstone was the secret. As Above So Below means to me what happened once is connected to what is happening now so if you want to find the secret you don't need to go 500 years back, but you need to find what is most important and learn that if you look too closey at the past and what you wish for and can't have then you will not acomplish anything you have to move forward in life.

Just a Thought Away-Pseudonymous Bosch This isn't what is looks like

In the book This isn't what it Looks Like, there are 2 characters a boy and a girl, Cass and Max Ernest. They are apart of a secret society that deals with spies and cracking codes. Currently Cass is in a medically indused coma. In her coma she has dreams where she goes back in time to try and find out a big secret of her past. She doesn't know what its about, just that it is very important. I thought that it was very interesting that the most important things happening in her dreams would show up in real life. For example she finds a fortune teller who uses tarot cards to see her future. While she is dreaming this, Max Ernest is in the cafeteria having his tarot cards read aswell. The difference though is that the girl is making fun of him by lieing about that cards he has.

This really interested me. Thinking the path happening in the real world seems to be a big lie. Whereas in Cass's dreams its very true. This had me thinking, if everything is the opposite in sleeping and awake, then sleeping is just a distraction (not in the sense that people shouldn't sleep.) Cass is going in the wrong place to find the truth. Her mind is sending her to the place it is happiest in. If everything goes well in the dream world it mean nothing bad can happen so really, there is and never will be a secret.

If she came out of her dream state of mind, she could find the things that were wrong and didn't fit. Leading her to the secret. What i believe in is that to get rid of your problems you cant hide from them, and from then on expect everything to go right. You have to know that hiding from them will just delay you. And even though Cass wants to know the big secret, she is just the smallest bit scared to know.