The Everlasting begins where it ends: beneath a yew tree. Its first chapter, The First Death of Una Everlasting, reads like a eulogy written for a nation’s best. We’re told that Una, knight of the realm, died for her queen, and that sacrifice birthed a great nation. But the story we’re given isn’t the one…
Once again, I’m guilty of reading a series out of order. I have no problem doing this, so long as the overall story arc of a series doesn’t get spoiled by doing so. This time it’s Disturbing the Dead by Kelley Armstrong, the third in her A Rip Through Time time-travel historical mystery series. Described…
True confession – despite the fact that I’ve heard nothing but praise for Adrienne Young’s last book, Spells for Forgetting, it’s been on my TBR pile for months for no other reason than I have a small library’s worth of books to get through and there are only so many hours in the day. But…
One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia’s mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community—an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the…
Have you ever lived a life that feels… well, ordinary? Not particularly special, and not in the skin you’re meant to be in? Emma Straub examines this emotion in This Time Tomorrow, a melancholy and unique take on time travel fiction. Every day, Alice visits her beloved father Leonard at the hospital, but he is…
The Last Daughter is an unusual, intriguing novel featuring time travel, magical artifacts and an interesting defense of Anne Lovell. It’s well-written, well-researched, engrossing and incredibly original – but the magical world-building is somewhat weak. The plot is split between two different storylines which eventually intertwine in the last half of the novel. The first…
Narrated by Samantha Brentmoor I was so excited when I read the blurb for A Stitch in Time. A time-slip SFF where a Canadian woman from the present-day travels back and forth from Thorne Manor in Yorkshire, to Victorian England? Yes!! There are ghosts and a mystery and a romance. Sign me up! Bronwyn Dale…
Narrated by Rachel L. Jacobs I’m a big fan of romantic comedy movies and who doesn’t love Tom Hanks?? Unfortunately, Waiting for Tom Hanks wasn’t quite When Harry Met Sally. I found it fairly slow-paced, with the Hanks and Nora Ephron motifs overused. And there was one thing that made me spitting mad. But more…
Here and Now and Then is a literary science fiction novel which focuses on family – how we can never have too much of it and how we will do anything to protect those we love. His mind is going, his memories fading along with it. In the year 2142 Kin Stewart is a special…
Time travel romances aren’t my usual reading fare. I find they can be problematic simply because I often have trouble suspending belief enough to really buy into the main premise of the story. Still, every now and again I come across something that really catches my attention, and Emily Colin’s The Dream Keeper’s Daughter is…
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