I loved this book because it had everything that I search for in a book, including a mix of magic and the mundane that is difficult to find.
I spent most of the book dying to know what had happened to her aunt who had left her the time-slip apartment. The book made me laugh and cry and yell at the characters when I wanted them to act differently. It did a perfect job of leaving breadcrumbs for all the important pieces of the story.
I loved finding an author who likes mixing magic and the regular world, like I do in The Wish.
"A gorgeous love story from one of the finest romance writers out there." —Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After
A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ PopSugar ∙ Real Simple ∙ BookRiot ∙ and more!
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.
This was the fifth time I have read this book and I swear I love it just as much every time I read it.
The book is about a writer who has a story come to her in waking dreams and flashes of vivid insight. The story in the past is one of her ancestors who lived near this place. As a writer, this idea appeals to me. Some of my favorite ideas have come to me in the space between waking and sleeping.
The dual timeline of present and historical mesh seamlessly so that the two pieces complement each other and I love rediscovering all the ways the pieces connect. Having met the author and taken a dozen workshops with her, I appreciate the craft that went into the writing. Plus, she’s a fellow Canadian.
"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters―sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"―DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander
A hauntingly beautiful tale of love that transcends time: an American writer travels to Scotland to craft a novel about the Jacobite Rebellion, only to discover her own ancestral memories of that torrid moment in Scottish history...
In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded…
This book was utterly unique in that the story moves backwards.
As a writer, I admire the author’s ability to tell the story in the wrong direction for everyone except the main character. The story starts in the present when Jen witnesses her teenage son commit a violent crime she cannot comprehend. Every morning, she goes back farther in time as she attempts to figure out how this happened and the underlying reasons.
I loved that the story was so rich and detailed I could picture her struggle. The backward slide is so believable and leaves her completely alone, because anyone she tells, has never heard her story the next time they speak. The layers of her story were heartbreaking, beautiful, and satisfying.
'Perfection, every word, every moment. One of the best books I've ever read' LISA JEWELL 'Ingenious. A book to blow your mind and break your heart' ERIN KELLY 'Extraordinary' HARRIET TYCE 'I am totally in awe. This is one story I will not forget' HEIDI PERKS 'Genre-bending and totally original. A tour de force!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS
PRE-ORDER THE BOOK EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT _________
It's every parent's nightmare.
Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger.
To cope with everyday life, neurodivergent Kat is a secret binge drinker, and jilted Ryan is a workaholic. Disillusioned, neither does more than go through the motions of living-then comes the asteroid.
Warned that a planet-killing asteroid is on a collision course with Earth, acquaintances Kat and Ryan join forces in an effort to survive. Mere hours before impact, they race toward the safety of Ryan's inherited South Dakota bunker, encountering chaos. A last-ditch effort to nuke the asteroid only manages to fragment it into chunks causing multiple strikes. Earthquakes, fire, and volcanic ashfall assail Kat and Ryan, who turn to each other for solace. Kat finds someone kind who values her differences and Ryan finds himself falling for Kat's quick-thinking. Though jaded, they learn to rely on one another.
