goodreads | Time Between Us - Tamara Irealand Stone (Reply)

Title: Time Between Us (Time Between Us #1)
Author: Tamara Ireland Stone
Genre: YA
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 384
Date read: April, 2015

Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett's unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna's life, and with him, a new world of adventure and possibility.

As their relationship deepens, they face the reality that time might knock Bennett back where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question. Against a ticking clock, Anna and Bennett are forced to ask themselves how far they can push the bounds of fate - and what consequences they can bear in order to stay together.

After reading (and being blown away by) an ARC of "Every Last Word", I knew I had to read more by Tamara Ireland Stone - even if I realized I was likely to be disappointed.

Fortunately that didn't turn out to be the case. Granted, "Time Between Us" could in no way live up to ELW, but even so it's a very enjoyable YA. It reminded me very vividly of "The Time-Traveller's Wife" in places, but as that is one of my favourite books, I have no complaints there ;) The plot itself is a pretty run-of-the-mill girl-meets-boy, boy-cannot-remember-girl, boy-time-travels-to-girl (okay, so perhaps not quite that run-of-the-mill) story, but the writing style that captivated me in ELW is present here as well and though desperately sad in places, I was glad to read it.

Don't enter into it expecting another masterpiece like "Every Last Word", but if you're just expecting a traditional YA romance novel, you're likely to enjoy it.

I did at least - and will be continuing right on with the sequel.