Time After Time - Tamara Ireland Stone

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Title: Time After Time (Time Between Us #2)
Author: Tamara Ireland Stone
Genre: YA
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 353
Date read: April, 2015

Calling Anna and Bennett's romance long distance is an understatement: she's from 1995 Chicago and he's a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco. The two of them never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn't. And they found a way to stay together, against all odds.

It's not a perfect arrangement, though, with Bennett unable to stay in the past for more than brief visits, skipping out on big chunks of his present in order to be with Anna in hers. They each are confident that they'll find a way to make things work... until Bennett witnesses a single event he never should have seen (and certainly never expected to). Will the decisions he makes from that point on cement a future he doesn't want?


"Time After Time" picks up immediately where "Time Between Us" leaves off, and the two books should really be read as one, as they'd have worked just as well as one long book, rather than two middle-length ones. Because of this, I have a hard time thinking of them as two individual books (it also probably didn't help that I read the last half of the first one, and the entirety of this one in one day!), and I can therefore think of very little new to say about "Time After Time" that I didn't already say about "Time Between Us". I liked that Bennett was the narrator of this book, so we got to see things from his side, and got to meet his family.

I don't envy Anna and Bennett their circumstances, and almost hope there'll be a third book, to show us how things turn out down the line. This book seemed very final though, so I doubt there'll be more.

The ending confused me a lot - at first I thought there was a major plot-hole, and couldn't understand how Tamara Ireland Stone (or her editors) hadn't discovered that, but thinking about it, I'm starting to think that it wasn't a major plot-hole, but just a really brilliant twist... although possibly still with a tiny plot-hole in order to make it possible. But tiny plot-holes I can accept :)

And my initial opinion still stands - I'd love to read more from Tamara Ireland Stone's hand.