Time After Time

Time After Time

Mikki Daughtry

Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 3.5

From the screenwriter and co-author of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel and film Five Feet Apart comes an epic YA sapphic romance, unfolding over two sets of lives, one hundred years apart.Nineteen-year-old Libby has always been inexplicably drawn to the old Victorian house on Mulberry Lane. So much so that when she sees a For Sale sign go up in the front yard, Libby uses all the money her grandmother left her to pay for college to buy the house instead, determined to fix it up herself—even though she knows her parents will be furious. Soon after moving in, she discovers a journal written by a young woman, Elizabeth Post, who lived in the house nearly a century earlier. It doesn’t take long for the journal to reveal that Elizabeth was madly in love with her personal maid, Patricia. A love that was forbidden and dangerous, especially at that time.Enter Tish, a brash, broke fellow college student, who passes by the house one day and is mysteriously compelled to knock on the door. Soon Libby offers Tish a room in exchange for her help in fixing up the old house, and the two young women quickly find themselves falling for each other. But as Elizabeth’s journal entries delve deeper into her secret love affair with Patricia, uncanny similarities between that young couple and Libby and Tish are revealed, and it becomes clear that this may not be their first time in this house, or in this love. Is this their chance to get it right?


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  • KaylaMShea
    Apr 20, 2025
    Enjoyment: 2.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 2.5Plot: 3.5

    Time After Time follows Libby, a new homeowner of her dream house, as she navigates her new life away from her family. She meets Tish in one of her college classes. Tish is surprised to find out the house that she has been so drawn to is owned by Libby. They start fixing the house up together all the while Tish is reading a diary she found in the house. Tish is so obsessed with the love story she is reading that she seems to actually live it. I found this a cute read. I didn't mind the jumping back and forth from the past to the present. I think I figured out pretty early what was going on but of course it took the characters in the book a lot longer. It wasn't as fast paced as I wish it would have been. But it wasn't bad. I love how it all plays out at the end.

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