Ahhhh! I'm fan-girling over here. I LOVED this book! I was supposed to read it and then review it.... but instead I read it, then read it again, then re-read my favourite parts, and just now am finally sitting down to review it.
To be truthful I had a hard time starting this book. The concept didn't sound that intriuging and I've never been a fan of time travel novels. However, I was literally hooked one page in. So hooked, in fact, that I made myself sick. Let me explain. I can not read in the car. I get car sick in minutes.... but I literally could not put this book down and ended up struggling to read as my husband drove us to town. I was (and truthfully, still am) that addicted. It was worth getting car sick for.
If you've read a lot, then you will understand when I say that most books you read you've read before in one form or another. True, the plots are slightly different and the characters have different names, but most premises of books are replicas of many before them. That doesn't mean they aren't fun to read - quite the contrary! - but it does make finding something fresh an illusive treat. "When the Day Comes" is just that kind of treat. The concept of this book was so well thought out, totally feasable, exciting, and made for a brilliant adventure. Gabrielle Meyer did a brilliant job writing this story and I was literally swept away into both of Libby's adventures. I just.... my word, did I love this book. It was so so good. Everything from the concept, to the setting, to the incredible twisting plot, to the amazing characters were just a real gift.
I 100% recommend this book. Thank-you to Graf Martin for sending me a copy and to Baker Publishing House.
Back Cover:
How will she choose, knowing all she must sacrifice?
Libby has been given a powerful gift: to live one life in 1774 Colonial Williamsburg and the other in 1914 Gilded Age New York City. When she falls asleep in one life, she wakes up in the other. While she's the same person at her core in both times, she's leading two vastly different lives.
In Colonial Williamsburg, Libby is a public printer for the House of Burgesses and the Royal Governor, trying to provide for her family and support the Patriot cause. The man she loves, Henry Montgomery, has his own secrets. As the revolution draws near, both their lives--and any hope of love--are put in jeopardy.
Libby's life in 1914 New York is filled with wealth, drawing room conversations, and bachelors. But the only work she cares about--women's suffrage--is discouraged, and her mother is intent on marrying her off to an English marquess. The growing talk of war in Europe only complicates matters.
But Libby knows she's not destined to live two lives forever. On her twenty-first birthday, she must choose one path and forfeit the other--but how can she choose when she has so much to lose in each life?
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