This book couldn't decide what it wanted to be, a cozy time travel romance? A spy thriller? A self-insert fanfic? Upmarket fiction? And so it ended up being bad. Very bad. I'm starting to get a sense for what a book is going to be like based on which Book Club is recommending it. I think it's safe to say Good Morning America picks are almost always awful (with the exception of Ink Blood Sister Scribe, which slaps).

The publishers must have thrown a massive advance and tons of marketing moolah into this book instead of investing in the editing it needed, both structurally and at the sentence level. Structural: what even is genre? Screw reader expectations, amirite? Also time travel: how does it work? Fugget about it. Sentence: Pg 42  “He was adjusting with gold-star alacrity in recognizing that it wouldn’t be a reputation-denoting act for a respectable woman to be seen in a public house in the company of bachelors.” Metaphor metahpor metaphor. Stop it.