“time, mystical time. cutting me open, then healing me fine. were there clues, I didn’t see? isn’t it just so pretty to think. all along there were some, invisible strings. tying you to me.”
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ASHLEY. Not me thinking I was going to be giggling and kicking my lil feet the entire read but actually was silently screaming into the void trying to suck tears back into my eye sockets. Like. Dang. Warn a broke sista on a healing journey before they pick up this book.

Synopsis
Clementine West a rising publicist, a well traveled twenty something, with an aching heart. Navigating the extreme grief after loosing her vibrant and lively aunt, Clementine is gifted her apartment where all the adventures and dreaming began. Here’s the kicker, the apartment can time travel, 7 years to the past. And in the past there’s a boy (there always is) and time will only tell (hehehe) what happens when they meet.

***REVIEW***
I loved this book for so many reasons. Clementine and Iwan are *chefs kiss* (see what I did there 🫣). Their dynamic is cute and fun and soooo sweet. I love everything about the friendships in this book. Her parents. Her aunt. Fiona and Drew and even Juliette. What a reminder that grieving does not have to be alone. That people will love you through it. The most beautiful thing about this book is the reminder that time is literally what you do with it. It’s so malleable and I think we often forget that. We can use it or it can use us. Time sucks, both literally and figuratively. Patience and waiting and wondering and dreaming. That all takes time. And so does breaking and healing and remaking again. But there’s so much beauty to be found if we’re looking and we often just go without being present and miss out on what time is teaching us…offering us. Clementine’s journey reminds me of what time can offer us. What grief can point us to … all consuming and beautiful love. That we’ve known, that we’ve touched, that we’ve felt. What we can create and what we steward. That’s so beautiful and it takes time to know such a beauty and time to see and admire such a song. Or in her case, a picture that changes colors with the season.

I think I gave it 4.5 stars just for the predictability, and I really would have loved to know more about Vera and Analea’s story and for Iwan and Clementine to have talked about it. But maybe there’s a lesson to be learned about the obscurity of their story…and having no clarity. 

Anyways. LOVED.