In I Know You, Russell Goven has combined romance, mystery, and family secrets into a compelling story about choosing love. 

Eilidh was a brilliant main character, and a very true-to-life depiction of an 18-year-old. She was optimistic, a touch naive, but also pragmatic and headstrong. We meet her at a very tumultuous time in her life, and I certainly had some flashbacks to my own A-Level results day! 

Time travel romances can often be difficult to land, when you have two people of different ages meet at different stages in life, sometimes including childhood. What I really liked in this book though was that while Eilidh did meet Walter at different times in his life, that wasn’t what made her fall in love with him. Rather, she saw the potential for the happiness she could have with him throughout her life, and she had the opportunity to choose to meet him at the same age as her so they could grow old together. It was a really good use of the trope and set this book apart (and, in my opinion, above) others of the genre. 

I would have loved for this book to be longer. For a story with so much depth and with so much going on, it sometimes felt like we were jumping from one event to another without any time to examine and reflect on what was going on. The rules that govern time travel in this particular book weren’t always addressed or were raised as and when they were needed, and I think a longer book could have given us more time to understand and settle in with the rules of this world. 

This was still an incredibly enjoyable read though, and a must-read for anyone who enjoys time travel romance! 

I received a free copy as part of the Travelling Pages Book Tour. All opinions are my own.