In New York, 2000, Kate and Ben meet at a party and click instantly. It doesn't take long before they are utterly in love and starting their lives together. But Kate keeps having dreams where she wakes up as Emilia, a woman in Elizabethan London, 1593. And every time she comes back as Kate the world is a little bit different and she can't remember it changing.

This book is so beautiful on the outside, and there were some really lovely moments in the writing and the idea was so interesting but I'm just not sure what the author was trying to do, other than depress me with the story.

I liked that it played with the idea of the butterfly effect and how anything you do in the past can make catastrophic changes but I didn't understand how this worked when Kate was waking up as Emilia, a person who truly existed in the past and just lived a normal life (other than trysts with old Shakesy of course).

Kate starts out in a world like our own but that we learn is actually much nicer - different wars, less plastic, no global warming, no history of slavery etc. And slowly her world morphs into ours which is such a downer and gradually gets worse and worse, and the people around her treat her like she's mentally ill.

I wasn't really sure what conclusion I wanted but I feel like it kind of just pittered away into nothing. I just found the whole story made me feel sad, and despair at the state of the world.