Time Between Us

by Tamara Ireland Stone

Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet. Why would they? Anna is sixteen in 1995, fiercely determined to leave her quiet town and finally travel the world. Bennett's seventeen in 2012, living in San Francisco and trying to control his ability to travel through time - an incredible gift, but also an unpredictable curse, which constantly threatens to separate him from the people he loves. When Bennett suddenly finds himself in Anna's world, they are inescapably drawn to one another - it's almost as if they have met before. But they both know, deep down, that it can never last. For no matter how desperate Bennett is to stay with Anna, his condition will inevitably knock him right back to where he belongs - and Anna will be left to pick up the pieces.

• ISBN13: 9780857531155
• Publish Date: 25 October 2012 (first published 9 October 2012)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 11 October 2014
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Imprint: Doubleday Children's Books
• Format: Paperback (UK Trade)
• Pages: 384
• Language: English

Reviews

[Sam@WLABB]

I really enjoyed traveling though time with these two. Stone did a good job developing the ways and rules regarding Bennett's abilities, and all the 90s musical references were fantastic. The romance was swoony, and I liked the how the idea of choice was addressed during the story. I caught myself crying a few times, but shoot! Some of that stuff was really emotional. I would have liked a bit more at the ending, but maybe the second book will give me that.

*ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.
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[Stephanie]

I've never read a time travel book before, so I was excited to get into this book to see how it was dealt with. As soon as I started reading I was engrossed in the book. I found everything fascinating, most likely because it takes place in 1995, but also because it starts out with Anna seeing someone sitting in the bleachers as she ran around the tracks in the morning, and then the next moment he was gone! With no footprints in the snow to see where he went.

From then on I was intrigued. Why was he there? Why did Anna think she saw a look of recognition on his face when he saw her? What is going on?! Ok, it wasn't that drastic, but I was pretty interested.

I really enjoyed Anna and Bennett's relationship and Bennett's awesome time traveling powers and how they can really mess with peoples lives.

For the most part, I really enjoyed this book. There were some points in the story where Anna got on my nerves, and I don't know how she didn't get on Bennett's nerves either. I won't go into what happened, so I don't spoil anything, but Anna became a little pushy and got angry over something that really annoyed me.

But other than that I really enjoyed Time Between Us and will be picking up the next book eventually.

[Kelly]

3.5 Stars.
Adorable. I'm still not sure how exactly the two characters came to cross paths exactly, but being a quick read, there wasn't much room for lengthy explanations. Simple, cute and a great escape.