Joe is a linesman at the Grand Central Terminal in bustling New York City in 1937 when a young woman appears suddenly shaken and confused and that was all it took. They begin a once-in-a-lifetime, tragic love affair that will endure time but is also ruled by it. Nora is not alive nor did she die from a tragic explosion that rocked Grand Central years before. She is caught in time - destined to appear on that fateful day years later and then disappear just as quickly. Joe can't let her go but he also can't figure out how to make her stay and for them to have a normal life. They do figure out a way for Nora to stay longer as long as she doesn't venture outside the train station perimeter. Her art flourishes thanks to the art classes above the terminal and they live at the hotel nearby thanks to kind friends. Their future has no future but for Joe, there isn't a future without Nora. Sweet romance, interesting fantasy angle, and characters to fall in love with making this a first-rate historical romance with a twist. Perfect for fans of THE STRANGE CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONS and mildly spooky gothic ghost stories. My thanks to the publisher for the advance copy.

Time After Time is a beautiful and sweet love story. It breaks your heart and makes you believe in the power of love. I love learning more about the secrets in my city and Grand Central Terminal, one of the most beautiful spots in NYC, has such an interesting history full of ghost stories. It was nice to add this one to the mix. I am a fan of historical fiction and I truly felt transported back to the Depression and WWII time. I loved Joe and Nora’s story. Both characters were equally compelling and their story transcends time and space. A must read for historical fiction and romance readers. You wont be disappointed!
Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you Random House and Netgalley for this lovely book in exchange for an honest review:

It is rare that I pick-up a book and have to keep reading. I usually pick up a book, read the first paragraph or two and usually know if something is for me or not. I will, usually, return to said book and give it a chapter or two, just be fair. Not with this gem. It had me at two sentences.

Other reviews gave wonder synopsis' of the story already so I'll just share my opinion: The story of Nora and Joe is...charming, funny, sweet, heart-wrenching (literally, there was a certain scene I could feel my heart tighten for Joe) and I guess if I had to chose one word, beautiful. I loved their playful banter and wit, the way they fought and loved. I loved the little tales of the Grand Central Terminal and Crazy Mabel. I loved everything about 'Time after Time', except three, albeit, little things.

Now, please take note, these three things are in regards to this uncorrected galley:
1. "he loved the thought that she M-shaped entity..." I have no idea idea what this is. I went back to look at previous chapters, certain I missed something as I was devouring this delicious book, but still came up empty.
2. "He had never been to an ocean..." is this possible for someone from Queens, NY? He can go to World's Fair but he can't take an extra 45 minutes and go to Rockaway? Or Riis Beach?
3. "The fact that some relative of his once worked here as a trainman..." who is this person? Is this Joe's grandson? Great-grandson? Is this Mike's son - grandson - great-grandson? By using "some relative", as the reader, I have no idea who this is, expect they are part of the Joe's family. In the book, Finn, Joe, and Mike were said to all look a like. If instead of "some relative," the author might have used "grandfather" or "great-grandfather" something more specific, if only for the selfish reason, that I (the reader) would at least get my happy ending knowing that Joe got his; because I could believe that this person is part of him. As it is now, I'm left in a gray world because I have no idea who this person is and their relation to Joe.

Saying all that, I loved this book and know that when it comes out in June 2019, I will be picking up a copy for my library. It is definitely re-read material.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced digital copy of this book in exchange for my review. Here is that review:

On a cold December morning in 1937, Joe encounters a young woman he has never seen before. And Joe has seen EVERYBODY that goes through Grand Central Station. This woman is dressed in a tattered out-of-date flapper dress and beautiful pearl earrings - and she speaks as if it were still the Roaring Twenties! After spending some time with her, Joe offers to accompany her home, but along the way she simply vanishes. A few years later, he once again runs into her - and once again she disappears. The book follows the many appearances - and a few disappearances - of Nora Lansing in Joe Reynolds' life.

This is one of those love stories you just really WANT to work out, but realize it simply can't. Suspending belief is so much fun when the book is this good - and this one really is. The penultimate chapter is dated 1947 and the last one is simply "Many Years Later", so the book covers at least 25-30 years.

Read it - you will like it!

Thank you net galley for the advance read copy of this novel. I enjoyed this time travel novel that has lots of historic tidbits along the way. This was a fairly quick read and would recommend.

This book has easily become one of my Top Ten of 2019. What first drew me to this book was the beautiful cover in which a woman’s upper body is disappearing while her dress is billowing in the wind. I truly enjoyed this love story that spanned over a decade and involved time travel. The writing was beautiful, but my favorite parts were the descriptions of the sights. The story takes place in New York at the Grand Central Station spanning from the 1920s to 1950s. I have personally never been there, but felt that I was thanks to the beautiful descriptions. I learned about Manhattanhenge, about the Whispering Gallery, and so much more. I really appreciate that the author included the story about where she got her inspiration from because I’ve heard of stories of people seeing and talking to ghosts without realizing that the other person is a ghost. This topic fascinates me and the author did a great job in incorporating it into her story.
I want to thank NetGalley, Random House Publishing Group-Random House, and the author for providing me with this book in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this story. I found the characters likeable and engaging. The author captivated the grander if Grand Central Station and the time period presentated. I found the theory of Manhattanhedgr so interesting I looked up the phenomenon on the computer. The whole concept of this story was total fantasy which did not deflect my engagement while reading it. Thank you Netgalley for the eARC book in exchange for an honest review.

i appreciated the historical side of this romance. Sometimes exposition was too wordy, breaking up the tension of the story, but phrasing was elegant and lovely.

What a sweet, fascinating and magical read. Although I have never been to Grand Central, the author described it so beautifully, I felt like I lived in there the entire time I was reading. The love story between Joe and Nora was simply magic and woven through the story and it’s location so well. I had never heard of Manhattanhenge prior to reading this novel, which was very interesting. Thank you to Netgalley and Random House for the ARC.

Set in New York City at the end of the Great Depression and through World War II, Time After Time lovingly brings the time period, the people, and Grand Central Station to life. When Joe, a leverman at the historic terminal, first meets Nora, he has no idea how much the encounter will alter his life. Their repeated meetings - and separations - become the basis for a most unusual and magical love affair that is heartwarming and real. They build a life at the terminal and the majestic Biltmore Hotel, but Nora cannot share all of Joe's life. He has a father and a brother out in Queens, and when the brother joins the war following Pearl Harbor, it is up to Joe to watch over his brother's family. Joe is a staunch, kind, hardworking man inexplicably drawn to a woman who is charming and beautiful and gregarious. The concept is based on the annual sunset or sunrise, known as Manhattanhenge or the Manhattan solstice, when the sun aligns perfectly with the east–west streets of the main street grid of Manhattan, It was an interesting premise handled skillfully and with care by Grunwald. With a a release date of June 2019, this will be a perfect summer read for historical fiction and/or historical romance fans.

Magical, Enchanting an epic time travel book set in a place that most New Yorkers don't give a second thought. This story is really a sweet beautiful love story set between two people from different times that must fight for who and what they love. I cant remember the last time I felt so emotional even after finishing a book. If you can only read one book this Spring Time after Time must be your choice.

Easy read, perfect for my trip. The main characters’ love story spans decades and takes you on a trip to to a time we have forgottten in NYC. As a native and one that felt a familiarity with more than one.m character it had me wishing “what if?” I’ll look for more from this author. Thank you NetGalley for the preview.

What a perfectly written book in which the main characters will linger long after the reading. It is much more than a love story or time travel or the exquisite descriptions of the eras and of course GCT. And the ending is just wonderful.

Who doesn't love a love story that involves time travel? This book is made for fans of Outlander, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Lake House, and various Hallmark movies. I adored Lisa Grunwald's endeavor into the genre with Time After Time. Nora and Joe are #goals, and their relationship is set against the marvelous backdrop of Grand Central Terminal through the Roaring Twenties to Great Depression to WWII, which is a fascinating juxtaposition. It's an emotionally evocative tale, which I would highly recommend.

PRAISE
“I’ll never again set foot in Grand Central Terminal without looking over my shoulder for Nora and Joe, or marveling at the station itself—a backdrop as intriguing as the love story that unfolds beneath its star-studded ceiling.”—Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of We Were The Lucky Ones

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and Random House for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

Time After Time is a sweet love story that stuck with me long after completing the book. I never realized a tale about a ghost could be so romantic. I’m a fan of historical fiction but have never read anything about the New York Grand Central Terminal station prior to this book. I found it to be so original and refreshing. After reading this, I had to look up all the ghost stories involving the train station and there are actually quite a bit! It was fascinating to read about. However, the story itself it not really about ghosts. It’s a love story through and through; one that transcends the rules of time. Breathtaking.

It's been a long time that I have felt so emotional after finishing a novel. Lisa Grunwald has created that kind of a book with Time After Time! I couldn't put it down and read it in only a matter of a couple of days. What I thought might be a silly story at first, had me completely spellbound. Oh, if these things could truly happen! After I finished the book, I could not explain the story to my husband without it getting caught in my throat and tearing up. I was riveted by this novel! And (no spoilers) it had the perfect ending, not to be told here. I'll be thinking of Joe and Nora every time I walk through Grand Central Staton for the rest of my life, wondering about all those nooks and crannies they lived their lives in. Where is the art studio? Does it exist? Thank you to first of all to Random House Publishing Group - Random House, for printing this amazing story. I do expect to see it on the New York Times Best Seller list once it's published, and secondly to NetGalley for the egalley of this book. It's one that I'm sure you'll have many requests to read. But all my thanks truly go to Lisa Grunwald for, as she says in her notes and acknowledgements, writing her story, and for writing it so succinctly and eloquently!

Oh, boy. This story broke my heart. What a beautiful and sweet love story. It tugs at the heartstrings, makes you cry from sadness, groan from frustration and in the end, you just sit there, temporarily incapable of thinking or speaking, taking in the wave of sadness and a surprising sense of completion.

The writing was absolutely perfect - I really felt like I was transported to the 1930-40s and was experiencing the Great Depression and WWII as our beloved characters were. The details and descriptions proved endless research into the time period and it is honestly much appreciated as a reader. This time-travel(ish) romance proved to be a most welcome history lesson, bringing to life people's struggles in two of the most grueling and dark decades of the 20th century. I also had no idea what Manhattanhenge was, but now I just want to take another trip to New York just to witness it for myself.

Joe and Nora. It is so rare for me to absolutely love two characters equally. Usually, I'll feel more of a pull towards one over another. But in the case of Joe and Nora, I just felt love. Pure love. It's hard to describe, but I really did fall in love with both of them and in love with their unique love story. I was rooting for them as soon as they first laid eyes on each other. I felt the pain and confusion Joe felt every time she would vanish. I relished in their happiness and joy upon being reunited and staying together. And I was in awe of their selflessness and sacrifice.

If you're looking for a beautiful love story that will effortlessly transport you to a different time and place, THIS is the book for you.

I must say there was some initial reluctance going into this book. It sorta kinda sounded like women’s fiction, a very specific type of lachrymose sweeping romance. And wouldn’t you know, in the end it actually was a potentially tear inducing grand (Grand Central based) epic love story, but it was so, so good, I didn’t care. In fact, this book drew me in from the first few pages in a way few books do and managed to sustain that level of emotional engagement throughout its not inconsiderable girth. The description features literary comparisons to famous works (as these descriptions are won’t to do) and here they are actually not undeserved, although for me it was also very reminiscent of the movie Age of Adaline, mentioned nowhere, but a comparison in my opinion well deserved. Both tales of timeless women stuck in temporary challenged love stories are very lovely, albeit in their own ways. The lady that isn’t in a blue dress on the cover is Nora Lansing, a 23 year old spirited young woman who, due to a tragic and miraculous set of circumstances, gets stuck in the Grand Central in New York, her presence inextricably connected to a solar spectacle known as Manhattanhenge. There she meets and falls in love with a leverman, a mad wild crazy passionate love affair circumscribed by the seemingly impossible geographical restrictions not to mention familial obligations and then a world war. I probably shouldn’t say much more here, the description says it all, in fact the description gives away too much as descriptions often tend to, I’m glad I didn’t read it prior to reading the book. I wanted to be surprised and I was, pleasantly surprised, delighted, charmed. Actually love, yeah, not too strong of a word, I loved this book, which made some of much frustrations with it all the more…well, frustrating. And please do not read the following if you haven’t read the book, it might give away too much. If you’ve read up to now, you already know I recommend you read this book, but now it’s time for me to vent out some thoughts, so here it goes…Yeah, not everyone gets to ride off into the sunset together, but that doesn’t mean we aalk off into the sun alone, does it? Seriously? Why? Whatever became of love conquers all? Omnia vincit amor my ass. For all its grand romance, this ended up very much being one of those loves that altered when it alteration found. I’m not sure why self sacrificial love is so de rigueur, but frankly it just didn’t seem necessary. Dramatic, yes. But not necessary. Surely there can be found a way for one person in a couple to travel solo and then return to their loved one. My fiancé has done it marvelously. To go through all that the main characters go through and then separate for what seemed like fairly trivial reasons…frustrating. Yes, she would have stayed young, but so what, she would have aged mentally. For a couple that starts off with a 10 year age difference to suddenly make a huge deal out of a 20 year age difference later on seems silly. Yes, that may have been before celebrities have made such thing ubiquitous, but even back in the day it wasn’t unheard of…Chaplin, anyone. Yes, they wouldn’t have had kids, but so what, there are plenty of childless happy couples out there. Plus if Nora was so concerned for her rapidly aging beloved…maybe he was aging out of kid having age anyway. For all the sweeping grand romance of it, for all the waiting and all the challenges and all that magic, for all of it to end over what it ended over seemed to have trivialized their love. In fact it just seemed like two people who have sorted out their priorities and decided to call it quits and for various reasons (mainly because it makes the best story) told themselves and each other it was for their partner’s own good. Which is fine, it’s realistic and there are plenty of stories like that, but this just didn’t seem like that kind of story. This seemed like it ought to rise above all the tedious triviality of life. I mean, it had magic, real freaking magic. So you would have expected more. Well, anyway I did. I expected more. I was so engaged with the characters and their story, I actually wished them a proper fairy tale ending or something like it. After all, Age of Adaline worked it out. Plus the author in her afterword said she based it on her own relationship, which despite its challenges did not in fact come undone, so it made it all the more unfair that it should work out that way for the couple in the book. I mean, what sort of a message is that? Vampire Bill had to die to free Sookie Stackhouse to love and breed in an ordinary way. Or, more recently and of a much higher quality of entertainment, Jackson Maine went and offed himself to give his wife a chance at musical success. All this self sacrificial (or as the case in book, faux self sacrificial) crap can be packaged and sold as romantic, sure. But for me personally it seems that the greater romance is one that conquers challenges and works despite them, not one where you can glamorously walk off into the sun. There is much to be said about the selfishness of selflessness, but then again this already might be my longest review ever, so I should probably wrap it up. If you read the entire thing…wow and thank you. May this rant have enlightened or at least entertained you. I did love this book, despite all this. Thanks Netgalley.

Time After Time by Lisa Grunwald. Random House, 2019.

In December 1925, twenty-three-year-old Nora and her friend Ollie are in a train crash at New York’s Grand Central Station where twenty-year-old Joe is part of the rescue team. Twelve years later they meet for the first time; their paths cross again in 1938. This wonderful story is about Joe and Nora and their developing romance in the self-contained and evolving world of Grand Central Station.

Although It is worth reading just for the rich, descriptive and historical details on the station, it is so much more. The culture of the period, Joe’s relationship with his brother and his family, Pearl Harbor, the early days of World War II are woven through Joe and Nora’s intriguing and story. I loved it!

It is difficult not to compare Time After Time to The Time Traveller’s Wife, another romance with a twist where time has an uncontrollable effect on a relationship.

Disclosure: I received a review copy of Time After Time via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

What a lovely and bittersweet story! This is indeed a magical tale where Nora and Joe find timeless love in one of New York City’s most magical places – Grand Central Terminal. Nora, a 23-year-old adventurous artist is caught between life and death after a tragic accident and Joe is a hard-working railroad employee from Queens who accepts the truth behind his new-found love. The story spans through WWII and the changes taking places throughout the world. The incredible Grand Central Terminal is essentially a character unto itself and we are invited into many of its famed and often hidden places such as the clandestine M42 basement, the art school and the Kissing Gallery. Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for the advance copy of this enjoyable book.