I received an ARC of this book through NetGalley from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I was not prepared for the twists of this book! Or the number of tears I shed. I typically don't cry while reading, but this book hit different (in a good way). This quote alone broke me, “For anyone who’s ever had a Marley. Never let her go.”

I was in awe of the writing and how flawless and effortless Daughtry and Lippincott made it seem. It was hard for me to put this book down. I didn't want their story to end but I was glad about the way it did.

While I typically shy away from contemporary reads, I was glad that I took a chance at this book. I loved the main characters, Kyle and Marley, and watching they grow throughout the story. I think this book speaks volumes and could help many other young adults struggling with the same situation.

I cannot wait to see what these two amazing authors do next!

Another hit from Daughtry. I devoured this book. The depth that is created in her writing sucks you in and you can’t put it down. The characters are deep are relatable. The story gave me all the feels.

This book is not your typical YA love story. It is so much more! On the night of their high school graduation, Kyle and Kimberly are in a horrible car accident. When Kyle wakes up, he learns that Kimberly is dead and he suffered a brain injury. Then he meets Marley, who is suffering from a loss of her own. Together, they slowly learn to live and love.

All This Time is a modern fairy tale about love and second chances.  Kyle is desperately in love with Kim, and desperately heartbroken when she breaks up with him.  When he wakes up in the hospital after a tragic car accident and finds that Kim is gone, he hits bottom.  He suffered a brain injury in the accident and that, or life, make him see Kim everywhere until he feels like he's going insane.  Kyle also is brought low by the guilt he feels from the accident and he's not afraid to wallow in it, a lot.  Enter Marley, a young woman who has experienced tragedy herself.  She helps pull Kyle out of his sorry and teaches him what it is like to live a real life again.  People don't believe their love is real, but they know better and the end is satisfying.  

Not a very happy book to start.  If your teen is reading this keep lines open for discussion.  The end wraps everything up nicely though.  Lippincott and Daughtry have created interesting, if not lovable characters, and deal with trauma in a compassionate, real way.  Fans of their other book - Five Feet Apart - will enjoy All This Time, as will readers of emotional YA fiction.  .  I am grateful to have read the ARC.

*** ARC provided by NetGalley for a free honest review***
I requested this ARC of this book be ours I absolutely loved 5 feet apart by the same author duo. They definitely hit this one out of the park as well. It took me a long time to write this review because I felt like I kept giving away the important parts of the story. The book deals with teenage loss and grief and friendship. It’s loaded with twists and turns sad parts, happy parts and was so good I just don’t want to give it away for you!

I have never read Five Feet Apart, but now I know that if you loved that book and you love a story about hopeless romantics? You will not be disappointed with this title. True love, friendship, and a twist that maybe I should have seen coming, but did NOT.

Looking for a little fairy-tale inspired escapism to soothe your soul during these troubled times? This is the book for you. Full of dreamscape, "All This Time" takes on grief and loss using fate and love as a cure-all, unabashedly.

While the book definitely takes a softer approach to grief and loss, focusing more on Kyle and Harley's reconstruction, it does look the trauma inflicted on young folks at sensitive times in their lives. But this story is first and foremost a fairy-tale love story, so don't go making it out to be something its not and blaming the writers when it don't go your way.

Go in looking for a little pixie dust inspiration and you'll have a hard time putting this book down.

A fascinating and unique teen romance with more twists than any thriller could deliver. When Kyle and his girlfriend end their perfect relationship on high school graduation night, a car crash leaves Kyle devastated and bereft. With the help of a mysterious stranger, Kyle learns that life can give you a second chance, if you're brave enough to take it. 
In All This Time, we are given a deftly written portrayal of grief from the point of view of teenagers. Teenagers who love and grieve in equally large measures. Strained friendships, struggles to communicate, and the overwhelming pressure of grief is played out in realistic detail. 
Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read and review this title. All opinions and mistakes are my own.

Full thoughts can be read at the link provided: https://twincitiesgeek.com/2020/10/all-this-time-is-oversaturated-with-plot-twists-and-cliches/

All This Time is a heavy hitting contemporary in a deceptively packaged as the cover is gorgeous while the story is messy, complex and real.

Now for me, its evocative prose and scenes were a plus in my book. As I have said in times past, I like books and stories that make me feel things, and there isn’t a steep learning curve where my wheelhouse is concerned. Some looking for happier reads might find it too heavy. You’ve been warned.

Our protagonist Kyle, former quarterback on his Varsity high school team, is so sure that he had life figured out. While at times he could be a little angsty- what YA male character isn’t- I found Kyle’s voice/author’s tone compelling and relatable. While there should be TWs for grief at the death of a loved one, survivor’s guilt, discussion of suicide, etc… the authors treat issues of grief and loss sensitively and honestly.

There were a handful of twists that I wasn’t expecting for a contemporary romance and there was even a point where I wondered what could possibly happen next.

Overall, we adored this book, gave it 5 stars and recommend to anyone who loves a solid social issue contemporary novel..

The authors of Five Feet Apart have taken their affinity for writing fairytales and crafted a page-turning narrative that will return hope to your heart.
Kyle and Kimberly were supposed to be together forever.

Then she broke up with him. Again.

But that’s not the most tragic thing that happens in the first chapter of All This Time, which sends Kyle on a difficult journey of self-discovery, acceptance, and healing.

You know … everything most great YA romances have on their ingredients list. Complete with a manic pixie dream girl who’s far too likable to disappear beneath the weight of the trope that surrounds her name.

If I’m being honest, I fully intended to give myself a week or so to chip away at yet another whimsical romance — I blame 2020’s ongoing quest to snuff out every spark of hope that’s had the potential to rekindle my love life, but I suppose there are much more pressing matters to use a book to escape from …
So when I read the entirety of All This Time in one sitting on an otherwise lonely Friday night — oops? — I knew I’d stumbled headfirst into a story I wouldn’t soon forget.

Perhaps my inevitable attraction to young adult romance stems from my love of John Green novels, arguably some of the most important books to have shaped my own ongoing journey as a writer. Love it or hate it, the manic pixie dream girl trope does one thing right: It almost always creates a narrative that makes you feel like you’re spinning in good kinds of circles as you turn from one page to the next.

After losing Kimberly, Kyle struggles to find his footing. And as you might expect — like magic — Marley appears just when he needs her to materialize before his eyes.

But don’t judge this tale before you make your full way through it. As I discovered sometime around midnight, there’s a twist about three-fourths of the way through that will prompt you to look up from the page and ask, out loud — “What did I just read?” — yes, out loud, to yourself, in the middle of the night.

One measure of a good book is, after all, how often you talk to it as if that will ease all your concerns about the pages to come.
When you read a lot of books, it’s not very often a twist can still surprise and delight you as much as this one did for me.

Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott are brilliant storytellers with a knack for perfectly balancing heartbreak and hope. Every time you think things are finally turning around for each character, lightning strikes. But things always end in a major key — they wouldn’t call them fairytales if they didn’t.

There truly is no better time to escape into a dream-like romance where love can’t break your heart, tragedy can’t steal your joy, and everyone gets the happy ending they deserve.

If you’ve read Five Feet Apart, you already know that a good love story can’t thrive without its fair share of twists and turns. There will be sad moments. There will be happy ones. There will be moments you’ll question whether or not the story might go the way you’re expecting … or somewhere completely off the familiar path.

But the whole time, you’re not thinking about your own lost love or your real-world worries. Which is exactly what a romance novel should accomplish, at the end of it all.

Sometimes it takes a modern-day fairytale to remind you it’s OK to believe in love, in the happily ever afters that some days seem so difficult to find.

We all deserve a happy ending. Even if it comes to us in the form of a book.

AAAHHHH! Better than I'd hoped - I was so captured by Kyle's story I powered through the book to find out how it ends and already am looking forward to rereading it. A couple twists were predictable but one had me flipping back a few pages to slow down and read them again, just to see if I"d missed something. What a fun book to read - grown-ups of teens might liken/compare it to "What Dreams May Come" from the late 1990s. I can't wait to get a paper copy for my classroom to share with students - a male protagonist makes this story appealing to a wider number of readers. So, so good! Thanks to #NetGalley for the opportunity to preview #AllThisTime by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott. I loved it!

This book wasn't written for me, a 36-year-old woman, it was written for a teenage girl. And, a teenage girl would really like it. As an adult, jaded by life experience and reading too many YA books, I found the writing bland and juvenile. The book has a "twist" but it was pretty predictable. It is a sort of impossible love story, shrouded in tragedy, but again, I didn't feel anything because I've read this book 100 times before.

However, for my classroom library, this is a book I would definitely purchase. I can think of the exact reader that this would appeal to. Teenage girls who aren't as old and jaded as me would enjoy this story and likely not find the twist predictable. The romance is sweet and pretty innocent. I like that it was told by the male protagonist instead of the girl, too. Kids that liked Five Feet Apart would definitely enjoy this.

Having been a huge fan of Five Feet Apart, I knew I had to read All This Time and see what other wonderful story Daughtry and Lippincott came up with this time. I was not disappointed.

This story is such a good read. It’s fast too. It follows Kyle as his life is completely upended on graduation night. He has to bounce back from loss in many forms and find out who he is and who he wants to become. He finds a little help along the way.

Kyle’s character is so open. I love how hard he loves and how deeply he cares about his friends and girlfriend from the immediate start. I actually wonder if some feel that as smothering at times. And when everything he had planned out for himself is ripped away, he does not know what to do. This book takes you to a very dark place and Daughtry and Lippincott write it so well, as proven in their first novel. This book covers all that dirty stuff people don’t want to talk about. Depression. Anxiety. Grief. Heartache. It’s the hard stuff and not the feel good stuff, but this book rips you up with it. I love the side characters and was super suspicious of Marley in the beginning. Her character was a breath of fresh air though. She reminded me of some of my friends.

Overall this book was great. I devoured it and would read it again today. The characters are these thick, juicy onions with layers of personality to peal back, the plot line is rich and gritty, and its absolutely not what you expect most of the book. What a rollercoaster of emotions this caused! Definitely pick up a copy and see for yourself.

I received an ARC of All This Time through NetGalley and was excited to dive into this sweet and heartbreaking YA.

Overall, I enjoyed this. I know some folx think 3 stars means "meh" but for me it's an "I am not mad I read it, I enjoyed it, and many others will probably love it". I didn't love it for a few reasons, but want to also share the things I did enjoy.

Kyle Lafferty and his girlfriend Kimberly are the teenage power couple - together for years, everyone's favorite couple, everything goes right for them. Until a car accident leaves Kyle with a severe brain injury and Kimberly dead. After Kyle wakes up, he is forced to live without his girlfriend, while also struggling with taking the shine away from a relationship that might've not been perfect. While he's spiraling, Kyle meets Marley who helps him come back to life - and really they help each other come back to life. But a deep secret could threaten both of their progress and their happiness together.

I absolutely adored the portrayal of grief, which seems so weird to say but ultimately grief isn't always portrayed as the life-altering thing that it is. Both Marley and Kyle are living but their grief means that their life is always on hold, they are always judging their own happiness, and they can never fully thrive. I also loved the general vivid imagery, the beauty that flowers bring to the story, and the relationship that Kyle and Marley built. What I struggled with the most was some of the back and forth of Kyle and Sam's relationship (and Kyle and Marley's). The book is definitely YA and I think I might've liked it a bit more if it was an adult book - no shame to YA at all but I think that folx a bit younger than me might connect with this more than I did.

This was close to 4 starts primarily for the twist and the ending, which I was not expecting. There is a magical realism to All This Time that I was completely immersed in and I can imagine that make folx will really love this one.

**4.5 Stars**

On the night of his High School graduation, Kyle thinks he has his whole life planned out perfectly- that is until one ugly truth is revealed and everything spirals out of control. Now, after having survived  a deadly accident, Kyle is not sure how to move on or even if he deserves to. When he makes a new friend in Marley who is dealing with her own grief, Kyle feels like he has someone who understands him, and can maybe help him heal.

Keep in mind that this was a cute fast read, it just doesn't have the same emotional upheaval that I experienced and expected from the author's first book, Five Feet Apart. That being said, this story is about grief and loss but it didn't make me sad of want to sob (like the previous book did), instead this was more a hopeful story about healing and redemption. BUT the real heart (pun intended) of the story was the epic romance that crosses all kinds of boundaries and expectations, a true love that not everyone can have and it may melt your heart. Let's just say that Kyle really is the best kind of hopeless romantic and he is relationship goals.

I was going to give the book a solid 4 but then there was this super surprising twist I never saw coming and I loved the direction the story took which instantly bumped my review up to 4.5 stars, but that is all you get out of me to avoid any spoilers. Overall this was a really charming YA romance full of feels and insightful personal growth as well as the best HEA.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. 

I loved Five Feet Apart so when I saw another book by the same author, I was a little nervous about getting it.  You never know if another book is going to be as good as the first one you loved.  I shouldn't have worried about All This Time.  It was such a fantastic book.  The characters were well developed and the storyline flowed wonderfully.  Every time I thought that this book was just going to be a young adult rom-com book, a new twist would pop up and change my mind.  You definitely need to be sure to have plenty of time to read because you will not want to put it down.

I went through an intense period in my reading life where all I wanted to read was books where the protagonists had some kind of catastrophic trauma, injury, illness, or death to overcome. It's been a while since I have found a book that hits those marks and remains hopeful and a little fluffy. All This Time is that book! A good follow up to Six Feet Apart.   Plus, the cover is beautiful,

This is one of those books that I am walking the edge of the line between love and hate.

Kyle and Kim’s characters seem to be believable teenagers in a relationship; typical fights and make-ups and individual flaws. When Marley comes on the scene, I really started to see how Kyle was less of a cute, suffering teenager and more of an obsessive boyfriend with very bad relationship habits. His main faults where kind of glossed over from one relationship into the next.

That said, it was also fun watching them interact with each other not as a couple, but as friends. Little things like going to the park to feed ducks and eating hotdogs was way more enjoyable than the forced romance. YA really needs to learn that a new romantic relationship isn’t the key to getting over a lost romantic relationship. The ‘friends’ Kyle and Marley were much more authentic than the ‘couple’ Kyle and Marley. 

The big struggle is the last third of the plot. At some point an author has to know when to stop, and some just don’t. At this point it started to get ridiculous and headed into plot line overkill. I was so aggravated that a good story was taking a harsh nosedive. I loved the first couple of twists the book had taken, but when they kept piling up the effect was ruined, and at the very end it kind of started adding a supernatural element.

Overall, I have such conflicted thoughts on ‘All This Time’. It’s a quick and easy read, great for a weekend, but it’s still up in the air if it was actually came to a satisfying end.

Have you ever had a book that you were so inside the story, so with the characters, so tethered to every word that was uttered, every feeling conveyed, every moment captured...that you were simply wrecked by book's end?  I mean like in tears, sighing with relief or acceptance, and quite honestly needing a few moments at the very least before you could even think about wrangling your thoughts into something coherent, or ,goodness forbid, reading something else?  Yeah, that's me with this book.

I will admit to having WATCHED their previous collaboration, Five Feet Apart, and having a very similar reaction to the film...but I never got around to reading the book.  I bought it with every intent of diving in, but with my reading schedule being a little booked at times, I haven't had the chance.  I totally regret not having read it at this moment because if it's half as good as this story, I'm totally missing out!

Kyle and Kimberly were a couple for as long as anyone could remember, which is especially long in today's world where some folks trade significant others like flavors of the week...but sometimes that familiarity, sometimes that constant togetherness, can make it hard for them to see themselves anymore.  The bomb drop on graduation night was epic...but the fallout would last SO much longer and affect so many lives in ways no one could possible imagine.  Throughout the ordeal, we get to know Kyle like never before, Kimberly more in depth, Sam beneath his jock-ish bravado, and Marley to the very core of her soul.  All those connections, all those life links are going to come into play at different times throughout the story, and no matter how insignificant they may seem in the moment, their importance is a matter of sanity or downward spiraling, looking back constantly or moving forward...quite literally life or death.

I can't say enough and yet I don't want to spoil it for you.  You deserve to experience it all for the first time too...untainted, uncertain, and yet fully involved.  So if this sounds like a story you may like, or perhaps you enjoyed the other book, make haste to clear your calendar for a read of this remarkable release.  It'll certainly remind you of the important things in life, and to treat each day like the present it is.