I’ve been a huge fan of Kelley Armstrong since her Darkest Powers series and this is no exception. The story is great and I loved the characters. As always, her writing style is a breeze to read. Looking forward to the sequels!

A haunted manor, a time slip, a budding friendship, Thirne Manor has it all. Until a tragedy strikes and the manor is closed up. Bronwyn returns 20 years later and rediscovers it all! Loved it!

LOVED this book! A huge fan of gothic historical reads I had to grab this. While I found it to be a slow build the first few chapters I was pleasantly surprised by how much I became addicted to reading the story. I LOVED The characters and the romance was everything!!!! There is nothing not to love in this book. 4.5 stars. I look forward to reading more books 📚this author.

I love a good gothic, even more when it ends with an HEA. There were some minor plotholes in this time-slip gothic romance but I loved it so much that I don't care at all. One character is in the present, the other in the past. They grew up spending summers together (via a time slip, she can travel back and forth from one room in the house they both live in) but she was sent to a mental rehab facility when her family learned that she was seeing "ghosts" and they were separated until she inherited the house as an adult. Now they're reunited, but someone is trying to keep them apart and scare off or murder the heroine.


There were so many things I liked, such as the ongoing mysteries, the fact that she was a widow but it's very clear she loved her late husband and that neither of the protagonists begrudged her that happiness, and the way the MC in the past just takes her claims about modern stuff at face value.


It's atmospheric and deeply romantic and everything I wanted it to be. I'm eagerly anticipating the followup because who doesn't like a murder mystery, a bog and a woman returned from the dead?

The author describes A Stitch in Time as a “time-travel-Victorian-haunted-house-mystery-romance,” and it hits all the right notes. History professor Bronwyn inherits the Gothic manor where she lived as a child, and as a summer project embarks upon its renovation. As a child, she was able to step into the manor’s past, where she befriended William, the next heir, until present-day adults decided she was mentally ill and locked her up. So her return is fraught with memories – was William real? – and ghosts that seem to be attempting to communicate with her. Although she’s reluctant to accept it, the time “stitch” keeps returning her to William’s time. So many years have now gone by, and yet the old affection quickly blossoms into something more. Or would, if the ghosts weren’t increasingly importunate. Someone was murdered in William’s time – but who was the victim? And who did it?

The more deeply Bronwyn searches, the more dangerous the secrets she uncovers.

All these elements are handled with such superb skill and pacing that I kept turning the pages long after I should have turned out my light. I’m a sucker for a good love story, but when it comes packaged with tantalizing mystery and the wisdom of older-and-wiser characters, the result was a highly satisfying time-travel-and-so-forth adventure.

This book is written by one of my all time favorite authors Kelley Armstrong. I was so excited to request this book and I am so incredibly glad that I did. This book is a departure from many of Kelley Armstrongs other series but in an awesome way it’s a fun time travel ghost mystery.

Totally loved it so fun and unusual. I recommend it to anyone looking for a light read with a ghostly twist.

I received this book from NetGalley for an honest review.

ARC received from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Kelley Armstrong has been one of my favorite authors ever since I was a teen. This book felt so different from her others that it felt like a whole different author wrote it. Despite that feeling I really got into the book enjoying the plot, characters, and the world in general. This is a book I can see myself returning to someday in the future just for a light read when times get tough.

I couldn't get into this one. It was a struggle, which is sad because I'm a HUGE fan of gothic romances. Usually love Kelley Armstrong, but this was a bit disappointing for me. I was addicted to her Bitten series. That's why I requested this ARC.
Thank you to the author and the publisher for the ARC. I am sorry I couldn't give it any honest praise. The romance was tepid and the pacing was very slow. The cover is lovely, though.

This book didn’t know what it wanted to be. Was it a steamy historical romance or was it a gothic mystery? Bronwyn’s time travel romance with William Thorne is kept separate from the ghostly hauntings of the current timeline for too much of the novel. The two stories finally converge, but the ultimate climax felt unrealistic and unearned. While I can appreciate the separate elements of each, they never came together to create a complete whole.

I did not like Bronwyn, particularly her decisions in regards to her relationship. She has all the power in the relationship as she is the only one to time travel. She wants to be with William, but not give up anything in return. Every relationship requires some give and take, and it felt like all she did was take when, how, and where she wanted. I prefer a more balanced approach – both between romantic partners and thematic elements – that this book could not deliver.

DNF'ed at 50 %. I gave this a try but it was just not for me. The pacing felt off and I didn't enjoy the writing style.
I received an ARC of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Oh I really enjoyed this? The romance was a bit softer than I expected but definitely still enjoyable (the letter passing! Notes!). I didn’t expect the mystery twist but am rather glad I didn’t—it was interesting!

A young modern girl living in a restored Victorian mansion in England inadvertently finds a way to time travel to the 19th century where she finds solace and companionship in the friendship with a young lord of the same manor. The home it seems has a portal to the past that only she can use. Over many subsequent summers, Bronwyn and William, form a lasting bond. As teenagers they fall in love but are separated by a tragic event that forces her to flee her home for many years. Thus sets the stage for Bronwyn's return in her mid thirties to reclaim her ancestral home upon inheritance and to find William again. A Stitch in Time is a strange mismash of time travel, historical romance, mystery, Gothic, and ghost story, and I ended up feeling that it never quite coalesces into a cohesive narrative. One result is that for much of the book, there are distinctly different tales being told.

I'll start with the ghost narrative since that perhaps constitutes the largest segment of this book. I've been much spoiled by Simone St. James to find the ghost story here particularly groundbreaking. Bronwyn has always been able to see dead people living in the house and on the grounds of Thorne Manor. We don't really know why she is singled out for this skill in life. In any case, the Victorian ghosts wander hallways and hover in doorways; they float around the property at will, and from time to time, they try to communicate with Bronwyn, who is preternaturally at ease with their presence in her modern life. However, one of the ghosts is particularly malevolent and causes a tragedy that puts Brownyn into a downward spiral for many years. Brownyn's connection with ghosts is something that she alone contends with since no one really believes her, including her lover, William, who is firmly opposed to supernatural nonsense and anti-rational thinking. So, what does the ghost narrative have to do with the romance? For that, we need to wait until the final chapters, creating in effect a very lopsided story.

The historical romance here - the center that holds the entire novel together - is serviceable. William is a stereotypical dashing, yet sullen and reserved Gothic hero. Multiple unexplained deaths and missing people on his estate lay the groundwork for village gossip that the mad lord of Thorne Manor is a serial killer. Only Bronwyn, his mysterious 21st-century lover, sees the real William - dreamy, shy, responsible, considerate, great in bed, etc. She finds her way back to him via the portal and they pick up where they left off before she vanished as a young woman. But while the romance is fine, I had questions about the author's attempts to create a feminist Victorian hero who is happy that his lover has a career of her own and wants independence for days and even months to travel around in the 21st century fulfilling her academic duties as a history professor.

Time travel in this book presents maybe the most laborious aspect of the author trying to use a clunky plot device to create obstacles for the main couple. There are many rules about how Bronwyn can travel through the "stitch in time," and some of the rules are quite obviously flimsy and illogical. William, for unexplained reasons, cannot travel to the 21st century, though he assures Bronwyn that if he could, he would happily give up his 19th-century customs and adapt to her needs. Despite the author's nods to historical accuracy, at times the couple's discussions of time travel feel more like a modern couple negotiating a long-distance relationship. The resolution of the ghost story, the time travel obstacles, and the romance's resolution solve some issues but create just as many in a conclusion that left me with raised eyebrows.

So, I'm giving rounding up and giving this three stars because I did enjoy trying to unravel the ghost mystery, and I ended up getting a number of hunches wrong in that respect. Otherwise, this book is not very memorable and there are better supernatural writers and much better historical romance writers writing today.

I am so excited that Kelley Armstrong wrote a time travel romance! It is not set in any of her established worlds, and is a great read. My favorite thing about this story was the method of time travel, which I won't spoil. This was a quick read and very entertaining.

Author Kelley Armstrong departs from her usual novels to present a time travel ghost mystery. Bronwyn was able to travel in time to visit her friend William when she was a child. Now that she has inherited her aunts house, she returns to partly see if she still can go back in time. ARC from NetGalley.

Bronwin, am I right? Wow, what a book! A ghostly, time-travel murder-mystery? I never knew I needed this in my life until I opened this book, and now I am wondering if I'll ever get it again. I found the writing to be phenomenal and the dynamic between all the characters was so intriguing! I held out hope throughout that a certain person wasn't the murderer, and I couldn't put it down until I figured out what was going on! I read 71% of the book in one day, One day!
While at one point I thought I'd knock the rating down a bit due to the sexual descriptions - that isn't something I enjoy reading about, I just couldn't do it because the rest of the story was so good!
The writing style, character dynamics, the sleuth. The fun, quirky neighbors, small=town feel, The mystery of the past still being talked about over a pint in the present - it was so well written!
I've never heard of Kelley Armstrong before, but I'll guarantee this isn't the last time I read something she's written.
Thank you to Subterranean Press & NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I adore Kelley Armstrong’s other books and I love time travel stories, so when I received this book I was excited to see if it could possibly live up to my expectations. It did. Bronwyn is the strong female character I prefer, and William is a charismatic love interest. The plot is well developed and the twist works well. As much as I would love a series, the story is wrapped up nicely at the end. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

Something a little different for the author and not the kind of book I usually read, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I tend to stay away from time travel books because I'm always left with an uncomfortable sense of loss when one of them must give up their "real" lives for them to be together, but the resolution of the time travel aspect here was entirely satisfying.

I loved the relationship between Bronwyn and William, both their snark and their obvious chemistry. The atmosphere of the Yorkshire countryside is practically a character in the book and sets the stage beautifully. The mystery surrounding the ghosts in the house kept me engaged and drove the story forward. I was baffled right up to when the murderer was revealed. Definitely a book that made me sad that it was over!

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me access to this book in exchange for an honest review. Disclaimer: I love Kelley Armstrong. She's one of my favorite authors with her Cainsville and Rockton series. But "A Stitch In Time" looked...different. A gothic, time traveling ghost story? Um, that could go horribly wrong. I am so glad to say that I absolutely loved it. This was unlike anything I have ever read before and I became hooked immediately. This is the story of Bronwyn, a widowed woman returning to her deceased relatives manor to take care of the estate. She hasn't been there since something terrible happened to her in her youth. She moved on from that and had an entirely different life with her husband. But she falls back into life in manor....and also into another world that she thought she had imagined from her youth. I don't want to say a lot more because I knew nothing much going in and I'm grateful for that. However I will say that this book was spooky. There are multiple ghosts and unfolding their mysteries was intriguing. As I closed the book I thought it was a stand alone however I have just come across a novella taking place after this novel in a Christmas anthology called "Under a Winter Sky". I literally squealed.

This was a lovely time travel, gothic romance, ghost story. It's a departure from the type of story you normally get from Kelley Armstrong, but it was just as entertaining as you expect. I really liked that the main characters we slightly older. The world building in both timelines is excellent, especially the way Thorne Manor is the center point. It allows the reader to compare and contrast lifestyle, culture, and gives a better grasp of the different times. The mystery kept me guessing until the end. Numerous times I thought I had figured out what was going on only to second guess that idea a moment later. If you're looking for a book that beautifully mixes story elements, and ultimately leaves you smiling pick this title up.

This book was just what I needed! It had a bit of romance, para-normal activity, quirky characters, time travel, moors, English countryside and so much more.

It is book #1 in a series and I will definitely be watching for book #2!

Many thanks to Netgalley and Subterranean Press for this advanced readers copy. This book released October 31, 2020.