This book was not really for me and I ended up DNFing it around 18 percent. While the cover was stunning, It was a little bit too confusing for me with the multiple perspectives/timelines and therefore I could not finish it. I would however like to thank netgallery and the author for providing me an arc in exchange for an honest review.

I tried to read this book. I finished it. It was just ok. It did not grab my heart with its plot like other books, too basic for me. 3.5 stars for me. It needed mire character development and stringer storyline. Things were too rushed for me sometimes.

I really enjoyed the description of the book but sadly it didn't live up to the hype. I enjoyed how it read like a fairytale but it just didn't feel original and it was kind dpof confusing to read.

This book did not work for me. It felt very choppy and rush, and I was so bogged down reading endless descriptions that didn't mean anything to the story. I enjoy descriptions that help me to visualize what is happening in the story, but I kept getting all these visuals that seemed to mean nothing to the plot. It was a bit exhausting to read. I do absolutely love the cover though!

I was provided a gifted copy of this book for free. I am leaving my review voluntarily.

I wanted to love this plot, but it was a dozen or so chapters until we got to the main plot and it proceed to move at a glacial pace for me. The characters were interesting and the plot was unique but it took me forever to finish this book because I knew it wasn't going to resolved anytime soon.

I read the synopsis to this and so badly wanted to love it. All the things that interest me seemed perfectly rolled up in this book. I picked it up and had re read pages multiple times as my thoughts drifted. I liked the idea of 2 timelines but they in no way seemed cohesive. I just couldn't get into this book at all. I DNF at 25%

This was a ok book. Nothing that wow me, but it was nice.
It has that fairy tale vibe, and it reminded me at a Beauty and the Best. It is a sin off.
It was something different.
3 stars.

This was a beautiful tale inspired by the old Grim Fairy Tales. The setting although standard was beautifully described and I enjoyed reading the plot and the characters. A really great debut novel!

Dnf @ 24%

I really hate dnfing books especially ones I get for review but I just couldn’t keep going. This had a really good premise but the execution was just not there. The insta love was not done well and there is a trigger warning for suicide. I didn’t like how that was handled. This was just not for me

This was a so-so book, not the best, but not the worst. From the blurb, I got a Beauty and the Beast vibe, with true love breaking a curse. However, I felt like this book was a bit ambitious in trying to fit in different fairy tales, including Rumpelstiltskin showing up and some aspects of his tale involving straw to gold.
Additionally, I felt like this was a draft that needed a bit more polish, another set of eyes to really make it shine. Some of the "telling not showing" was off putting and I found it difficult to connect with Kathryn and Jacob, especially Jacob in the early chapters.

A story that started well, but as it turned the pages, it began to lose its way.

With an end completely removed from what was raised at the beginning, there was an attempt with the return of some characters in the last pages but in any case a very different plot was felt.

Just couldn’t get into this book. As mentioned by others, writing was off, and I found it very difficult to follow. Great premise but overall execution wasn’t good.

This book was received as an ARC from GenZ Publishing - Zenith Publishing in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

Such an enticing book with a very attractive plot. I loved how Genevieve Jane introduced each character and intertwined it with a popular fairy tale to describe the love and conflict between Kathryn and Jacob and how they need each other more than ever to survive this journey and break this curse and fix the mess Jacob has got himself into. This book reminded me a lot of The Book Jumper and Jumanji all in one. I was glued to each page from beginning to end and could not take my eyes off of it. It was like looking at an attractive man from a distance without him seeing you and when the book was finished, he disappeared.

We will consider adding this title to our YA collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

Like everyone else who read this book, I DNF'd it pretty quickly. The pacing was off, the writing felt so childish, and there were too many side stories and characters (especially the mini one in the beginning) that seemed like it was going nowhere, or had nothing to do with the rest of the story. I love everything fairytale and Grimm's Brothers, but this was seriously disappointing.

“This was not the forever I was looking for.”
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I have received an advanced reader copy thanks to netgalley. Let me start this saying that this story had so much potential but it definitely needed more editing. I found most things very confusing, time passes and we don’t actually know what happens in between.. things are quite rushed and feelings are not developed in a good way. Nonetheless I have been able to feel a connection with Jacob and Kathryn, especially because Kathryn reminds me of myself; indeed she loves studying and reading as much as I do. When she meets Jacob she immediately feels there’s something between them but he is her teacher and she doesn’t want to screw up her carrier for a love that could go wrong. On his end Jacob is disillusioned, he thinks he’ll never find love because it has been stripped from him too many times. The only love he knows is the one for his stories because he is the great Jacob Grimm and his tales are known by everyone on earth. When he meets Kathryn he really thinks he has found the one that could break his curse, but he is afraid. During his life he has tried many times to find his happy ending, the problem is that he infiltrated in stories that were not his own. He actually lives his fairytales like Cinderella and Snow White and every time he thinks:”she is the one”, the girl in question falls for another one. Maybe the moral is that you cannot force love, you cannot live a fairytale that is not your story, you must find your happy ending by your own. The witch that cursed him is a very interesting character, she grieves deeply for the loss of her daughter and she grieves so bad that she cannot see it’s not actually Jake’s fault and that nonetheless he is not the same man anymore.. because even if he has been damned, thanks to his curse he has learned a lot of things and he is finally ready for true love.

A Love Across Time by Genevieve Jane sounded so intriguing with a gorgeous cover, but once I started reading, I struggled to finish it. The story seemed lacking, and the plot did not pull me in.

DNF, and I'm so sad about it. The cover and the blurb really sucked me in, but the story itself is... not it. There are two timelines, one dimensional characters, confusing storylines, and the 20% or so that I read needed a heavy edit. The premise is there, but unfortunately, this one didn't deliver.

✨A Love Across Time✨

Thank you to netgalley, the publisher and the author for sending me an e-arc.

To me, DNF-ing a book is a cardinal sin. I hate it and I try to push through but sadly after a few weeks I have to concede. I dnf at 23% 😔

I want to start by saying, the premise of the book is what drew me to it and I was so excited to read it. Not to mention that cover is absolutely stunning😍

For me, it was a bit all over the place. I’m not one to shy away from multiple povs/timelines but there was far too much going on for me to be able to make much sense of it, add in that there were multiple fairy tales seemingly at play it was just too much and I couldn’t keep up with the story. I may try and go back to it at a later date but for now I have to move on. I really hope other people will enjoy this more than i did.

*SPOILER*
I found the suicide that triggers a series of events within the book to be quite distasteful and honestly it put me off.

This book is one of those books that you read the synopsis of and you know you have to check it out. I absolutely loved the concept of this book and the storyline. I enjoyed how the author messed with the timelines without confusing the reader.
In these aspects, I really did like the book however, the writing falls short. It was very mechanically written and not consistent. For example, many characters would say one thing and then in the next paragraph do the exact opposite. While this is completely valid with an inner monologue provided, there was none in this case. This made it a bit hard to keep up with what's happening.

I feel that the book would have been so much more enjoyable if it had more descriptive writing with greater insight into the characters. That being said, I really admire the originality of the concept of the book and would like to see more.

Completely different!

A Love Across Time is an absolutely different book. The characters and storyline are completely unique to it. For example the witch and all actions are almost unexpected. One would like to make her the ultimate evil but she turns out to be a character that is just affected by the evil as much as are others.

The unpredictability of the novel at the end is commendable. Just when you think you know how it ends, Genevieve Jane hits you with another twist.

However, the narrating could be a little more fluid as it appears to be disjointed and the story telling. As a result, it really detracts from the story and spoils all the beauty of the book.