Usually, I love stories inspired by fairy tales, but this one was not one of them. The writing was put as if telling a story when we speak to children and that was okay. One of the aspects that made me DNF the story was the back and forth with several timelines from different characters. It was difficult to remember each character, especially when the character's name wasn't mentioned in the chapter, also making it difficult to connect with the story. So, I DNF at 20%. It didn't work for me.

<b>Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced reader copy of this book. All views and opinions in this review are my own </b>

The premise of this book is so good. Its the premise every fairy tale lover has been lookin for alas it was realy roughly executed. Following different timelines, fairytales and romanece <i> A Love
Across Time </i> follows Kathryn, a young women/ girl who is thrown into the Grimm storybook to break a curse for true love.

Jacob, our other main character, was interesting but his motives and drivers where shifting at times. The intention behind this character is so interesting still he did not convinve me, he felt one dimensional and he, in my opinion, was just throwing excuses at the air.
Kathryn was weird? we are told she's 2oish however she felt completly 16ish like she was one of those early 2000's YA characters, not that this is bad she just felt too inmature for the age and intentions... also their whole relationship felt like insta love.
While there were parts I enjoyed and have great potential some parts didnt made sense and just left me a little bit confused. I believe this could be and AMAZING story with a little bit more character development and editing.

I wanted to love it, I really really did and even though I finished it it was a little bit dull and long.
The author has an incredible idea. She just didn't execute it in a way that worked for me.

This book is quite the mystery to me because I have no idea who's supposed to be the intended audience.
The book claims Katelyn to be in her twenties but she behaves like a high school student. Other than that, she is probably the flatest character I've ever read about. She's so boring and annoying and at some point, I did not give a single thought to her anymore. Which is a bit problematic since she is the main character.
Jacob wasn't much better - self-centred and with no noteable character traits whatsoever.
Not to mention the worst thrope in a book, at least in my opinion: Instalove. Though this book requires a new word because this was even worse than Instalove.
The writing was... Childish and boring. The author took "show, don't tell" too literally and told absolutly nothing. It was constant showing and I grew annoyed of it incredibly fast.
This book has a nice cover and a great, great blurb, but the execution is not meeting the expectations.
I received a free copy by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you netgalley for giving me an earc of this book!!
So I abslutley loved the idea of the book I was intrigued since I read the description of it. I've loved fairy tales since I was a child so this book was a very good read for me. It felt like a retelling of all my favourite tales and it was so enjoyable. I may have had a problem with the main character Jacob I found him a little foolish to be honest and I hate foolish characters but still I adored his relationship with Kathryn I loved her so much. The writing style was a bit I don't know how to say it more simple than needed I had a little problem with that too but overall I could say that I enjoyed this and I hope to see more of jacob and Kathryn

Did not finish at 20%

The premise sounded so appealing! Romance and fairy tales, gorgeous cover… The first chapter reminded me of Rapunzel and Cinderella at the same time, it was so promising!

But the plot does not drag me in at all. I still can’t figure out exactly how the past and present timeline will be connected. I admit that I do not usually really enjoy books with two timelines, and this one is not an exception so it may be a better book for someone who usually enjoys this style. Also, the characters were just bland. Not bad, but I did not like them or cared about what would happen to them.

There are some parts with lots of useless details and some parts when a few hours seem to pass between one sentence and the other, it was confusing at times. The writing felt choppy and sadly I couldn’t make it past chapter 12.

I feel bad about not finishing a book, but I tried to read this one for two weeks and I only managed to read the first 60 pages or so.

This book was a DNF and the first one I’ve had in a long time. The writing was very choppy and all over the place. There were spelling errors throughout. The cover and description really drew me in but the writing did not do it for me. It was very hard to get into and the characters seem one dimensional with no growth through what I’ve read. This book needs some work and revising, it’s a good idea for a story just not written well at this time.

I really wanted to like this book. It has all the makings of a very interesting story, fairytales, time travel some romance. But it fell short. I got over the hopping from timeline to timeline, but there was so much of it that it was hard to connect with any one character. There comes a point in the story where Kathryn meets up with Grimm and he uses some hudoo to mess around with her memory. Then it's all insta love on her part and it felt rushed and not genuine. It bothered me that she basically got memory ruffied. At that point I skipped to the last chapter to see how it played out. The ending was ok, but again, it left me flat.

DNF at 18%

I try and avoid dnf’ing books as much as I can, but i had no motivation to continue reading this. The plot didn’t drag me in at all, and I was super confused as to how the two different timelines would connect. I’m normally not a fan of past/present timelines, and this book wasn’t an exception. I also didn’t really like or understand the characters, so this book was just a miss for me.

A Love Across Time lured me in with a book description of what seemed to be a perfect fairy tale romance. I found Jacob's character to be intriguing. At times I disliked him, and there were other times I cheered him on. He could seem callous one moment, and almost sweet the next. I didn't connect as well with Kathryn. Her character came across a little flat for me. It felt like she was dropped into the middle unexpectedly, and the author didn't dig deep enough for her character. It was like getting a quick glimpse of someone and being expected to fall in love at first sight.

While there were parts of the book I enjoyed - such as the imagery - I did find the constant jumps from past to present, to even further in the past, with a focus on multiple couples left me a bit dizzy. I applaud the author's attempt at not subjecting me to a large info dump when a new character came into play, but leaving a chapter about Rose only to jump into her mother's past, then leap forward again and focus on yet another character, made the story feel less cohesive. Even once the book moved on to other characters, it continued to hop all over the place. Other aspects were glossed over a little too much. We're told" about the curse on Jacob, but it felt like the author failed to show us how it affected him. I think the concept would have worked better if each part had been lengthened and the story broken up into two or three books.

I wanted to love it, but every new chapter seemed to pull me further from the story. The author has an incredible idea. She just didn't execute it in a way that would pull me in and make me wish the story never ended. Perhaps it's merely a case of a new-ish author who hasn't quite found her groove yet.

*Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read A Love Across Time. The review above is my honest opinion.

Thank you NetGalley & Genevieve Jane for sending me a copy of A Love Across Time. All thoughts & opinions are my own.

Now, let me start by saying as a Torontonian since birth I was so excited for the fact that the main character was from Toronto, so let's break it down all the way from the downtown core to 1800's Germany.

A love across time follows Kathryn, a young women who is sucked into the brother's Grimm storybook kept in her attic to break a curse for true love. The book spans 4 different time periods, one in modern day Toronto and 3 in old Germany. I am all for breaking curses, frolicking through fields and ballgowns but there were some aspects I was... less than thrilled about. I was excited for the concept of the book but in execution the romance plot line felt rushed and not genuine. It was hard for me to empathise with the romance because I really was not the biggest fan of the love interest. At some points I really did just want to slap Kathryn's love interest in the face and scream JUST TELL HER WHAT'S GOING ON!! STOP BEING SO STUPID!! HOW DO U GET SUCH COOL DRESSES I WANT ONE!! (okay maybe that last one was a bit biased... but my point stands!).

I really feel like there was so much potential but there was just soooo much happening and I feel like the main story really got lost and didn't reach the level I was hoping for and I know a writer as descriptive and conceptual as Jane can fulfill (yes, I'll admit I might have even gotten more invested in one of the side stories then the main one but that was because I really am a sucker for a cool powerful witch).

I think for a first book and publishing this was a really fascinating concept (definitely not simple or overdone like many authors choose to do for their first piece before branching out). I enjoyed seeing little hints of the author in Kathryn's character (it's no surprise that in the publishing industry, most first author's work are just like their dream lives and heroins and a reflection of themselves). I just really wish we had more of a slowed down and paced out book, a lot of plot points would have had a better time shining if the book was slowed down and branched over several books or the novel had been a bit longer. I really always do love reviewing books from new authors and am interested to see how her work evolves and grows from this point.

Total Review: 3.8 / 5

I recieved an e-arc of this from netgalley for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The stories has two different time lines, one set in Germany 1800s and the other set in Toronto 2012.

We meet Jacob, a young man who wants to write and travel the world, not marry and take over the farm. He's fallen for the one woman he can't have, the girl his parents took in alongside her brother, Giselle.

We also meet Kathryn, a scholar who has just gotten accepted into a masters programme.

When Katheryn is going about her day, reading, studying and talking to her cat, she bumps into a mysterious man on the street. " “Not a worry at all,” he smiled. His voice sounded warm and kind. His gaze held hers, “A pleasure bumping into you actually." He tucked a stray hair behind her ear and his hand brushed her cheek."

I really enjoyed reading the different time lines, reading the past and present was a nice touch that added to the story. The cover is stunning. I found the writing to be on the more descriptive side but this wasn't a good thing. It ended up being a tell story, the writing was chopping and we followed the character through everything from where and why her parents were going on vacation to what book she was reading and why. I found that the descriptions had no real significance to the story for the most part. I could get over the okay writing, I don't mind that if I can enjoy a story, which I sadly didn't.

I got to chapter 12 before I DNF this book. The writing was too choppy and I found the storyline was just too slow and didn't really see it taking off anytime soon even though are main two characters had met. For me it was just too slow paced and I couldn't get into it.

When I first read the blurb on this book, I was immediately interested. I love fairytale reimaginings/retellings and the nineteenth history - and this book has both. I loved the idea and enjoyed how the author wove in different bits from different fairytales throughout the story. I also enjoyed the chapters that alternated between time periods. Unfortunately, that's about where my enjoyment ended.

This book had a lot of potential, but for me, something felt off in the writing style. It felt like the author was doing a lot of telling instead of showing me what was happening, which stopped me from feeling a strong connection with any of the characters. It also made some parts of the book feel abrupt. For instance, the author talks about one of the characters having some friends, then them growing apart, and then having none. I would have felt this more organically if I was shown it happening instead of telling me in three throwaway lines. (Not to mention, I didn't really feel for her since I never really 'saw' her having friends anyway.) There were a couple other minor problems that would benefit from some attention but that weren't horrible. (Ex. Grimm inviting 'the whole country' to a party. And how they reference Germany. Germany wasn't a country when the story begins and was a 'Confederation' for another major part. 'Present-day Germany' or something similar would work better - and create a bit more intrigue.)

I saw one reviewer liken this to a first or second draft. That notion isn't far from what I felt. All the major parts were there but it just hadn't been cleaned up and tightened.

I had high expectations for this book and feel like it could still be a good book with some editing and rewrites here and there. I found the idea original and interesting. I look forward to new ideas from the author.

(I received this book for free in exchange for a review from NetGalley. The opinions are my own.)

2.25/5 stars!

When Jacob Grimm ended up being cursed by a witch, he tries to find love to free him from the curse. It takes modern-time Kathryn, his graduate student, to end his curse. This New Adult romance was inspired by the Brothers Grimm and the fairy tales readers around the world are familiar with, like Cinderella, Snow White, and more.

This book has an interesting premise that caught my attention. However, I was not enamored with the hero, who I think the book is mostly focused on. The likable heroine needed more details to make her stand out in the story. And the ending left me dissatisfied.

It is an okay book overall. Nice premise, gentle heroine, and a hero who matured during the story.

**Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the review copy.**

Well, I was really excited to recieve an e-arc for this book, the cover was gorgeous and the synopsis grabbed my interest immediately. However, the excited dwindled the more I read. The writing was mediocre, and read more like a rough draft than a final product. Words were missing or often there was a word that didn't make any sense and I had to reread over the line to figure out what was trying to said.

The storyline and plot were there, just rushed and not very well developed. I believe that if the book were split in two, one with the story of Raine and Rosslyn ( the two villains) and then another following Jacob and Katheryn's story then the book would have flowed better and left a lot more space for story development.

One positive note about this book is that there were a lot of easter eggs to well known favorites like Beauty and the Beast and Rumplestilskin. These small little bits kept me interested in the book and wanting to see what else the author mixes into her retelling.

Overall, for a kindle only release this was one of the better ones that I have read.

I wanted to love this book so much. A bookish heroine! Time travel! Fairy tales! Curses! Romance! I was drawn in by the blurb but sadly the content did not captivate. I DNF'd at less than a hundred pages. I was lost and did not understand these characters or their motivations at all.

So - I have to admit, I didn't finish it. I wanted so much to love this book. It is 100% right up my alley - fairy tales come to life across time. I loved it conceptually - but it just didn't work for me. Particularly when I looked down and was only at the 30% mark - when I felt like we had to be getting close to the end right??? I kept waiting for something to happen and by the 60% mark I still felt like I was getting background information. Overall - I felt like each chapter gave me just enough to get interested - and then the perspective would change and never come back to where we left off. I think more editing is needed for this book to really succeed.

There were moments that I adored it - but then kept wanting to flip ahead to get through things. I also did not feel any connection whatsoever for Kathryn. She just felt very wooden - especially in comparison to Jacob.

The plot of A Love Across Time, is very interesting and the description of the story made me want to read it. I felt really bad for the Jacob having to endure all he had to endure and even for Kathryn and I really wanted them to find their happily every after. Some of the alternative time lines/story lines confused me, so I had to re-read it a few times, and there was a lot of details that could be trimmed but overall it wasn’t that bad of a read.

This book looked so exciting. It has a gorgeous cover and an extremely interesting premise with alternate timelines, fairytales and romance, and I started this book with lots of hope. I was very quickly disappointed.

For starters, the writing is clunky. It read like a first draft, with spelling errors and all. We were given so much unnecessary information, such as which authors and books Kathryn has been reading, the story behind her parent’s antique clock, that she took the stairs rather than the elevator for cardio purposes. The passage of time was not conveyed very well, such as when one of the characters arrives at his own party and then leaves in the next sentence but it seems like maybe hours have passed. Jumping back and forward between the timelines was also hard to follow, as I would forget the names of characters and who they are as we alternated between timelines.

The characters were extremely one dimensional. I didn’t understand the motivations behind the things they did or said, and I really struggled to relate to them. For example, Jacob vows that he doesn’t want to marry, and we are not told why. Then all of a sudden his mother presents a young woman to him and he agrees to marry her after a minute of meeting her, but then never replies to any of her letters. Also, Kathryn is an adult who still lives at home with her parents, and who from the first 10% of the book we would say has an excellent relationship with them. But then all of a sudden they die and she is complaining that they weren’t a very close family, and that their professions meant they didn’t have time for her. I am confused to say the least. I’m not sure if this is intentional, as this is often the style in which fairytales are written, but all it resulted in was me not particularly caring about or liking any of the characters.

I’m also a bit confused about the intended audience. The book is marketed as YA, and it certainly reads like it’s for a younger audience, but our protagonist Kathryn is an adult, whose inner dialogue and thoughts make her seem like a teenager. I’m not really sure who this book will appeal to, as I myself as a 20 year old university student couldn’t relate to Kathryn, and so I’m not sure how a teenager, the supposed intended audience, will be able to.

All up, this book needs work. I think with a lot of editing, a much clearer and faster moving plot, and more relatable/ understandable characters this could be a really nice book. As I said at the beginning, it’s an incredibly intriguing premise, but the execution of the story needs a lot of work before it becomes a book that I would recommend to others.

i really loved the use of Jacob Grimm as the main characters, I thought the plot worked really well and had a great time reading this book.

DNF. I tried. The story just jumped around too much and didn’t seem connected at all. The writing was too simplistic and didn’t draw me in.