![]() ![]() While the romantic core of this story is held strongly by the absolute submission that love demands, the themes that Miles attempts to engage with across the various timelines truly strengthen the tenderness of this story. Is this truly ambitious and refreshing? Yes. Is this literary fiction meets teen romance? Yes. Is this science-fiction meets historical fiction? Yes. When they finally realize this cycle, these soulmates must quickly figure out how to break this destined wheel and get a happily ever after-if one exists. Unfortunately, it all always ends in a tragedy. As Tamar and Fayard struggle to remember their present life, dreams unravel their past lives. Waking up in a hospital, they have no memory of themselves, but an emotional string still connects the two. While the two spend their last minutes together before Tamar sets off for an overseas cryogenic center, her last option to survive in some sense, an explosion goes off at the airport, killing everyone but them. She’s realistic and rational he’s a hopeless romantic. Fayard is willing to do anything for her. ![]() Tamar has survived COVID but her lung condition is now deteriorating. ![]() Told through alternating narrations and shifting perspectives of the Black teenagers, this time-hopping love story unfolds in the present-day while swinging through a parallel plane that spans the 14th century, the 1920s, and the 2200s. ![]()
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