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A review by sarahscupofcoffee
All This Time by Mikki Daughtry, Rachael Lippincott
5.0
All This Time by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott is a young adult contemporary romance, cloaked in tragedy and rebirth.
We meet Kyle, who is desperately in love with his off and on again girlfriend, Kimberly. When Kim tries to explain to Kyle that they’ve been together for their whole lives and she wants to see where life takes them both individually, Kyle won’t accept it. In the heat of the argument, he gets into a car accident and Kim dies. He has to navigate a world without her and is forced to learn the lesson she wanted to teach him on his own.
Even though All This Time sounds like a depressing story, it’s surprisingly uplifting and hopeful. We see Kyle’s journey through grief and the romance genre comes into play when he meets Marley, a teen who is also grieving. We watch as their relationship blossoms through their shared experiences through grief. It’s truly a beautiful story and easily a five-star read.
The first fifty percent was rocky for me because there were quite a few things that I didn’t like. For example, when Kimberly dies, Kyle goes through this intense depressive phase (which I found very accurate), but then he meets Marley soon after he was forced out of the house and suddenly his world lit up.
However, I remember that feeling. I remember losing my spouse and then meeting someone who made me feel something for the first time. It’s an incredible, guilt-stricken feeling. The authors did an amazing job depicting those contrasting emotions.
Another aspect of this novel that I struggled with was the pacing. Throughout the first half of the book, each chapter began with a time jump. Some chapters jumped a few days, while others jumped weeks. I struggled with that while I was reading it, but the plot twists that came later made everything click.
The plot twists made this read worthy of five stars. The end of the book is riddled with plot twists that I was not expecting. One of my biggest pet peeves is predictable plot twists and All This Time caught me by surprise. Multiple times.
I cried. I yelled. I muttered to myself throughout the novel. My boyfriend thought I was crazy. Books rarely affect me this way, which is why All This Time made it to my all-time favorites shelf on Goodreads.
If you liked Five Feet Apart by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott, you’ll love All This Time. It’s powerful, inspiring, and heartbreaking all the same time. I will re-read this book every once in a while, just because I fell in love with the characters. I’d love to see this book turned into a movie.
I’d like to thank NetGalley, Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing, Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott for the eARC and Goodreads for the physical ARC!
We meet Kyle, who is desperately in love with his off and on again girlfriend, Kimberly. When Kim tries to explain to Kyle that they’ve been together for their whole lives and she wants to see where life takes them both individually, Kyle won’t accept it. In the heat of the argument, he gets into a car accident and Kim dies. He has to navigate a world without her and is forced to learn the lesson she wanted to teach him on his own.
Even though All This Time sounds like a depressing story, it’s surprisingly uplifting and hopeful. We see Kyle’s journey through grief and the romance genre comes into play when he meets Marley, a teen who is also grieving. We watch as their relationship blossoms through their shared experiences through grief. It’s truly a beautiful story and easily a five-star read.
The first fifty percent was rocky for me because there were quite a few things that I didn’t like. For example, when Kimberly dies, Kyle goes through this intense depressive phase (which I found very accurate), but then he meets Marley soon after he was forced out of the house and suddenly his world lit up.
However, I remember that feeling. I remember losing my spouse and then meeting someone who made me feel something for the first time. It’s an incredible, guilt-stricken feeling. The authors did an amazing job depicting those contrasting emotions.
Another aspect of this novel that I struggled with was the pacing. Throughout the first half of the book, each chapter began with a time jump. Some chapters jumped a few days, while others jumped weeks. I struggled with that while I was reading it, but the plot twists that came later made everything click.
The plot twists made this read worthy of five stars. The end of the book is riddled with plot twists that I was not expecting. One of my biggest pet peeves is predictable plot twists and All This Time caught me by surprise. Multiple times.
I cried. I yelled. I muttered to myself throughout the novel. My boyfriend thought I was crazy. Books rarely affect me this way, which is why All This Time made it to my all-time favorites shelf on Goodreads.
If you liked Five Feet Apart by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott, you’ll love All This Time. It’s powerful, inspiring, and heartbreaking all the same time. I will re-read this book every once in a while, just because I fell in love with the characters. I’d love to see this book turned into a movie.
I’d like to thank NetGalley, Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing, Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott for the eARC and Goodreads for the physical ARC!