It’s time for another month of the Unlocking the Past Reading Challenge: Unlock an Adventure. I’m so excited to join you on an adventure this year with guest reviews from our reading challenge participants. If you want to submit a review for upcoming months, feel free to sign up for a month here and use the Google form to submit your review. As my time has become too limited to do a suggestions post each month, I encourage you to jump over to the Unlocking the Past Reading Challenge page and ask for suggestions from there or from any of a number of amazing reader groups like Avid Readers of Christian Fiction or check out the Inspirational Historical Fiction Index.
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September’s Theme: Time Travel
October’s Theme: Medieval Setting
In This Moment
by Gabrielle Meyer
Review by: Charity Henico, @Charity.Book.Escapes on Instagram
What if you had three different lives, but you could only finish out one? And YOU had to choose which one that would be? That’s Margaret/Maggie/Meg’s dilemma in In This Moment, which is the second book in Gabrielle Meyer’s Timeless series. She’s living three different lives, in three different eras, at the same time. When she turns 21, she has to choose which life to keep.Â
I really can’t talk much about this book, as I don’t want to give anything away. But hear me out here: when each chapter is so poignant, so moving, that you have to set the book aside for a few minutes to take it all in before reading the next one, and when an author can put you smack dab in the middle (well, the beginning) of the Civil War, World War 2, AND September 11? You know you have yourself a good book. Not even just a good book, but a must-read book.
I knew which path I wanted Margaret/Maggie/Meg to choose pretty much from the beginning, but I still wasn’t sure exactly which one it would be until almost the last chapter! This book will keep you guessing until the very end, and you do NOT want to miss out!
Genre: Historical, Dual-Time/Time Travel
Plot Overview:
Maggie inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives in 1861, 1941, and 2001. Each night, she goes to sleep in one time period and wakes up in another. Until she turns twenty-one, when she will have to forfeit two of those lives–and everyone she knows in them–forever.
In 1861, Maggie is the daughter of a senator at the outbreak of the Civil War, navigating a capital full of Southern spies and wounded soldiers. In 1941, she is a navy nurse, grappling with her knowledge of the future when she joins a hospital ship going to Pearl Harbor. And in 2001, she’s a brilliant young medical student, fulfilling her dream of becoming a surgeon.
While Maggie has sworn off romance until she makes her final choice, an intriguing man tugs at her heart in each era, only complicating the impossible decision she must make, which looms ever closer. With so much on the line, how can Maggie choose just one life to keep and the rest to lose?
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Recommendations for October:
- The Merchant’s Daughter by Melanie Dickerson
- Lord of Her Heart by Sherinda Ketchersid
- Valorous by Tamara Leigh
- Kingdom of Love by Tracie Peterson
- The Rose and the Thing by Joyce Brandt Williams
- Legend of the Guardian King series by Karen Hancock
- Enamored by Jody Hedlund
- The Knight and the Dove by Lori Wick
I read Never Leave Me by Jody Hedlund. It was really good, the second book in her time travel series. I had read Gabrielle Meyers book in August and just loved it! I’d highly recommend both books.
Wonderful to know!
I read Valley of Decision by Lynne Gentry. It’s book 3 in her Carthage Chronicles series. I read both of Gabrielle Meyers books earlier in the year, so I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to find a book that I had that would work, so I was happy when I found this one.
Colleen, such a great series!
Yay! So glad you found one that works!
I read A Gilded Age Getaway by Stephenia McGee. It’s a cute series.
Gabrielle’s time slip series is fabulous!
I’m looking forward to diving into that series! Actually, both series!
In This Moment by Gabrielle Meyer is such a great read, as is the first book in the series! Any book that makes me feel all the emotions and makes me stay up late to finish is definitely a winner, and I’d highly recommend it!
Yay! I’ll start with that one when I have some time!
I read Valorious by Tamara Leigh. I’ve been keeping up with the Wulfriths for ages and I get my hands on each new book as soon as possible. Love the imagery, language and setting of the Middle Ages.
I’ve heard wonderful things about her books!
I also read In This Moment. So good!
I’m so looking forward to reading it!
I read In This Moment back when it released and I love both books in the series so far. I’m looking forward to book three and was so excited to learn there will definitely be a book four.
I used this challenge as an excuse to finally read Deluge by Lisa T. Bergren, the final book in the River of Time series. I am so glad I did. It was an awesome conclusion. Definitely very emotional.
For next month I have several I am trying to choose between. A book by Tamara Leigh, either Dreamspell or The Unveiling (as it was recommended I start with that one), Fairest Beauty by Melanie Dickerson, or She Walks in Power by MaryLu Tyndall.
Those all sound like fantastic options. I’m so glad you got to finish a series with September’s challenge.
For the month of September, I read Gallimore by Michelle Griep. I haven’t read too many time travel novels, so this was a little different for me. But the medieval setting was great! 9.5/10 recommend!
AHHHH!!!! I haven’t read that one yet!! I need to catch up. I think have two of hers yet to read. Gallimore and another super early one. That and her Viking one which you can’t buy right now.