What a great story! Very different from what I usually read and I truly enjoyed the premise. Soulmates travelling through time. So beautifully told. Loved it.

I was drawn to this book by the front cover and it didn't disappont. It is well written with a compelling storyline and well developed characters that I loved. I really enjoyed it. The storyline was engaging and really pulls you into the Romance.

It's a good poignant story and I liked the storytelling and the characters.
3.5 upped to 4
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

This is an absolutely wonderful romance story that transcends time. It is so rare for me to find a romantic story that completely draws me in but this one was gorgeous and totally unforgettable. Highly recommended.

Elia and Kalli, Jeremy and Joy. The same people but in different worlds. Loosing each other, finding each other. An inseperable couple and their spiritual romance. Timetraveling until they meet again.
Great concept, well written, fast paced. Quite a wonderful journey.

This was surprisingly good. I don't usually read romance, but the reincarnation aspect is what appealed to me. I hope this finds an audience.

Thanks very much for the free ARC for review!!

Usually I don’t read romance books, but the synopsis on this one left me intrigued, and let me tell you, it has all, a love that transcends time, pain, suffering, death, rebirth and above all hope in a future where we can be ourselves and happy, death is not the end, is basically the message of this book, after all dying is just like being born…

The book starts before our main characters chose their next body to being born and their promise to find each other in their next life, but knowing that keeping the memories of their time in their beautiful garden of white flowers is next to impossible… and then goes through their childhood and all the things that changed their life forever, how some things keep their life grounded or made them apart or even bring them together aside the circumstances…

Yeah you wont get spoilers from me, but this book touched me in may ways, for you to have an idea, I woke up some time before my alarm so I grabbed my kindle and I resumed reading, and what I was reading was touching me so deeply I was weeping while trying to be silent and my husband felt me trembling and asked me if I was alright, and I just said to him, is this book I am reading… Many things happen, but this book is true to life, and for that reason I know I cant recommend it enough, even if like me you don’t usually read romance, try this one, this one is different, if you read romance, read it anyway, it will touch your heart, of that I am sure, just like it touched mine…

Just a word of advice, when you’re 30% to the end of the book, keep some tissues around you, you’ll need it.

Thank you NetGalley and John Hunt Publishing Ltd for the free ARC and this is my honest opinion.

A love story, with a different twist. Joy and Jeremy are reincarnated soul mates. They are born in the 1970s, close to each other, but to very different families. Joy is loved, Jeremy, not so. They are however, inseparable when they are children. Both their world take a turn for the worst when they are separated when Jeremy is taken into care and moved far away from Joy and the ocean. They are reunited years later, but Joy has changed and after blocking out the idea of seeing Jeremy again, has taken a different path to her life. Still very much attached to each other, they try to recapture the bond they had before, but with tragic results.
This is a very gripping book and well worth the read.

This is an absolutely fantastic read, the writing is incredible and instantly enages you, the storyline is compelling and the characters are really well developed and believable. I found the idea so fascinating and I cannot wait to read more by this author

Before We Were Born
A Novel
by Kathleen Ready Dayan
Description:
A Reincarnation Love Story.
Elia and Kalli are soulmates who travel together through lifetimes. This time, in 1977, Kalli is reborn as Joy Sanders to a family who instantly adores her, but Elia, who chooses a mother based solely on her proximity to Kalli, fares less, fortunately.
He is reincarnated as Jeremy Blake, born prematurely and affected by fetal alcohol syndrome. But he is keenly intuitive and can hear the voices of the spirits who guide him in his new life. Fiercely intelligent and strong-willed Joy becomes his closest childhood friend and protector. Together they form an unbreakable alliance.

Big Thanks to NetGalley, and John Hunt Publishing Ltd for the advanced ebook for the honest review. The best book I have read in a few years. Brilliantly done. It did have me in tears at parts. A sweet, thought- FILLED story.