I'm not sure how to feel about this book. It's an okay(ish) type of book, I think? This book is nice so far and the plot of the story is simple

I went to read this, however the file had not transferred to my kindle, and as it is an old backlog I cannot send from NG any longer. Sounds like a good book though.

What a rollicking time-traveling tale! It was well-written and enjoyable to read. One can certainly empathize with a heroine who is bewildered at not knowing what time period she has awakened in each morning.

Waking in time took me on a roller coaster of feels. Let me tell you it was worth it! I am a sucker for some time travel.

The start of the book was a little slow. I won't lie I was worried but once I got about two hours in it really started moving. I was so invested in the story and the history Abbi was uncovering about her family past. This was a romance but what I really loved about that was the romance wasn't the driving plot. It was a secondary storyline which really gave Abbi her time to build and develop as a character. The end happened a little to fast for me. I wanted a little more time to see where they ended up.

The narration was good. I am super picky about voices and will give up on listening if the voice does not take the story places. I did not feel this way about this book. However, I did want just a little more change in the voice for each character. All together this was a great book and an amazing listen!

I loved this book! The full review will be posted soon at kaitgoodwin.com/books! Thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity to connect books to their readers!

With thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for my copy.

The first time I tried to read this book I abandoned it; at the time it just didn't appeal to me. Recently, I revisited the title and discovered that it was a rather sweet, though somewhat bemusing time travel romance.
Although the blurb makes the book sound more like a time travel mystery, I felt that the ultimate focus was the main protagonists relationship.
This time round I persevered and found the story a quick read, however it was somewhat disjointed due to the constant time jumps of the main characters. What was appealing (even if I could tell it was coming) was the way in which relationships between characters are interwoven and that the author took her inspiration from life.

Make your own decision.

I enjoyed this book but felt like it lacked something. It just didn't grab my attention as I had hoped. However the plot and the writing was good.

I did not read this before the PDF expired, so I cannot review it.

Abbi aka Abigail is about to start her first year at College. The same college that her Grandmother and Great-Grandmother attended, growing up she had always heard amazing stories about the college campus. The thing though is her grandmother has currently passed away, so though it is a rejoiceful time it is also a sad time. Abbi arrives at college with a quilt her Grandmother made her and also a hatbox with photos from her Grandmother's life including one of her Grandmother and a friend that looks exactly like Abbi. That night Abbi goes out to a bonfire party and meets Colton who is a grandson of WC Smith - an ex-professor at the University. That night though, as Abbi falls asleep will begin a descent into the past as Abbi ends up traveling through times and different decades at the College. It turns out she is a time traveler and not the only one - while Abbi can only go backward, Will who was from the year 1927 seems to be going forwards. As Abbi starts going further and further back in history, she starts to wonder whether she will ever get back to her "time" in history. During the book, she also stays in contact in the different periods with Smitty aka Professor WC Smith. One of my favorite parts of Waking in Time was when Abbi got to spend time with her Grandmother and her Great-Grandparents as teenagers. I also loved how Angie tied everything together in the last chapter; this ending would have to be one of my favorites in a book that I read in a long time. It was one of those perfect endings, which made you fill with happiness and excitement. If you love time-travelling and Teen/NA crossover books and also family genealogy and wanting a new author to discover, then check out Waking in Time by Angie Stanton today.

I was 1000% on board with the concept. Time travel, a college connection and family secrets to be revealed - I was hooked.

I quickly found myself getting bored, however, with the structure. Every time period our main character traveled to consisted of the same thing: roommate complaints, sassy attitudes and skipping classes. The descriptions of each point of time were so shallow and lacking that I audibly groaned every time a stereotypical object made an appearance (macrame bags, saddle shoes, etc.)

The attempts towards the end of the novel at romance and familial closeness felt like an afterthought - trying to cram in an ending in 30 pages or less. Rushed and felt forced to have fuzzy feelings for characters that were blips throughout the novel.

Time travel novels are such an opportunity for the author to delve just a little bit deeper than the generic points that anyone can identify from a specific generation. This fell flat for me.

2/5 stars.
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My problem with this book was that I thought she was going to meet her grandmother in the past for some reason. Instead, I see her time travel backwards several times, not to mention the irresponsible stuff she did beforehand that put me off. It was hard to read the book after the first few chapters, once the bonfire started. That's why I gave it a one star rating (because I had to DNF the book.

Thank you, Netgalley. However, I was unable to download this book before it was archived.

I always enjoy a good time travel romance. With a plot of mystery and almost an impossible love this story is amazing and heart-breaking.

*Source: e-galley provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review

Abbi arrives at her new home for the next four years - UW Madison, a school that her beloved late grandmother went to. She feels strongly connected to her in this place and is glad that she chose to do this. As she's settling in, she receives a mysterious box that belonged to her grandmother and within it, finds a note from her that makes no sense at all. One night she goes to bed and the next morning she wakes up in a different time. Completely disoriented, she attempts to understand what is happening, even going to classes to behave as normally as possible without arousing suspicion. However, it gets more complicated as she keeps travelling further back in time. At some point, she comes to the realization that there's a mystery to solve and that she is somehow connected to it. Finding this connection becomes the goal and with some help, she hopes to solve this mystery and return to her own time.

Stories about time travelling can be tricky. Some can get too science-y and lose your attention while some can be too flippant. At first, the time travel moments reminded me of another novel from over a decade ago except this isn't as convoluted and hard to grasp. I mean that in a good way! The straightforward premise in Waking in Time meant that I could participate in the mystery and the friendships and romance that were developing without feeling like the story was over my head. Because ultimately, you want to enjoy the story, right? I also delighted in Stanton's description of the college campus. I've only ever been to Madison once a long time ago and I got to visit the campus then. It was summertime and the city was so vibrant and the campus simply breathtaking. So when Stanton added a bit of history to it, I was excited.

I'd like to add that from reading Stanton's books in the past (Royally Lost being one of them), I've noticed that her stories remain relatively chaste and with Will, chivalry is safely intact. Last thing I'd like to add is that at the end of the book, Stanton mentions the story that inspired Waking in Time. It's kind of bittersweet and I like that Staton's spin on it has a happy ending. So there you have it. If you're up for a bit of time travel, romance and a mystery to boot, check out Waking in Time.

I guess I am going to be in the minority with this one. Most people seemed to enjoy this one, but I just couldn't. Here's what I did like: I liked the description of the different time periods Abbi traveled to. I know that women's rights kind of sucked in the 20's (understatement, I am sure), but I love the fashion from that time period. And it was nice to see how fashion and attitudes and technology changed throughout the years. The author obviously did her research with that.

So why didn't I like this book? Honestly, for a time travel book, it was kind of boring. Abbi was kind of a bland character. I can't say that I loved or hated her because I didn't really feel much for her at all. And there was a guy who was introduced at the very beginning of the book and I had no clue why there was even a scene with him in it until the end of it. Then there was the love interest, Will. While Will was a very sweet guy, there was zero chemistry. They also didn't even share that many scenes together because of the whole time traveling thing so I didn't get the relationship. Because of the whole time traveling thing, we didn't even see Abbi and Will's relationship until more than halfway through the book and I had lost interest at the point. There also wasn't a lot of action. Every time period was the same: Abbi woke up, tried to fit in, met some physics professor for clues about what was happening, go to sleep and then start all over again the next day. Just add a random encounter with Will in there every once in a while and that was the story. I didn't like that Abbi didn't know the mystery she was supposed to solve until past the halfway point (I already knew, by the way, because it was predictable) and the resolution to the mystery was so slow to unravel. The entire book is mainly Abbi traveling through time with no clue why it's happening or how to get home and then all of a sudden, every mystery is just solved within the span of a couple of pages towards the end of the book. It was a bit unsatisfying. Sorry, but this one was not for me.

I found this book delightfully entertaining and will definitely recommend it to patrons.

I'm not much of a sci-fi geek or reader that's into this whole time travelling thing. However, I decided to request Waking In Time simply because it was written by Angie Stanton and I enoyed a novel or two by her in the past. Also, yes, the cover is drop dead gorgeous and it was rated young and new adult - all things I am into. And I can safely report now that I haven't regretted me requesting this one tiny second. It was really, really good.

Maybe the beginning is a bit rushed, because Abbi hasn't fully arrived to college before she first started travelling. It wasn't her choice to do so, but some mystery thing that she's trying to find out about. Truth be told, the rushing didn't bother me as much as it did while reading the first few chapters, because her travel scenes were just too amazing. I always felt like I was with Abbi, back at that time she travelled to. Angie Stanton did a great job describing the eras, along with what Abbi's dorm room looked like. She also gave her roommates a lot of thought, some were super cute and some were super noisy. It was a mix.

Abbi meets this professor named Mr. Smith, who claims to know her from his past. At first, she's a bit sceptical, but as she realizes she only travels back in time, things start to make sense. Time travelling novels tend to confuse you, because this topic is just really complicated and complex, as well. Sometimes, it was hard for me to make sense of the things Abbi thought or what the professor said, how events can be changed, etc. Which is why I am glad there is no such thing as time travelling in real life or I'd be the last to understand it.

Her family story warmed my heart and by the end of the book, I was fascinated to find out that Waking In Time isn't as fictional as you might believe. Angie Stanton's mind is a brilliant one, coming up with a story like this based on a real life event that's set to inspire this book.

Also, I'm glad the author made it so that Abbi never travelled somewhere during war. I'm sure I wouldn't have liked that very much. There is some kind of lightness to the book that era would have ruined for good. It's a topic for itself that would have taken up too much space in Abbi's story.

Oh, and then I almost forgot to tell you about Will... He's such a sweetheart. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of time until we find out about him, but that's perfectly fine, because of what you find out later in the book. His sudden appearance would have changed a lot of things, and seriously, I wouldn't change a single thing about Waking In Time. Anyway... Will is Abbi's partner in crime of the future. Well, his future anyway. That's the interesting part - while Abbi travels back in time, he travels forward. Thing is, he isn't from our century, which is probably also what makes their romance so swoon-worthy, haha. Their love was super sweet.

So, I declare Waking In Time my favorite time travelling book. I can't recommend this book enough for all the young adult readers, who want a bit of sci-fi and sweet, old-fashioned love.

3.5 stars -- I received a free copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest and unbiased review/opinion.

Well damn. This book was sooooooo weird for me. I was extremely compelled to read it, and couldn't put it down (staying up until the wee hours of the night to finish it). But I was also kind of unsatisfied with many aspects of the story, and I'm not exactly sure what was compelling me. Honestly, I think I just wanted to know the answers. I wanted to know the different mysteries, and I wanted to know how the time travel was going to work and be explained.

I can honestly say that the mysteries were my favourite parts of the story, from how the time travel was working to the lost baby plotline, even though the lost baby mystery wasn't really remembered and reintroduced until fairly late in the story. I think it's so odd when something is part of the blurb, or mentioned at the very beginning, but ends up only being a small part of the plot as a whole. I wasn't expecting that, and it was kind of frustrating how it kept getting lost in the shuffle. But at the same time I was really interested in finding out, and while I had some theories pretty early on that ended up coming to fruition, I was still really satisfied with the way that worked out. I think I just would have liked for it to play a more central role in the book, instead it felt a bit tacked on...even though there was groundwork laid earlier, we as the reader didn't know that. I don't know...

And then there's the time travel. I found it really compelling, but I have to say the explanation was very underwhelming. But I think it still ended up being enjoyable for me, just because of the way the time travel was working and the theories I would come up with in my head, and that anticipation, that even though I was unsatisfied with the explanation, it still made for a fun read. I think time travel is extremely hard to get right, and in the end this book just left me with a lot of confusing questions and plot holes, which is a shame. Also, if you're looking for a time travel book that's science based, this book isn't for you. This was more just hand-wavy in the end...which would have been ok if a major part of the book wasn't about the Physics Professor making it his life's work to figure it out. *shrugs* See? Mixed bag.
Honestly, I could write a lot more negative things about this book than positive things. Abbi was not a very well-developed character, and I really couldn't tell you what she was like, what interested her, any of that. She was extremely shallow. She was really just a vehicle for the plot I guess. Which is kind of disappointing when she's your MC and voice. The Professor, Sharon, Ruby, and even Walter a bit, were more interesting and 3 dimensional.

The love interest, Will, was very sweet, but we really don't learn much about his journey either. And I was even less satisfied with his reasons for time travel than I was for Abbi's (I was satisfied with Abbi's). And while the romance was sweet, it was a bit insta-lovey just because of the nature of the way their stories intertwine, and because we don't really get to see them connect, it's sort of glossed over in that they share time talking over weeks or whatever. I want to see that chemistry and connection, not just have it exist out of nowhere. And it really wasn't a very prominent part of the book either, just a small section.

So see? Not a lot of positive to say, but at the same time I really was entertained. It was a quick read. I'm not sure how well Ms. Stanton did getting the historical stuff right, but I've never been a historical book reader so that wasn't what drew me to the book. In the end it was pretty light on history, mostly just shallow details there as well. So I guess I would mostly recommend this to those who enjoy a good mystery. Because in the end that's what drew me in and had me turning the pages to find the answers. I'm just not going to guarantee that you will be satisfied with the time travel resolution.