This was a fun and interesting time-travel romance that adds in music, math and Isaac Newton :) I enjoyed the storylines, and especially appreciated that Andrea's life was fleshed out quite well. I don't feel that we got to know Isaac as well, so I would have liked a bit more about his life (guess I need to do some research to fill in the gaps in my knowledge!). I'd recommend it for those interested in time travel and historical figures.

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Sotto takes a real person and event and weaves it into a tale of magic and love. Oh, and gravity plays a part as well I suppose. This is Sotto's second title but my first exposure to her stories and writing. Upon finishing this title I went and added her other two to my massive TBR list. Here's hoping I actually do make time to read them one day. She is lovely to read.

Andrea Louviere is a seven year old in modern day San Francisco. He is a seven year old in 1650. They meet by chance, or perhaps by destiny, through a crack in the wall. Their meetings are random and spread out, their families think they have lost their minds or have been visited by the devil. When Andrea turns 17 a man delivers a letter to her front door. It's old, yellowed, and sealed with red wax bearing the initials IN. She cracks it open and suddenly her world comes together and falls apart all at the same time. The letter is from Isaac Newton. Yes, THE Isaac Newton. It seems Isaac is the boy she's been viewing through the crack in the wall the past 10 years. But how, why, HOW? What follows is a story weaved through time and space to bring two lives together. What follows is a story weaved through two realities that only magic could allow these two lives to cross in and out of. What follows is a story of two loves in two different times and how the heart can bear it.

This was a really engaging story with great characters. Sotto, through fiction, humanizes Newton for us modern day people who could not ever know what he was actually like. And was he actually at all like her portrait of him? Who knows but it's fun to imagine this version of him. Sotto had a way of describing Andrea's music in such a way that I could almost hear it. It made me hungry to pull up some Yo-Yo Ma and other great cellists and sit in their music while it played all around me. Sotto presents that lingering "what if" with such confidence that it almost made this reader believe it could be possible.

It just took me forever to get into this book. I don't have a great reason why. I think the premise and the back and forth between timelines felt a bit messy to me.

This book did not pull me in, it felt overwrought although I loved the premise.

We loved this book! The writing was lyrical and magical! We included it in our monthly book subscription box. Thank you Random House for helping us create an exclusive paperback version of this book!

Not only is the cover amazing, the insides are too. I loved the writing and found so many great quotes along the lines.

Loved this book
Didn't want it to end
Highly recommended

I was quickly sucked into the story. I have recommended this book several times!

Novel about a girl/young woman whose cello playing intermittently somehow opens a crack in time through which she gets to see - and eventually fall in love with - Isaac Newton. The blurb for this book compares it to "The Timetraveller's Wife" which perhaps set the bar too high - it was sweet, but a little slow.

I was very much looking forward to this book as I loved Samantha Sotto's first novel. This book did not disappoint. Science fiction isn't a genre I'm drawn to, but I loved her ability to interweave a story that has mystery, love and time travel. This book kept me on the edge of my seat as I longed to see how she would end such a rich and thrilling story. I can't wait to recommend this to my friends!

Love and Gravity by Samantha Sotto tells the story of Andrea, who plays the cello, and Issac Newton, who discovered gravity. This is a story of how Andrea's music opened a rip in time and the two fell in love.

This book has two of my favorite subjects in it, time travel and music. The cover of this book caught my attention, its beautiful. I was hooked on this book from the first page. It is beautifully written and captures your attention all the way until the end.

I enjoyed the characters. I have yet to read The Time Traveler's Wife, so I cannot compare this book with that one. I do think that this book would be good for fans of books on time travel though.

I acknowledge that I received this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for my honest and unbiased opinion of it.

This is a book I will read again, and likely again. Some love stories are like that.

Time travel with a twist. I loved the premise of this book as well as the characters. The twist towards the end I did not see coming!

This is a must for fans of Time Travelers Wife and the Outlander series. If you like novels where an implausible couple- in this case a modern American cellist and Issac Newton- cross the time space continuum, then this is for you. I especially liked that Andrea was very well rounded; despite how odd the situation was, she always came across as very real. Newton seems an unlikely love interest but oh, how wonderful this story is. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC. This is beautifully written and entirely well thought out. It's a gem.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

Andrea is 7 years old the first time her cello playing opens a hole in her wall, revealing a boy on the other side. She becomes split in two at that point, one part living her present with her family and best friend, Nate, and one part obsessed with making the hole and the boy appear again. When she turns 17, she begins receiving letters from Isaac Newton telling her that she will eventually make her way through that hole and back to him, and the obsession begins anew.

The author has a way with words. However, every time there was a scene with Isaac, I just kept waiting for the story to go back to Nate, which I don’t think I was supposed to do since the main story is about Andrea and Isaac. LOL Crack or no crack, it’s hard to imagine how Andrea could have even considered turning down what she had with Nate.

This was a one-sitting read for me, which took me by surprise. I'm a sucker for science and time travel and romance and women conquering their chosen profession, and this has all four. I was more enamoured of Andrea than Isaac, but they were very cute together!

This is a wonderful work of fiction that challenges the reader and delights at every page ! This is the story of a young girl in San Francisco with a gift. Her special gift is that she can see and talk to Sir Issac Newton. . As she grows up her friendship with Newton develops and together they take on the world in their own way. I found the writing very well crafted, loved the story and adore this fresh interesting story. I highly recommend Love And Gravity .