The door creaked as it begrudgingly opened. A flurry of dust, mingled in history, flew up from the unacknowledged mail gathered around its base, and I cringed at the sound. It had taken quite a shove from both me and Linda to get it moving, but then, I guess it hadn't been in regular use for some time...
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The Blurb
Two eras. One aching heart.
1917 – At Cambridge University, American scholar Harry Turchin never expects to lose himself to desire. But Annie Mackenzie—soft-spoken, grieving, and luminous—claims his heart from their very first kiss. Their love is swift, fierce, and intoxicating. Married just days before Harry is sent to war, their passion is ripped apart when the trenches claim everything he knows, and Harry is thrown into a future that should not exist.
1967 – The free-spirited sixties are alive with rhythm, rebellion, and possibility. Harry awakens to a world he doesn’t recognise—and to Annalise Taylor, as bold and captivating as the era itself. Brilliant, independent, and achingly alive, she rouses a desire he thought belonged solely to the past.
Caught between the love he was ripped away from and the passion he cannot resist, Harry is torn between two women, two lives, and two versions of forever. Because time will not bend twice … Or will it?
Sweeping from the blood-soaked battlefields of World War One to the fevered nights of the swinging sixties, No More Tomorrows is a sensual time-slip romance about desire, devotion, and the devastating power of love that refuses to be bound by time.
My Review
This book has a dual timeline and moves between the past and the present seamlessly.
The main character, Harry Turchin, has time-travelled from the battlefields of World War One in 1917 to the swinging 1960s. In the earlier part of the novel we meet American student Harry as he marries Annie just days before he leaves to fight on the front.
Believed to be missing in action by Annie, Harry actually finds himself transported to 1967. Disorientated, Harry is taken in by a French farmer and his wife who nurse him back to health. Eventually, he returns to England to search for Annie. There, he is befriended by Annalise, who had previously found and read Harry's letters to Annie in the attic, so already knows something of his past.
This was a lovely book to read and I could empathise with Harry's dilemma. Stuck in the future with the passionate and feisty Annalise, who is helping him to find Annie, it isn't too long before the chemistry between him and Annalise becomes apparent. He asks himself whether he is betraying Annie by loving Annalise.
The chapters are narrated by both Harry and Annalise in turn. Both were strong and distinct voices, and I adored them both as characters. They were each a product of their times and the authors did a great job of contrasting the roles of men and women in the two time periods. They were both easy to engage with as characters and I was rooting for them all the way.
The question of whether Harry would somehow return to the past and thus to his wife, Annie, was in the air throughout. I couldn't predict which way this book would go until the final pages. Neither could I decide if I wanted Harry to stay and love Annalise or whether I wanted him to return to his past to be with his wife and baby.
This was a lovely historical romance with a time-travel element and I enjoyed reading it very much. I highly recommend it.
Book Details
ISBN: 979 8272427007
Publisher: Independently published
Formats: e-book and paperback (currently available on Kindle Unlimited)
No. of Pages: 410 (paperback)
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About the Author
Olivia Lockhart (Livvie to her friends) is an English author who can’t quite decide if she wants to write contemporary romance, historical romance, or paranormal romance. So she writes them all, because it HAS to be romance!
She loves to write about the underdog, the one who got away, the bits of love stories we can all relate to.
When not writing she can be found drinking wine, cuddling with her beloved pooch, or with her head in a book.
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(ARC and media courtesy of Rachel's Random Resources)
(all opinions are my own)
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