When the Day Comes

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When the Day Comes

Gabrielle Meyer

Bethany House Publishers

 Libby has been given a powerful gift: to live one life in 1774 Colonial Williamsburg and the other in 1914 Gilded Age New York City. When she falls asleep in one life, she wakes up in the other without any time passing. On her twenty-first birthday, Libby must choose one path and forfeit the other--but how can she possibly decide when she has so much to lose?

This is one of the most unique premises for a Christian fiction book that I've yet found. The idea of living in one world and waking in another is something I have read before (any of y'all remember Ted Dekker's Circle Trilogy?) But I've never seen it done with historical time periods. 

I do admit some of this one was difficult to read, being both stressful and anger-inducing. (In one time period, our main character is forced into marriage and basically raped by her husband). The uncertainty also made it difficult for me to really get attached to the romance. (While I had an inkling, early on, of how the story would end, Libby and Henry's relationship never really sprung to life for me).

To me, what was most interesting was the world this book created: the time-crossing is genetic, and Libby's mother having the same ability (Having had to choose between the 1700s and the 1990s) added a neat bent I wasn't expecting. While this book didn't quite live up to all my expectations, I am curious about what other books in this series will be like, especially if they follow different characters in different time periods!

I received this book from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.


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