In This Moment

 In This Moment

Gabrielle Meyer

Bethany House Publishers

Maggie inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives in 1861, 1941, and 2001. Each night she goes to sleep in one time period and wakes up in another. Until, that is, she turns twenty-one, when she will have to forfeit two of those lives--and everyone she knows in them--forever.

In 1861, Maggie is the daughter of an influential senator at the outbreak of the Civil War, navigating a capital full of Southern spies and wounded soldiers. In 1941, she is a Navy nurse, grappling with her knowledge of the future when she's asked to join a hospital ship being sent to Pearl Harbor. And in 2001, she's a brilliant young medical student, fulfilling her dream of becoming a surgeon, yet unable to use her modern skills in her other paths.

While Maggie has sworn off romance until she makes her final choice, an intriguing man tugs at her heart in each era. The mysterious British gentleman. The prickly, demanding doctor. The charming young congressman. She's drawn to each man in different ways, only complicating the impossible decision she must make, which looms ever closer.

With so much on the line, how can Maggie choose just one life to keep and the rest to lose?

      Once again, these books pull me in with their unique premise, though this one reminded me just how melancholy that premise can be (In the first book, our heroine only had a good family situation in one of her lives- in this book, our heroine has three, meaning she has to leave two of them behind her forever.)

     While in some ways I enjoyed this book more, in other ways I felt like the three time periods split my attention too much and made it difficult to fully involve myself in them, especially when it came to the three possible romantic relationships (as this book had more of an emphasis on romance than the previous book).

     However, there were a few plot twists I didn't see coming, and my curiosity about how everything would pan out certainly kept me turning pages.

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