Welcome to Litsy!

A romance novel for thinkers. Spare but oddly emotional writing style. The characters are refreshingly distinct. They are realistically flawed meaning that their faults are both many and unrelated to each other. They do not feel processed, or cleverly designed by the author- yet, of course they were. That‘s a sleight of hand only skilled writers can do. I do wish she had thrown in more New Haven/Yale specifics - and had just a bit more story.

Set mainly at Yale University, this book isn‘t quite the light-hearted romance I expected. Sophie and Jake meet the very first day of classes- inexplicably drawn to one another. The omniscient narrative allows for supporting characters to have more revealed and lends a fairytale quality to this. The time theories and scientific facts are fascinating and this is a compelling read even when the characters behave in frustrating fashions!