All This Time

All This Time is absolutely heart wrenching . One moment everything is going well, and the next it pulls on your heart strings. I’ve had some complaints but other than that I love this book and hope that it receives more recognition.Now let’s talk about Kimberly, I’ve got to be honest with myself, I don’t really like her character. Don’t get me wrong, Kim was absolutely right about her boyfriend and his tendencies to make everything about him, but imagine staying with someone out of pity which was exactly what she did! There was something about Kim that bothered me so ,and I can’t put my finger on it quite yet. Just reading about their breakup, bothered me so much and i almost wished she hadn’t been his girlfriend in the first place. Overall I don’t hate her but I guess she just aggravated me so much that I had to skip some of the memories of her.Marley is an absolute doll and I completely fell in love with her character myself, she’s such a lovable girl and I wanted to hug her so much and tell her she shouldn’t beat herself up about her story. I felt like she was such a beautiful girl and I absolutely adore her! She is an amazing story and deserves a whole book about her.Don’t get me started on Kyle, he was aggravating at times, sometimes I wanted to hit him over the head but sometimes I just wanted to cry with him. Overall he was an okay POV, he has a wonderful character development story and I applaud him for changing for the better. Kimberly wasn’t the girl for him and I’m glad they were over, and I just wish he had met Marley way earlier than Kim but anyways I guess that’s just the way it goesOn that note, I think this book is beautifully written and a great read. I recommend anyone who reads it ,to have a box of tissues beside you and ready to maybe even grab your book and toss it across the room because of how many twists and turns it has. Overall good read, the plot is very creative, it wasn’t as good as Five Feet Apart but the storyline is just genius.5/5 wonderful writing5/5 book cover3.5/5 character development6/5 emotional turmoil.

This book destroyed me. I couldn’t put it down – but even when I was forced to, the anxiety and heartbreak my own heart experienced was undeniable.Trauma shapes who we are, what we’ve been through, and who we become. It changes how we look at the world and how we look at ourselves. But trauma from 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴 almost does this even more.Blaming oneself, refusing to move forward with your own life because of the loss of another … Daughtry and Lippincott truly capture the reality of this heartbreaking trauma – and the relentlessness of confusion and despair that accompany these experiences.I loved these characters. I broke for them. I’m still breaking for them. I’m speechless and yet I want to hug them both as close to me as possible to keep them from having to live through any more pain. But I can’t. And so I write a review instead, reeling from their story – unable to even think straight.🆂🆈🅽🅾🅿🆂🅸🆂𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 follows Kyle Lafferty through potentially the worst day of his life. But everything happens for a reason, right?Kyle wakes up in a hospital bed after his girlfriend, Kim, breaks up with him and they end up in a tragic car accident. But when he wakes up, Kim isn’t there. And she’ll never be there to fight with again. Or so he thinks.Suffering from a brain injury from the crash, Kyle keeps thinking that he sees Kim everywhere. But the moments fade over time – once he meets Marley. Marley, who is dealing with her own trauma and loss. Marley, who helps Kyle see that there is more to life than past plans – there can be future plans too.Together they create a future through their present. They live in the now, they enjoy each other, and they pleasantly remember those they’ve lost, instead of being trapped by them as they had for so long.But their story isn’t real. It’s just a story. Or that’s what everyone tries to tell them. Until they prove them wrong.

I loved this book! I won’t give any spoilers, but the plot was unlike any book i’ve read before. I love how the author was able to create a beautiful love story between the characters without following the typical romance book tropes. Definitely a must read!!

<<spoilers>>There was something about this book from the very beginning that just felt off. I'm not sure if it was Kyle's voice, or the knowledge that tragedy was going to strike early on, or just the relationships that were laid out at the beginning... I went into reading this with so many questions.Then, as I continued on I got hung up on the fact that this story seemed to take place in fits and starts. Just as action seemed to take hold something about Kyle questioning himself, or his memories of Kim, or his interactions with his mother would halt everything and we'd get several more pages of inner turmoil. Even when Kyle met Marley, there was something about the interactions that didn't feel right.I will admit right now that I couldn't bring myself to finish this book. I got about halfway through and couldn't find the will to pick it up again which is a sure sign for me that I need to move on. But I was curious, so I searched for spoilers. Learning that much of what was happening to Kyle was taking place in a dream made a lot of sense, but it's also a story device that annoys me to no end so it made perfect sense to me why I had so much trouble with this book.The writing is beautiful. And it's a quick read (if you can get past the repetition of guilt in Kyle's head). But this book in no way packed the same emotional punches as "Five Feet Apart" and for that, I was disappointed.

I was really engrossed in this book until I felt like a boomerang between the back & forth of tragedy & relief. I felt like the ending was drug out & very unbelievable.

Oh you cannot beat a good YA story.All This Time is a fantastical tale about firsts: first love, first heartbreak and first time that you recover. It tells of the strange triangle of Kyle, Kimberly and Maggie. When Kyle and Kimberly break up Kyle eventually starts to have feelings for Marley but just how real are those feelings? We travel this emotional journey to find out.Okay, so there are elements of this book that do require you to suspend your disbelief but if you manage to do that then this is a fantastic romance that has you absolutely rooting for the main characters.What Lippincott and Daughtry do brilliantly is throw in some cracking twists that keep you on your toes and you genuinely do not see them coming.Overall, All This Time is an good book that is easy to pick up and difficult to put down.All This Time by Rachael Lippincott and Mikki Daughtry is available now.

Took me a while to read then when I started I finished in a couple days. This book had an amazing plot twist. You truly never knew where it was going to end. It made me sad, cry, and smile with happiness all at the same time. Definitely worth the read. Not a follow up to five feet apart as some people think, but I didnt expect it to be. 5 feet apart is fab in its own right, but I think i enjoyed this much more. Thanks for a great read, was super sad when it ended, wish there was a book 2 ❤️

this book had such a nice plot twist! and the ending was great, you need to get it!

Book Title: All This TimeAuthor: Mikki Daughtry & Rachael LippincottFormat: PaperbackBook Title: The book title is absolutely appropriate to the story.Book Cover: The cover is absolutely adorable and one of the reasons I picked the book.My review:      The story explores the possibility of Can a person find true love after they've lost everything? It would be impossible to summarize the story line without giving away the twist and surprises that the authors have weaved into the story. All I'll say is that go in blind and enjoy the journey.       The story covers topics like grief, guilt, d**th, me**al illness, identity crisis and they've been so wonderfully dealt with that by the end of the story I was left a sobbing mess! Those m*ing twists that were incorporated - I never did see them coming! I almost had a heart-at*ack not once but twice! This book was a one sitting read for me!        Some sentences have so much wisdom that they'll stay with you even after you're done with the book. What I was delighted about was to see the whole story through a male perspective and it has definitely been an interesting change! The first half of the book would have been a three star read for me but that second half of the book is what totally changed my perspective for the book!        Overall, I absolutely enjoyed the friendship of different characters, the love and care portrayed, the life lessons they leave us with and this is exactly the kind of book I'd want my year to end with!Final VerdictTitle: 4/5Cover: 4/5Plot:4/5Characters:4.5/5Language and Vocabulary: 4/5Final overall rating:4.25 /5

Not suitable for a 10 year old! The cover looks very inviting, and it was on display with other books for this age group. However it has rude words and the subject matter is not appropriate.