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A review by miss_magenta
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance by Jonathan Strahan
5.0
Someone in Time
[Short Story Anthology]
Time-travel romance. Sixteen different flavors of it, across the spectrum of identity and place. Some set in the future, others in the past, a few in an eternal in-between place or alternate fork in time. There really is something for everyone.
So many unique queer love stories in this collection! Roadside Attraction and Time Gypsy were hopeful. Unabashed, or: Jackson, Whose Cowardice Tore a Hole in the Chronoverse was a stinging study in regret. I liked that the book wasn’t pinned down by one type of love, just as it wasn’t pinned to one type of story.
For being so short, they were surprisingly poignant. Past Life Reconstruction Service brought me to tears. Romance: Historical was adorable. And The Place Of All The Souls had me asking some uncomfortable questions. The Difference Between Love and Time was strangely hilarious, documenting a tumultuous affair with the anthropomorphized space/time continuum itself. And A Letter To Merlin and Bergamot & Vetiver were really unexpected.
Only two stories didn’t connect with me as much (The Lichens and Kronia) but it’s just because they are outside of my style preference. The lack of dialogue punctuation in The Lichens made it difficult to follow.
⭐️ Overall, a lovely collection and one I’ll be revisiting. 5/5
A Few Tropes Included:
[Short Story Anthology]
Time-travel romance. Sixteen different flavors of it, across the spectrum of identity and place. Some set in the future, others in the past, a few in an eternal in-between place or alternate fork in time. There really is something for everyone.
So many unique queer love stories in this collection! Roadside Attraction and Time Gypsy were hopeful. Unabashed, or: Jackson, Whose Cowardice Tore a Hole in the Chronoverse was a stinging study in regret. I liked that the book wasn’t pinned down by one type of love, just as it wasn’t pinned to one type of story.
For being so short, they were surprisingly poignant. Past Life Reconstruction Service brought me to tears. Romance: Historical was adorable. And The Place Of All The Souls had me asking some uncomfortable questions. The Difference Between Love and Time was strangely hilarious, documenting a tumultuous affair with the anthropomorphized space/time continuum itself. And A Letter To Merlin and Bergamot & Vetiver were really unexpected.
Only two stories didn’t connect with me as much (The Lichens and Kronia) but it’s just because they are outside of my style preference. The lack of dialogue punctuation in The Lichens made it difficult to follow.
⭐️ Overall, a lovely collection and one I’ll be revisiting. 5/5
A Few Tropes Included: