A beautiful love/timetravel/ghost story. ( )

Another great novel from Kelley Armstrong. I love that this book has time travel aspects, like A Rip Through Time, but manages to be a completely different story. I am starting A Twist in Fate, book #2 in the series, immediately. ( )

A STITCH IN TIME is a time travel romance complete with an impossible love and vengeful ghosts.

Bronwyn Dale has recently inherited Thorne Manor from her great-aunt. Bronwyn had spent happy childhood summers there and made a friend of William Thorne, a boy of her own age, who lived in the house nearly 200 years earlier. But she hadn't been back since a terrible accident when she was fifteen.

When she's fifteen, childhood friendship has turned into adolescent love. But there are ghosts, ghosts. that only Bronwyn is able to see. When one of the ghosts frightens her awake one night, she runs out of the house in a panic which causes her uncle to come out onto an unsafe balcony and fall to his death. Her mother doesn't believe her ravings about ghosts and hospitalizes Bronwyn.

After treatment, Bronwyn begins to question what she saw and becomes convinced that both her time traveling, and visions of ghosts were hallucinations. She goes on to live her life. She falls in love and marries but loses her husband to a fast-acting brain cancer. She gains her dream position as a professor of history at a university in Toronto. And then she inherits Thorne Manor and needs to go back...

Once in Thorne Manor, she remembers those things she had suppressed, and she is still seeing a variety of ghosts. She also finds that she can still travel back to William's time where she finds a man who is at first angry with her for leaving him all those years earlier. He's also a man who has never stopped loving her. They rekindle their romance but there are still many obstacles not least of which is that they each have lives in another time.

There are also mysteries to solve. A strange number of disappearances have centered around Thorne Manor and William has gotten the reputation that carries into Bonwyn's time of being a reclusive murder. His sister, his fiancée, and his best friend's wife have all disappeared under suspicious circumstances.

Bronwyn needs to solve the mysteries and clear her lover's name but is concerned that righting the wrongs will repair the stitch in time and separate her from her William forever.

This was an entertaining story. I am not a big fan of time travel but thought that Kelley Armstrong dealt with the problems in a creative way. Samantha Brentmoor did an excellent job narrating the story. ( )

A Stitch in Time is a unique novel, as it combines elements of time travel, ghosts, romance, and mystery altogether. I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, as I do all Kelley Armstrong's works - but there were a few historical errors I noted, for which I docked a star. Without the errors, the book would be a 5 star read. ( )

2.5 stars

I probably should have dnf this one, but for some reason I made myself stick with it. I didn’t like Bronwyn’s explainy voice, and William seemed too good to be true (after a very brief period of being a jerk). His attitudes felt very modern, and I think Armstrong tried to make a case for that being because he knew Bronwyn for so many years, but I still didn’t buy it. I did appreciate that there was a minimum of funny business with relationship angst, and I liked Bronwyn’s faith in William when there were attempts to turn her against him. Armstrong’s willingness to go against common relationship pitfalls that occur in romances is something I’ve admired about her in her Rockton series, and it was a strength in this book too. The book was hard to put down in the last quarter or so, and that bumped up my rating a little. I believe the other books have different narrators, so I think I’ll probably try the next, despite my disappointment in this one. ( )