![]() ![]() ![]() Ranging across historical moments in the 1300s and 1920s to the futuristic 2200s, this well-paced, multilayered mystery reinvigorates the fated-lovers trope while exploring the freedom and suffocation that a fierce, timeless love can bring. Via dual perspectives, Miles impressively fleshes out the alternate timelines, seamlessly transitioning between them while maintaining consistent characterizations. Tamar is a musician, a warrior, a survivor. ![]() ![]() When an explosion happens at the airport, though, the amnesiac duo must find their way back to one another. The Sun Is Also a Star meets Outlander in this unforgettable and artfully crafted romance (Julie Murphy, number one New York Times best-selling author of Dumplin’) about two teens who relive their tragic love story over and over until they uncover what they must do to change their fate. Soon, however, it becomes clear that Tamar has one chance left at survival: an international cryogenics center. After a hospital stay, Tamar begins dreaming of various periods in which she is a different version of herself each time, she meets, and falls for, Fayard. In present-day Columbia, S.C., Fayard makes efforts to show devotion to “old soul” Tamar, whose lungs were weakened by the Covid-19 pandemic that took her mother. In what initially seems like just a contemporary story of star-crossed lovers, debut author Miles packs a genre-bending surprise as Black 17-year-olds Tamar and Fayard live many lives falling in love. ![]()
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