ARC REVIEW : Hemingway's Notebook: A Love Across Time Story (Love Across Time, #5) by Jackie North

Soulmates across time. Two souls connected by destiny.

In present day, Jake, lonely and cut off from his parents, travels to the Chamberlin Inn in Cody, Wyoming to work on extra credit for his college seminar.

In 1932, Sebby labors at the Chamberlin Inn for pennies a day, wishing with all his heart for a better life.

While taking photographs in the room where Ernest Hemingway once stayed, Jake is flung back in time to the year 1932. There he meets Sebby who is living on the edge, half starving, a victim of the Great Depression. He’s been dodging rent collectors, getting behind on doctor's bills, trying to care for his ailing Pop.

Sebby falls hard for Jake with his movie star smile, but knows something is different about him. Jake wears strange clothes, talks too fast, and doesn’t look like he’s gone hungry a day in his whole life. He’s also the handsomest boy Sebby has ever seen.

Jake is drawn to Sebby’s dark eyes, shy smile, and gentle heart. Sebby is like nobody Jake has ever met. And though the year 1932 scares him to his very core, he needs to decide. Go home? Or stay and weather the Depression with Sebby, whom he has grown to love.

A male/male time travel romance, complete with hurt/comfort, true confessions, a shared bed, first time romance, the angst of separation, and true love across time.

REVIEW 

Hemingway's Notebook: A Love Across Time Story by Jackie North
My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Hemingway's Notebook is another winner from Jackie North , and I wish some producers read her series of the time travel men finding their true love across time, and make a movies from this series.
This story started with Jake who's stumbled in the past, in 1932 in Ernest Hemingway's room 18 and met the innocent sweet Sebby.
This was a slow quiet tale about two boys in the year of great depression in America, and had to survive it together, also falling in love deeply that one of them had to chose between the future or living in the past.
Sebby made me cry a few times with his innocence and his sweetness, and I loved how Jake adored him so much! There's also Pop, who's quite open minded about his son's sexuality. You cannot not love Pop, because he's the sweetest dad ever!

I loved how Jackie writes in historical language, made me feel like I was there, witnessing Jake and Sebby went though their life together and finding love.
I wish I could say more about this book, but that's always my problem. Finding words for a great book to review.

Hemingway's notebook, is a beautifully written love story with lots of bittersweet tale about the two boys finding each other. Sigh.

" As he fell asleep, he held onto Jake like a lost ship in a storm. And in Jake's arms the storm melted away to become a cozy harbor, full of lights sparkling on blue waters, and the sun pouring down turning the sand to crystals of diamonds. "

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