4.5/5 stars
280 pages
Published on January 11th 2011
Source: Goodreads
When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor’s world, she is forced to uproot her life and move across the country to New York City, to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she’s never met. In their old Fifth Avenue mansion filled with a century’s worth of family secrets, Michele discovers a diary that hurtles her back in time to the year 1910. There, in the midst of the glamorous Gilded Age, Michele meets the young man with striking blue eyes who has haunted her dreams all her life – a man she always wished was real, but never imagined could actually exist. And she finds herself falling for him, into an otherworldly, time-crossed romance.
Michele is soon leading a double life, struggling to balance her contemporary high school world with her escapes into the past. But when she stumbles upon a terrible discovery, she is propelled on a race through history to save the boy she loves – a quest that will determine the fate of both of their lives.
The review:
My thoughts?
Best. Book. Ever.
Or one of them at least.
Timeless is just one of those stories that its readers accept and love, even if it does have a less than pleasing ending (of course there's always the sequel, but I'm just saying...).
Michele is the heir to the famous Windsor fortune but her mother ran from that life before she was even born. When tragedy strikes her cozy family, she's forced to move in with the grandparents she's never met and settle in a world foreign and untouchable. No matter how much she tries, she has a hard time fitting in to the prestigious world of the Upper East Side until she stumbles upon a diary left by Clara, one of her ancestors. Traveling back in time, she finds a world she can thrive in and after meeting Philip, she dreads returning to her own time.
Michele is quirky. She's sweet, strong, good hearted and radiates creativity and talent. She's a songwriter, although she's never revealed that talent to anyone other than her mother, when she meets Philip, it's as if a door opens for her and her talent is released onto the world in lyrics so beautiful they caused a sigh to escape my lips. She's one of those characters that are genuinely nice and, in my opinion, totally adorable. Instead of snapping at you and rarely using anything other than irony, Michele prefers to soothe you with gentle words and coax you to your goal. I love this about her. Unlike other authors, Alexandra Monir has created a character who's honestly hard to dislike and that really brings her story together.
Philip. Oh Philip... *swoon* I spend my nights drooling over you... *sigh*. Anyway, Philip completes Michele. He's the one that turns her lyrics into songs. The one that fills her heart and completes a love that transcends time. In the beginning he's a curious character. he's engaged to the Windsor heiress in the 20s, follows the social rules but, from the moment he talks to Michele, it's obvious all that isn't enough for him. Michele is his ticket out of that world. Thanks to her, he breaks his engagement, stands his ground against his uncle's and mother's demands and pursues a career in music, becoming a legend.
Timeless is the story of a romance that breaks the rules of space and time, uniting two lovers born a century apart. It's one of the few books that had my heart racing at every scene. In fact, the love was so beautifully written that when the two reunited after so long but decided to stay friends, I accepted it instead of letting it ruin the rest of the story. I truly adored the book because it's one of the few that actually managed to make me feel as if I were the main character.
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