Like outlander meets the Tine Traveller's Wife but not as compelling as either. Ultra wealthy controlling male love interests are icky. ( )

Wildly wonderfully romantic. This book, people, is why we read romances. Obviously this is a time travel romance. The hero is from WWI. He is perfectly written. The author creates the feel of a gentleman man of that era mostly with a dead on ear for the hero's word choice and sentence cadence. His actions of course just add to the perfect characterization. And this hero, Julian, is absolutely head over heels for the heroine, Kate. Kate is an ordinary young woman of the 21st century but when she eventually has an epiphany about her purpose in life you totally believe that the hero would love her.

The story was told completely in the heroine's POV alternately in 2008 and in Amiens, France in 1916. There was no awkward going for laughs thing with Julian not understanding the world he woke up in etc. This book was more serious than those written along those lines. There were still amusing moments where I smiled. There were moments where I teared up. And there were plenty of moments where I just wanted to sigh...

From the first time Julian tells Kate that he loves her. She doesn't know about the time travel yet:

Sweetheart, I love you. Of course I do. I love every priceless inch of you. I love you idolatrously, for a thousand reasons and I shall never stop. Hush," he said, laying his finger on my lips again. "You don't need to say anything. I'm a patient man. Just be easy. Know it's there, that you needn't doubt me on this at least."

He bowed his head to settle a silken kiss into the hollow of my throat, holding it there for what seemed an eternity before his mouth began to move up my collarbone, melting it in his wake. I tilted my head back, feeling the tickle of his hair against my cheek. "You... are the most baffling man," I managed.

"How so?"

"You just...you fell in love with me ...just like that?" My concentration kept lapsing; I struggled to hold onto my thoughts which I knew were important.

I felt his laugh against the skin of my neck. "Well look at you darling. You're love-at-first-sight material."

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Edit on re-read: wasn't as impressed as I was initially, but it's still solid read. I wish the ending was rounded out a little better, and maybe the science explained more... However, it's first and foremost a romance, and that seems done well.

An excellent take on time-travel romance! ( )

Sappy love talk ( )

The author more or less won me over in the end with this story, but it was a peculiar book. An exceptionally fade-to-black-ish, soft focus romance novel dressed up in a hardcover, slightly more serious fiction sort of package, Overseas does not really deliver in either category. It has some engaging moments along the way though, and I read it at a very busy and distracted time so I take some blame as a reader. Three stars seems about right. ( )