The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks

I found myself on multiple occasions just wanting to give him a hug, and he always had his face stuck in a book so I could completely relate to that.Īll good time travel stories must have a good villain, and the villain in this book was particularly disturbing right up to the end. She’s one of those characters you wish was your friend: completely non-judgmental, full of the right advice, a bit weird in a good way, and there no matter what.Īnnie’s best friend Christian was probably my favourite character though. The characters.Īnnie Aster was just lovely. The bringing together of the different timelines was seamless and not too jumpy, and the characters were moved easily through the different times and so it made for an easy read. There was enough movement happening in timelines to keep my brain ticking over, but not so much that I lost track of what was happening. The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster was that good loopy time travel I like. When it comes to time travel, I imagine it looking more like a straight line that loops back on itself every now and then.

I’ve been watching lots of time travel shows/movies lately, and reading a few books involving it as well, and I really enjoy how it gets my brain working and thinking about how time isn’t really a straight line. Instead my mind went to magic rather than science (although I guess the time travel in this is a combination of the two). The time travel.Ī smarter person than me would have probably had an inkling of time travel when they read the blurb.

So here are just a couple of the things I loved most. I’m actually so excited about this book, that I had to sit and make a list of just a couple of things to talk about, so that this post doesn’t go on until the end of time. I breezed through this book in no time, mostly due to fact that I loved just about everything about it. You know how when you read a book that you actually can’t put down, and then when you do put it down all you can think about is picking it up again? I had that experience while reading The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster, the debut novel from Scott Wilbanks. Together they must solve the mystery of what connects them before one of them is convicted of a murder that has yet to happen…and yet somehow already did.” ( ) “Annie and Elsbeth’s search for an explanation to the hiccup in the universe linking their homes leads to an unsettling discovery-and potential disaster for both of them. Even more peculiar is Elsbeth, the truculent schoolmarm who sends Annie letters through the mysterious brass mailbox perched on the picket fence that now divides their two worlds. “Annabelle Aster doesn’t bow to convention-not even that of space and time-which makes the 1890s Kansas wheat field that has appeared in her modern-day San Francisco garden easy to accept. Title: The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster by Scott Wilbanks