Book info

• Title My Future Husband
• Author Karen Clarke
• Year 2012
• Genre Romance

When Sasha meets Elliot a month before her wedding to Pete, the news he brings seems incredible. He claims to have arrived from the future, explaining that their timeline was knocked off course in 2010, preventing them from meeting, and begs her to find him in the present day. But Sasha’s wedding plans are underway and though she’s curious, Elliot turns out to be feckless, rebellious, and engaged to a glamorous and pregnant Belle. He’s not remotely her type and is instantly suspicious of Sasha’s motives for tracking him down, convinced his disapproving father has sent her to spy on him.

Thoughts

Naturally, my obsession with time travel led me towards this book but I thought it was an interesting take on the sci-fi trope, putting it into a slightly different context and genre. This time, we’ve got more of a rom-com feel going on, with our protagonist visited from the future and told that history has taken a bit of a wrong turn - things need to be corrected.

It took me a while to adjust to the concept, and you do have to hurdle over it being unbelievable. Somehow, it seems harder to swallow time travel when it’s in the more mundane everyday, rom-com setting. But Clarke does a great job and sells it well, so that soon you forget about the setup and enjoy the story of the characters and how they wind their way through life as it is, hoping to get to how it should be.

Overall it was an enjoyable story, a good tale, with excellent time travel elements draped over what is a good drama to read in itself.

Rating: 4 / 5