Time for You by Elizabeth Davis - Book Review

Publication Date: 23rd Sep 2025

Genre: Time Travel Romance 

3.5 Stars 

One Liner: Fast-paced and enjoyable 

Daphne Griffin is a first-year residency doctor in emergency medicine in Minnesota. One day, she rides her bike to the hospital and crashes into a man who appears in her path out of thin air. Though unbelievable, the man says he is Henry MacDonald from Edinburgh, Scotland, 1885. 

Henry is disoriented and wants to go home to his mother and two sisters. With no one to help him in the present, Daphne and her friends decide to give it a shot. As Henry lives with them, trying to adjust to 21st-century life, things get a bit complicated for him and Daphne. 

It would have been a great love story if Henry weren’t from 150 years ago! With the time running out, Henry has to decide if he wants to stay or leave. 

The story comes in Daphne's (more % and in the present timeline) and Henry’s (past timeline) third-person POVs. 

My Thoughts: 

The premise sounded cute, so I grabbed this one right away. It’s a short book too (288 pages), which seems to have affected the pacing and development of the romantic track. It’s a quick read, too, after the first couple of chapters. 

In a way, I like that it doesn’t take a lot of time for the characters to accept the possibility of time travel, though they are doctors and science-based and all that. There are things beyond science, and having an open mind is more important. 

The side characters add quite a bit of oomph and fun to the plot. They are fun people to read about. It certainly helps since the FMC doesn’t endear herself with her attitude in some chapters. 

However, I did like the exploration of a person working hard to make their dream career come true, only to realize it may not be what they wanted, and they are unsure of what to do next. It happens! 

The biggest issue is with the romance, which ends up on the fast track. This plotline might have worked better with a slow-burn romance despite the fast pace. Since the love declarations came a bit too early, it felt too surface-level. 

For almost 70% of the book, we get only the FMC’s POV. I thought it was a single POV book until the switch happened. While I like the idea behind this, I felt this rather reduced the reader’s ability to connect with the MMC sooner. 

Still, the book is enjoyable and a light read for those who want something simple and sweet. It should work well as a palate cleaner or a breather between heavy reads. 

To summarize, Time for You is an easy, fluffy read with romance between a contemporary doctor and a 19th-century man. And oh, the concept of time-travel is done well. We get just enough detail to understand how it works. 

Thank you, NetGalley and Montlake, for eARC. 

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