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Learn about GENRE with Page Turner!

Teaching GENRE can be a challenge! Especially if you're teaching genre to 2nd grade students or other early elementary grades! In this fun educational video, Storyologist Page Turner talks about different types of genre including Fairytales, Mysteries, Horror, Myths, Fantasy and Realistic Fiction, Page Turner uses her MAGIC STORYTELLING BOOK to bring GENRE to life including her favorite genre...fairytales!

Watch video here -https://youtu.be/vVMpRliR2iE

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Plot (from goodreads.com)

How many times can you lose the person you love? Katherine and Matthew are destined to be born again and again, century after century. Each time, their presence changes history for the better, and each time, they fall hopelessly in love, only to be tragically separated. Spanning the Crimean War, the Siege of Carlisle and the near-future of 2019 and 2039 they find themselves sacrificing their lives to save the world. But why do they keep coming back? What else must they achieve before they can be left to live and love in peace? Maybe the next together will be different...

My thoughts:

I read this out in like 24 hours, and that was an amazing feeling. If there is one thing to say about this book, it is that it is definitely not a book you can put down. So much happens during these 355 pages, and it was a thrilling ride. 

Not many books make the rise of Jacobite and a life-threatening bacteria go quite well together in one book. I know, I know. They don’t exist at the same time, so it is not too weird, but it was still impressively done. I loved going between all of the time periods, and I found it easy to follow each story line. It is not exactly a time travelling book where every character jump between different time periods a lot, it is much more a “collection” of the different lives that Katherine and Matthew have lived, with each reincarnation being more aware of the previous lives. It is a tad bit confusing how it is all done, but I loved this aspect of the story, as it developed the plot in different directions. 

Okay, on to the romance. I was honestly surprised at how the romance was not such a big part of the story as I originally expected. Yes, it is about the fate of Matthew and Katherine and the sudden end to their love stories, but it is also about more than that. Though, I must say, I enjoyed the romance aspect of the story a lot. Katherine and Matthew were great characters, and I loved the chemistry between them. All of them were just fantastic. 

Though the characters, the premise, the plot, almost everything about this book was amazing, I did feel like the ending was kind of rushed and a bit underwhelming. It felt a bit out of place, and I had different expectations to what would happen. I don’t feel like I quite understand it just yet, but maybe time will help? I don’t know. I’ll definitely still read the next book, because I need to know how this all ends. Gosh, this better end well. 

Definitely pick this up if you like time travelling/historic/romance books that you’ll fly through.