All the Time in the World by Cara Bastone
Everett Ludlow booked the same charter to the same island to find the same wormholes at the same exact moment. A kindhearted skeptic, he doesn't believe in fate but is desperate enough to leap into the future to save someone he loves.
Forced together in the wilderness, two lost souls start tempting fate, and each other. Neither came here looking for a partner; they came to fix the pasts and futures haunting them. But the longer they brave the wild together, the more the present starts to feel like the one timeline worth fighting for. And as the wormholes draw closer, the scariest leap isn't through time at it's taking a chance on happiness together, right here, right now.
A heartfelt, funny, and utterly swoony timeslip romance—a warm, closed-door love story that proves the biggest risk is the one you take with your heart. A standalone return to the world of Maybe This Time.
Performed in immersive Dolby Atmos by a full cast led by Emily Bader (People We Meet on Vacation) and Lewis Pullman (Remarkably Bright Creatures). Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and the time-bending romance of The Time Traveler's Wife.
Review: I have been on a journey to try to read (/listen) to all of Cara Bastone's books, which are all TOP TIER on audio. This one follows Celeste and Everett, who have travelled separately to a remote island, both in search of wormholes that will help them time travel. They decide to team up since they are the only ones on the island and get to know one another as they walk across the island in search of the wormholes.
The knockout star of this book is the narration by actors Emily Bader and Lewis Pullman. Author Cara Bastone is passionate about the quality of her audiobooks, and it shows. Not only were the two voice actors amazing, but this also includes sound effects, like subtle bird and insect sounds in the background, which enhanced my listening experience as we travel with these characters through the wilderness. This was written to be an audiobook, so it is dialogue heavy and uniquely suited to listening format.
I loved all the wilderness content and how they bond through tromping through the woods together and camping out together every night.
This was the first Cara Bastone book I've read that has had a fantasy/magical realism element to it with the wormholes/time travel portals plotline. I didn't mind it at all, but it also wasn't my favorite of hers. I did like how the wormholes and the two characters ultimately all came together and explained the connection between them.
My biggest complaint is, as someone who tries to avoid using Audible and mostly use libraries for audiobooks, that this is an Audible exclusive. I did however recently get a free trial and this is included in the Audible Plus catalog.
Stars: 3.5
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