While we sit in the space between, where there’s neither Outlander or Blood of My Blood (a spinoff show I was surprised to actually really like!), let’s explore some other books in the category that a particular two-hearted alien coined “timey wimey”—a literary space that includes the familiar type of time travel that was made popular by Outlander, Kate & Leopold, and, of course, Somewhere In Time, but also includes those other time-related phenomena that invoke shows like Quantum Leap and Timeless, movies like Groundhog Day and Palm Springs, and other pop culture spaces that I can’t particularly think up right now.
These can invoke the time traveler, who is capable of moving backwards and forwards through time with the help of either science or magic, or time loops, in which a person is living through the same period of time over and over. There’s the time slip, when someone unintentionally ends up in a different time period, and of course, there are the random ones that just…don’t have a name yet. Since Alex talked about time travel romance just a few months ago, I’ve tried to make sure to expand upon that list instead of repeating things. If you want more, I have written multiple times about time travel, including why there aren’t many time travel romances centering Black characters.
So here are some romances that veer away from the familiar “person winds up in a different, unfamiliar time period and stays there until they can get home” variety.
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