Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for the ARC of Given Our History by Kristyn J. Miller. All opinions are my own. 

Given Our History is a second chance romance with dual timelines. It follows Clara and Teddy as they grow up together, lose touch, and then find themselves together again. 

I usually love second chance romances, especially when they include scenes from the past. 

My favorite part of this book was the chapters set in the past. I especially enjoyed the ones where Clara and Teddy were still teenagers. 

While I thought this book was fine, I was disappointed in a few aspects. 

The present-day storyline was very slow paced. Nothing really happened in it until after the halfway mark. I also don’t feel like Clara had really matured much from her teenage years; she was still making the same mistakes instead of learning from them. 

I really liked Teddy as a character, but I thought that he deserved better than the way Clara treated him. He was patient and forgiving in ways that Clara didn’t deserve. I think in general, Clara was just a really hard character to root for because she seemed so selfish and so focused on a career that she didn’t even love that she threw away her relationships. 

Overall, I would only recommend this book to some people if you like career-minded women and slower paced romances.