Aperture

by Kirsten Thompson, Huenito (Illustrator)

A sweeping YA time-slip romance where love bridges a century, but history threatens to tear it apart.

When Sage, a first-year university student, discovers a forgotten camera in the library archives, she’s thrust into a world beyond her own time. The camera links her to August, a student who walked the same halls more than a century earlier. What begins as a miraculous connection soon deepens into something neither of them expected. But history has a way of pulling people apart—and as WWI looms for August, the closer they grow, the more impossible it seems to hold on.

Kindle Edition

Expected publication September 22, 2026

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sage doesn’st know what she wants to do at University. She is talked into joining a photography club that is researching old photos from the school, and she agrees to do the research. While in the archives room she finds an old camera, that she uses,and it send her back in time to 1916 (before the US entered WWI). While there, she meets August, who she falls in love with.

Using the camera takes her back and forth, as it does for August as well. But August is of the age that he might join up when the US joins WWI, and so she worries about how to keep him out of the war. In the meantime, she tries to also do research about the students, that she is actually meeting.

Cute time travel story. There is a moral squad that doesn’t like August. We never quite learn why, though it is hinted that he might be bi.



Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. This book is coming out on the 25th of August 2026.