3.5 
 This was a really sweet book. I picked it up because the summary sounded interesting. However, the book is more focused on the romance than the story. There are time travelers, sure, and the main character, Jessie, sees flashes of an object's past when she touches them, sometimes. But all that takes a back seat to the relationships between Jessie, Steve, and Gabriel. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. 
 The beginning of the book is a little frustrating. Jessie spends entirely too much time admiring herself in the mirror, it gets a little annoying. It also gets annoying, as the book goes on, how she keeps hanging on to her relationship with Steve when it's clear that he's not quite the one for her. But I guess the Steve thing is just part of the story. 
 Things get better once Gabriel shows up, though. He's noble and old-fashioned and sweet. The relationship between Gabriel and Jessie is absolutely adorable, and this is very much a fluff book. There's no real villain except for fate and time itself. Something is going on, and time is running out, but as the reader, we don't know why, or what is going on, so things don't feel too dire or frantic. It's more of a relaxed-paced book. 
 Now, the really awesome thing about this book is how effectively the author made the reader feel the same confusion and disorientation as Jessie. I was having deja vu, I was getting confused because it seemed like the story had looped back, but the characters kept acting normal. It was absolutely brilliant. I wasn't sure if I was remembering events wrong (entirely possible, as I read mostly at night in bed) or if there was an inconsistency in the story, or what was going on. It worked itself out in the end, and when I realized what was going on, I was very impressed at how seamlessly the author had pulled it off. Seriously, it was really cool. 
 I also like the little quotes about time at the beginning of each chapter. Usually those kinds of things seem unnecessary, and I read them begrudgingly only because I feel obligated, but the author did a really good job with these, and I enjoyed them. 
 I'm excited for the second book. The events in the first book revolve mostly around the character relationships, but the end sets the stage for a new book that could focus a lot more on the glimpses and time travel, which had a lot of potential that wasn't really explored in Tempus. However, the ending was satisfying even without a second book. There were events that weren't explained, sure, but I didn't feel that they necessarily needed to be explained. Still, I know that there is a sequel in the works, and I'm excited for it =) If you're looking for a nice, cute, fluffy story with a little bit of mystery thrown in, Tempus is for you.