The Dream Daughter had a very interesting twist on time travel overall. It doesn’t feel like science fiction and that part is done very well. However, the time traveling piece in the back of your mind makes it feel unsettling. Carly is a widowed physical therapist in the 1970s who discovered she is carrying a child with a devastating diagnosis. Until her brother in law admits that he has actually perfected time travel and can send her to 2001 to get fetal surgery and save her baby. 

While in 2001 all the problems you’d expect from a time traveling plot occur, and that felt predictable…Johanna’s going home, no she isn’t, yes she is, Myra disappears, and somehow a major event of the 21st century is forgotten about by a time traveler which messes up everything.

Some parts felt predictable, but much of it did not. I’m still not sold on my overall opinion, I liked it, I was glued to it, but I’m not sold. Hence, the 3.75.  

I really liked this more than I expected until the end. It definitely kept me reading and I finished the end very quickly, but the loose ends felt very harried to me.