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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
this book is marketed, or at least geared towards a romance reading audience and i think that is very misleading. however, the first half of this book is easily five stars for me in terms of content. it's sad, and you follow lydia battling her grief after her world is upended by freddie - her soon to be husbands - death. the time/universe travel is interesting and watching lydia go between lives makes you feel for her. and then the second half of the book hits. don't get me wrong, i liked it, but it just fell a bit flat compared to the first half. it felt like the author didn't have a proper direction for the latter half and it really just... didn't work for me. i wanted to root for lydia but her random love affair with kris - who is never mentioned again - and going back to freddie in dream world to shake up their happy life there PLUS going to croatia randomly to find herself. like, i get it. girl needs to get away to discover herself but she abandoned everyone and it didn't seem worth it to me. and then ending up with jonah... i just didn't think it needed a romantic conclusion.
AWW, okay, this one pulled at my heartstrings. the story of losing the love of your life and then trying to figure out how to exist after the fact, yea, this was a minor tear-jerker. The concept of her living a second life where her partner doesn't die is so... omg...
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A beautiful story of loss, love, grief and discovery ones voice. Lots of tears and laughs and overall just a lovely book.
This book was lovely. It was different than other romances. The grief and love felt real.
I loved this story. I felt the love she had for her lost fiancée. It was perfectly written. The slow build to the end is exactly how this wonderful book should have ended. Everything about the flow of this book is perfect. Thank you for the opportunity to read this beautiful love story.
Wauw. Eigenlijk kan dit een hele korte recensie worden, want ik moet echt zoeken naar woorden om ‘In een ander leven’ van Josie Silver eer aan te doen. Dit boek is – net als ‘Een dag in december’ – betoverend, maar daarnaast ook meeslepend, hoopgevend, realistisch, hartverscheurend en tegelijkertijd hartverwarmend en een reis. Ik denk dat ik met dat laatste woord vooral bedoel dat je samen met Lydia in een wagon stapt en bij het slot je eindpunt bereikt.
Het begin is misschien even wennen en aftasten aangezien je niet weet wat je bestemming is, maar uiteindelijk zal je zeker niet teleurgesteld worden. Wat zeg ik: je zult je – als het goed is – een rijker mens voelen. Samen met Lydia die uit een diep dal moet komen, vecht je je erdoorheen. Er gaan jaren voorbij en daarmee ook belangrijke momenten, maar je leert op je reis – door de ogen van Lydia – bijzondere levenslessen die niet alleen haar helpen maar ook jou als lezer. En het is zo knap als een auteur dat lukt.
Het begin is misschien even wennen en aftasten aangezien je niet weet wat je bestemming is, maar uiteindelijk zal je zeker niet teleurgesteld worden. Wat zeg ik: je zult je – als het goed is – een rijker mens voelen. Samen met Lydia die uit een diep dal moet komen, vecht je je erdoorheen. Er gaan jaren voorbij en daarmee ook belangrijke momenten, maar je leert op je reis – door de ogen van Lydia – bijzondere levenslessen die niet alleen haar helpen maar ook jou als lezer. En het is zo knap als een auteur dat lukt.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
“I feel a tide swell inside me, this sense of myself as a whole, loved person, as owner of my own heart, a whisper and then a roar.
Me. Me. Me.” ~ Josie Silver
I have seen some people say this book is overly long and could have done with losing a 100 pages but I disagree. Lydia needed that time, that story to properly find herself before she could move on and find love again. If you had lost that time, that process, I feel like her new love would have felt convenient rather than honest and reel
I do wonder if I am the only person who didn't particularly like Freddie. He is full of himself and I feel like he dominates Lydia and Jonah too in many ways. They kind of orbit round his brash loudness and both only really know themselves as something to Freddie. It is why Jonah feels so lost in my opinion.
Is this book a romance? Kind of, but honestly it is a book about a woman discovering herself, finding out who she is and what she is capable of. The things she likes rather than the things she likes doing with Freddie. I actually found myself glad when she finally let him go, it was emotional too but I was cheering for her in that moment.
This book is beautifully written. I loved One day in December and One Night on the Island but they are both more conventional romances whereas this a much more than that, it is about grief and friendships and sisters and finding out who you are.
I loved it and I think it is a really rather special, and maybe underrated (looking on Goodreads) book.
Me. Me. Me.” ~ Josie Silver
I have seen some people say this book is overly long and could have done with losing a 100 pages but I disagree. Lydia needed that time, that story to properly find herself before she could move on and find love again. If you had lost that time, that process, I feel like her new love would have felt convenient rather than honest and reel
I do wonder if I am the only person who didn't particularly like Freddie. He is full of himself and I feel like he dominates Lydia and Jonah too in many ways. They kind of orbit round his brash loudness and both only really know themselves as something to Freddie. It is why Jonah feels so lost in my opinion.
Is this book a romance? Kind of, but honestly it is a book about a woman discovering herself, finding out who she is and what she is capable of. The things she likes rather than the things she likes doing with Freddie. I actually found myself glad when she finally let him go, it was emotional too but I was cheering for her in that moment.
This book is beautifully written. I loved One day in December and One Night on the Island but they are both more conventional romances whereas this a much more than that, it is about grief and friendships and sisters and finding out who you are.
I loved it and I think it is a really rather special, and maybe underrated (looking on Goodreads) book.
2 1/2 ⭐️ parts of this book felt soooo long. But I loved the last 1/4.
This is a difficult one to rate.
I love Josie Silver’s writing style. Her characters feel real and authentic. Her writing makes you feel like you’re right in the thick of it with them!
This is a profoundly sad book and I kind of felt badly while reading it. I also predicted the ending from the first chapter and was kind of disappointed that was the chosen route. The book does become a bit self-aware towards the end which diffused my annoyance a bit but overall, I found it a bit cheesey.
I’m definitely going to revisit this at some point. But maybe not for a while, it’s very upsetting.
I love Josie Silver’s writing style. Her characters feel real and authentic. Her writing makes you feel like you’re right in the thick of it with them!
This is a profoundly sad book and I kind of felt badly while reading it. I also predicted the ending from the first chapter and was kind of disappointed that was the chosen route. The book does become a bit self-aware towards the end which diffused my annoyance a bit but overall, I found it a bit cheesey.
I’m definitely going to revisit this at some point. But maybe not for a while, it’s very upsetting.