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mwilkinson89's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
blemishedhearth's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
jdgagnon's review against another edition
2.0
I would rate this as a 2.5.
I had a hard time getting through this book and found the ending to be a little anticlimactic. I wish I could’ve enjoyed this book more. I may reread this again sometime later and have different opinions.
I had a hard time getting through this book and found the ending to be a little anticlimactic. I wish I could’ve enjoyed this book more. I may reread this again sometime later and have different opinions.
victoriaarosenberg's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
astraia_sun's review against another edition
1.0
I read most of this during a power outage and I think my time would have been better spent listening to my neighbors' generators.
The book had an interesting, if not wholly original, premise. A woman wakes up with years of memories that she's told are false? This could go so many directions! Psychological, gaslighting, full on twilight zone!
It was a bit more of the last one but it didn't have the charm or the understanding that the Twilight Zone had for its odd circumstances. It didn't go full on weird, and I wished it had. Either that or stepped back from the magical realism and make it fully psychological (which was a possibility right up to the second to last ending). Nope, it was disappointing and lackluster.
At the risk of spoilers, Annie got everything she ever wanted, no sacrifices made. It didn't feel earned at all and the time skips at the false endings ruined the pace of the book. Also the pages long flashbacks didn't do much for me.
I liked Jonathon as a character but he didn't deserve this dull book.
The book had an interesting, if not wholly original, premise. A woman wakes up with years of memories that she's told are false? This could go so many directions! Psychological, gaslighting, full on twilight zone!
It was a bit more of the last one but it didn't have the charm or the understanding that the Twilight Zone had for its odd circumstances. It didn't go full on weird, and I wished it had. Either that or stepped back from the magical realism and make it fully psychological (which was a possibility right up to the second to last ending). Nope, it was disappointing and lackluster.
At the risk of spoilers, Annie got everything she ever wanted, no sacrifices made. It didn't feel earned at all and the time skips at the false endings ruined the pace of the book. Also the pages long flashbacks didn't do much for me.
I liked Jonathon as a character but he didn't deserve this dull book.
messydepressy's review against another edition
5.0
Excellent writing style and kept me interested start to finish.
meganmarie1212's review against another edition
2.75
Annie wakes up in the hospital after a car accident and no one has any evidence she ever had her 5 year old daughter. After weeks of trying prove Hannah exists and fighting to figure out what happened to her old life, she starts to let go and live. She randomly switches back (wakes from a coma after accident) and the reader has to decide what actually happened.
megsreads's review against another edition
4.0
A devoted mother. A seemingly perfect life. A car accident that changes everything.
As a mother of two, this book had me captivated from the moment I read the premise. I just couldn’t imagine. How would I react if I awoke one day to find that the children I had spent the last few years loving and taking care of were suddenly gone? But not just gone, all my family and friends insist that they never existed to begin with.
A very quick read, I devoured this realm of magical realism in less than 24 hours. I just had to know: Was she crazy? Was it an alternate universe? Would she ever get her daughter back? McNeil’s enthralling literary debut really makes you contemplate how differently your life might have turned out if you had followed just one alternate path.
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What I believe is that people have an innate need to apply meaning to things that confuse them, and humans seem to have a natural fascination with the mysterious and spooky. It excites us. And we embrace it. But that doesn’t mean it’s real. And, more simply, memory is just—inaccurate. It changes every day.
As a mother of two, this book had me captivated from the moment I read the premise. I just couldn’t imagine. How would I react if I awoke one day to find that the children I had spent the last few years loving and taking care of were suddenly gone? But not just gone, all my family and friends insist that they never existed to begin with.
A very quick read, I devoured this realm of magical realism in less than 24 hours. I just had to know: Was she crazy? Was it an alternate universe? Would she ever get her daughter back? McNeil’s enthralling literary debut really makes you contemplate how differently your life might have turned out if you had followed just one alternate path.
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