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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
It took me a little to get into, but I really enjoyed this story. Alice Stern is turning 40. Her life is okay. Not great, but not terrible. As an only child with a dying father, she is struggling. She is reflecting on what she wants — has she ever truly been happy? Things take an interesting turn when she wakes up the next morning as a 16 year old. Her father is young and healthy — and it gets her thinking — what could she do to change his future?
This was such a beautiful love story. The short chapters made it easy to pick up and put down. I definitely recommend it.
This was such a beautiful love story. The short chapters made it easy to pick up and put down. I definitely recommend it.
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I loved the characters and how they developed. The slight twist at the end wasn't what I wanted, but it was oh so good. The overall meaning of the story was beautiful. And the true story of the author's own dad was incredibly moving. I'd recommend this book to anyone.
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Well, I loved this. I’m a sucker for time travel and an even bigger sucker for a good parent child story where everyone is lovely and just doing their best.
I loved loved All Adults Here this one is a tiny bit above average. The pace didn’t feel right, it reads like a first draft.
Alice is exactly in the same place she was when she was 16; same town, same job - give or take. Why has she not moved on and how did she get to this place in her life where nothing is as she dreamed it would be?
As she sits by her father Leonard’s hospital bed wondering if he can hear her, she wonders what she could have done differently. On her 40th birthday she wakes up in her own bed, in the same house she grew up in, although she is a bit younger - she is 16. How did she get here? Can she change anything? Will it make a difference?
If you like time travel books you will like this one. However, this puts a spin on the classic time-travel/romance novel. This novel uncovers the typical and not so typical father/daughter relationship and all the beauty that it possesses. - Pamela B.
As she sits by her father Leonard’s hospital bed wondering if he can hear her, she wonders what she could have done differently. On her 40th birthday she wakes up in her own bed, in the same house she grew up in, although she is a bit younger - she is 16. How did she get here? Can she change anything? Will it make a difference?
If you like time travel books you will like this one. However, this puts a spin on the classic time-travel/romance novel. This novel uncovers the typical and not so typical father/daughter relationship and all the beauty that it possesses. - Pamela B.
Despite the time traveling trope and the sci-fi writer character, this is more a literary novel about a father-daughter relationship than a genre mash-up. In This Time Tomorrow, private school gatekeeper Alice Stern is turning 40 then wakes up as her sixteen-year-old self. She’s no longer working at the private school but attending it. More significantly, her father Leonard is not dying in the hospital.
The opening section is a little lengthy in that it more than sets up Alice’s life as an independent singleton. Once she awakens in her former life, Alice has issues to resolve and a series of realizations abt how their lives could have been diff (so what if she nudges along some changes?).
Alice’s single parent dad, a successful sci-fi writer, is famous for his TV show about two time traveling brothers. She has a longtime best friend, Sam, who is part of her past and present.
I’ll get back to this later. Difficult to describe what makes the book moving without spoilers.
The opening section is a little lengthy in that it more than sets up Alice’s life as an independent singleton. Once she awakens in her former life, Alice has issues to resolve and a series of realizations abt how their lives could have been diff (so what if she nudges along some changes?).
Alice’s single parent dad, a successful sci-fi writer, is famous for his TV show about two time traveling brothers. She has a longtime best friend, Sam, who is part of her past and present.
I’ll get back to this later. Difficult to describe what makes the book moving without spoilers.
3.5 stars. Like all books in this vein, this put me in a contemplative mood about life’s journey.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No