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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent
Minor: Drug use
challenging
emotional
mysterious
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:
Yes
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
Loved this book. Reading it coming off "Dark Matter" is interesting because, while both relate to time travel, they are COMPLETELY different books and loved them both for different reasons. I think being 40 right now and having kids and friends that I've known forever whom are still in my life but I don't see or talk to all time time and aging parents who aren't like they were when I was a kid... I could really relate to a lot. The relationships really pulled me through this book. I also liked the references to 90s life, kind of like in "Ready Player One" but not quite as blately placed every 7 sentences.
I loved this book. I laughed and cried so much. Great messages about friendships, relationships, life, and death. Definitely one of my favorites to help remind us what is important.
If you grew up, as I did, reading and rereading Madeleine L’Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, this book is for you! In it, middle-aged Alice finds a portal back to a specific day in her past—her sixteenth birthday—a day which turns out to be a fulcrum on which her present swings. She makes one choice and she ends up back in the present married to her high school crush with two children, living in a luxury apartment. If she makes another, she’s an extreme sports photographer, chasing the big waves in New Zealand. Both are a far cry from her original present, single and working at the same school from which she graduated, where she’s not unhappy, but feels somewhat stuck. But in every present, her beloved father is in the hospital, his body failing for reasons the doctors can’t explain. This is tender story about choices (and very specifically women's choices), and nostalgia, and about that wish we all recognize to go back and do things differently, to live every single possibility. For those of us with only one life and no do-overs, books will have to suffice!
Heart-wrenching and beautiful. I had to put it down for a couple of months because the grief of losing my own semi-absent father and beloved grandmother a year & a half before still felt raw, but at the same time so much of the story was healing to me, and so beautifully imagined.
Sooooo good - and narrated by Marin Ireland! I think I will be thinking about this one for a while and really liked the story of a parent and child and the love they have for each other