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A review by melanie_books
The Next Together by Lauren James
3.0
When Kate gets a new lab partner, a shy student named Matt, she feels like she's met him before. While internet stalking him, like any good university student would in 2039, she discovers Matthew Galloway, this one in 2019. Not only does he look just like her Matt, but he has a wife, named Katherine, who looks just like her! In 1745, a grieving Katherine moves in with her aunt after her grandmother passes away and befriends Matthew, the stable boy. A century later, Katy, masquerading as "Kit", goes to work for Mr. Galloway, a young war correspondent, heading to Crimea.
This was a unique story with a bittersweet ending. I liked how all the "Katherine & Matthew" stories played out in ways that were very different but with similar themes or jokes in each of them. The "status reports" throughout the book give the reader some sort of idea of what was happening but it's not until the end that you figure out why things were happening the way they did. I liked that each of the iterations of the couple came to a realization that they had known and loved each other before - that element made the story just that much sweeter and just that much more tragic.
This was a unique story with a bittersweet ending. I liked how all the "Katherine & Matthew" stories played out in ways that were very different but with similar themes or jokes in each of them. The "status reports" throughout the book give the reader some sort of idea of what was happening but it's not until the end that you figure out why things were happening the way they did. I liked that each of the iterations of the couple came to a realization that they had known and loved each other before - that element made the story just that much sweeter and just that much more tragic.