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pgchuis 's review for:
Come Again
by Robert Webb
4.5* rounded up.
The plot of this novel (bereaved wife goes back in time and meets her future husband 'for the first time' again, except that in her mind she is in her 40s and he is 18) should have been off-putting to me. I don't read time travel novels (not that this was exactly time travel) or paranormal stories or any type of speculative fiction. Nevertheless, I loved this novel. Perhaps it was because I also met my now husband very early on in our time at university. As I said, the time shift elements weren't taken too seriously (and the logic of them doesn't hold up to scrutiny anyway), but there was a lot of humour throughout, and also parts that made me think. I especially liked the paragraph where the bereaved heroine Kate realizes that being widowed changes the way you age: you and your partner meet when you are young and age together, and
'there's a part of you that sees yourself through their eyes - a part of you that is still eighteen. And when they die [...] you start to see what other people see instead.'
I loved the section where Kate meets all her university friends again on the first day of term, but in different circumstances from the first time around, and panics about changing the course of history. Toby was lovely and that whole strand was very pleasing to me. The final section was more or less a mad romp and went on too long for me, and the very ending was confusing, even in the context of it not actually necessarily having been time travel, but I'm still going to round up to 5 stars. I would read this again.
The plot of this novel (bereaved wife goes back in time and meets her future husband 'for the first time' again, except that in her mind she is in her 40s and he is 18) should have been off-putting to me. I don't read time travel novels (not that this was exactly time travel) or paranormal stories or any type of speculative fiction. Nevertheless, I loved this novel. Perhaps it was because I also met my now husband very early on in our time at university. As I said, the time shift elements weren't taken too seriously (and the logic of them doesn't hold up to scrutiny anyway), but there was a lot of humour throughout, and also parts that made me think. I especially liked the paragraph where the bereaved heroine Kate realizes that being widowed changes the way you age: you and your partner meet when you are young and age together, and
'there's a part of you that sees yourself through their eyes - a part of you that is still eighteen. And when they die [...] you start to see what other people see instead.'
I loved the section where Kate meets all her university friends again on the first day of term, but in different circumstances from the first time around, and panics about changing the course of history. Toby was lovely and that whole strand was very pleasing to me. The final section was more or less a mad romp and went on too long for me, and the very ending was confusing, even in the context of it not actually necessarily having been time travel, but I'm still going to round up to 5 stars. I would read this again.