A review by lriopel
In Some Other World, Maybe by Shari Goldhagen

3.0

Decent writing, but I got a little lost on the point of it all? I got a little judgy about some of the characters' more questionable choices, and I wished one story line in particular would have worked out differently, but it held my interest throughout. I didn't think the framework of the comic/movie they all had gone to see was necessary to the story. I guess it was some kind of a point about all of these lives that were only loosely - and yet somehow deeply connected to each other, who all experienced the same pop-culture moment at the same time...were we supposed to think that had a profound effect on any of them? I don't really think it served the purpose if that was the intent. I kind of wish, from the title, that this had done a more Sliding Doors type of thing, where we got different versions of the same scenarios where things actually worked out differently, or sometimes the same way, instead of just "In another world, he might have done this....but he didn't." I didn't love that device, and I didn't think it was very consistently used. Also the change of narrative to second person for just the one character was incredibly distracting. His story already seemed disconnected and unnecessary for much of the book, and changing the tense just for him made him seem even less like his story belonged. So yeah, had some issues/complaints, but in general I liked it.