Maybe in Another Life: A Novel

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A heartfelt, witty and scintillating journey from one parallel universe to another; Maybe in Another Life takes the concept of fate and makes it tangible and engrossing; I couldn't put this book down! All the books I’ve read by Reid has at least one man cheating and I just find that quite interesting.

From the acclaimed author of Forever, Interrupted and After I Do comes a breathtaking novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold—with stunningly different results. When Hannah doesn’t go home with Ethan, something big happens to her that makes her meet a night nurse named Henry. Overall, while I found this to be a fluffy and very readable book, in retrospect I’m left wondering how I managed to enjoy it so much. I started considering schools in Boston and New York, since living on the East Coast would make it easier to get to London. In the storyline where she chooses to stay out, I found her to be impulsive, a little selfish and just not particularly likeable.Each chapter after that would just switch between these two parallel realities and, because you only got one chapter at a time, it really kept you eager to keep reading because you’d always be left hanging on the brink of wanting ‘more’ from each of these realities. I was rooting for Hannah in both and in some ways no matter which direction your life takes or what decisions are made things can and will work out. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. And as a person who doesn’t generally believe in fate, it was immensely refreshing to see how the author never says “There is no such thing as fate!

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It was part of introducing how Hannah and Gabby are best friends but Hannah is white and Gabby is Black and it’s no big deal. One storyline follows Hannah going home with her friends, and the other is after she decides to stay with Ethan. The girl whose apartment I was subletting gave me two weeks’ notice that she needed the apartment back. This 2015 release is more about using an alterative pathway to see how our lives can pan out very differently through one seemingly simple act.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In each life, she’s found her soul mate, but she doesn’t know about the ‘other’ life so she’s completely unaware of even the potential of there being anything different than the reality she knows and the man she loves. I run toward her, and as I get closer, I can see that she has drawn a picture of me next to my name.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I fly a fair amount, and I can tell you, with any flight, it’s really only takeoff and landing that are hard. I thought it would be the most fair to read the one that appealed to me the most, and that was this one. In alternating chapters, Hannah both falls once again for Ethan, and heads in the opposite direction. She heads back to her hometown of Los Angeles, meets up with her best friend Gabby, and then finds herself in a bar and facing her high school boyfriend, Ethan. Her bestie Gabby's family took her in during her earlier years while Hannah's own family was abroad, and Hannah has been fumbling her way through adulthood, not knowing which way to turn.

Re-read 1/30/19: I liked this A TON but I'll be honest and say I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I remember enjoying it the first time. I've become fond of Hannah's character, even if there were times I found her a little annoying and a bit of a loser. The way this portrayed that sometimes a seemingly wrong decision can lead you down a path that actually might lead you to a better future than you ever thought possible… and no matter what road you go down, it’s possible to still find happiness is comforting and inspiring. I’d much rather be depicted with my dark brown hair and my light green eyes, but I understand that you can’t really do much with color when you’re drawing with a Bic pen.