Maybe in Another Life

This book makes me feel all sorts of things. It is a true romance book and I was waiting with anticipation any new moment I could read the book and know more about what would happen next. The last two chapters are the weaker point and would have needed to be re-edited. It is way too repetitive and this Jesse doesn't feel like a real person. I wish the author could have based this character on someone she knows to give him more consistency. Also, it was an interesting choice to bring Henry into her world when she hasn't met him at the hospital. Meaning that they were meant to meet, one way or another, either friends or lover. Same with Ethan in the parallel version, I guess. I liked it better than After I do, but still not as much as The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, which was so well written. I just found on her instagram that her new book Malibu Rising will be out on June 1st! Excited!

Edit: It's available on netgalley and I requested it! I might read it earlier than I thought huhuhu ^^

But to come back to Maybe In Another Life, it is the story of this 29 year old woman who has been living in many cities and decides to come back to her hometown Los Angeles. She stays with her best friend Gabby and meets again her first love Ethan at a bar. In one instance, she stays the night with him, in the other, she goes back home with Gabby. In the first instance, she ends up pregnant with her ex-married-man-boyfriend-in-new-york, gets a job, and a car, and separates with Ethan before going back together. In the other, she got hit by a car, lost her baby, and fell in love with her night nurse, until finally marrying him. And Gabby in both instances get a divorce and goes back with her high school crush. That part I didn't like, but it was just to close the loop and make sure everyone was happy. And there were a lot of cinnamon rolls huhuhu. I liked this part ^^

She is not very good at talking or describing people of colors or queer people, but well, at least she is trying and actually includes a diverse cast in her books.

Read and reviewed: 2021-02-27