2022: Unfortunately, too over-hyped for me.

I'm pretty sure I read a book with this premise at some point in my childhood? I can't put my finger on what's triggering me remembering this idea so vividly, but I definitely had the feeling that I had read this before. Or at least the theme of being able to "go back" and try out different lives to see which one you'd be happiest in....

This isn't a bad book, but it's almost laughably predictable. I do think that there are moments that might resonate more with people who have suffered from depression or suicidal ideation. But I just didn't feel like this was the bombshell I had been led to believe it would be. Maybe if I were way more excited about the upcoming Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness than I am. Would recommend to fans of the multiverse theory and parallel universes and want to see a thorough example of how that might actually play out!

I read a review that said that all of the tragedy in the book was muted by the fact that there are limitless opportunities to fix things - yes! I felt this so much. I also don't feel like I got a chance to really meet any of the other characters in the book, because they all acted so differently (or were dead) in all of the separate timelines. There didn't seem to be an end goal for Nora - she didn't know what she wanted, and she didn't even want to live for most of it. Not a narrator that I felt like I could get behind.