You know the book is bad when you start sarcastically comment on every other page...

I mean. I wanted to read it because it won Best Fiction at Goodreads Choice Awards and many people on booktube were raving about it, claiming it's their new favorite book ever. And it's short. So I should like it, right?

Well, no. The book is so predictable you know what happens from the synopsis alone. I wanted to know if the conclusion to all the hopping among lives would be something interesting, new, earth-shattering, but no, it was exactly the thing I'd thought would happen.

We know the story just from reading the summary. The conclusion is predictable. This alone wouldn't be a problem if the execution of the book made it enjoyable to read. Again, no for me. I didn't like the writing style, I didn't care about the characters, I could pinpoint every pseudo-meaningful sentence the author wrote for it to be loved and quoted by readers (‘I just don’t understand life,’ sulked Nora. ‘You don’t have to understand life. You just have to live it.’ Nora shook her head. This was a bit too much for a Philosophy graduate to take. Oh wow, so complex, so obscure!).

And my pet peeve! Please, authors, if you decide to write a magical realism novel, stick to magical realism, don't try to explain it. I know quantum mechanics is the most hip buzzword these days, but trust me, it just means your writing sucks.

And just because it was possible that the man was Ash, it was also possible that it wasn’t. There was no predicting every future outcome after a single decision. Going for a coffee with Ash might have led, for instance, to Nora falling in love with the person serving the coffee. That was simply the unpredictable nature of quantum physics.

Just stop.