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It’s the last moments of 1999 and Liv and Nate have decided after several years of marriage to separate. Despite caring for each other, things aren’t working but when Nate at the last minute asks for another chance Liv has to decide - stay or leave? In two alternate timelines, readers see what happens with each decision.
I really love alternate timeline stories and any kind of what if storyline so was excited to read this - particularly after reading Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Maybe in Another Life which follows the same alternate timeline depending on one decision.
This was definitely my least favourite out of the two unfortunately as it felt a little bit simple at times, and also repetitive. I found the main character Liv a bit bland and despite being just a general good person, I really didn’t feel like I got to know more of her personality and therefore couldn’t quite understand the appeal of her to the men who keep falling in love with her. I also found that Liv repeated phrases and descriptions a lot and it grew really irritating! For example, every time Janet appeared, Liv would mention her ‘inner bitch’.
I did appreciate the look at alcoholism and addition in this book through one of Liv and Nate’s friends though i can’t say I actually liked that storyline (especially as I felt like both timelines felt repetitive and there was nothing particularly new about the second one).
One of the things you don’t want to happen with an alternate timeline storyline happened to me with this book which is when I finished the ‘Without’ timeline, I was not interested at all in finishing the second half which was the ‘With’ storyline. I ended up finding the With timeline a bit boring and so many of the same things still happened and there wasn’t that much of a difference with some things. I prefer the ‘being happy with different outcomes’ rather than the ‘fate will always give you only one person.’
I also, for some reason, found it a bit creepy and unrealistic that they had the same kids in the timelines despite them being conceived at different times. Weird.
It’s the last moments of 1999 and Liv and Nate have decided after several years of marriage to separate. Despite caring for each other, things aren’t working but when Nate at the last minute asks for another chance Liv has to decide - stay or leave? In two alternate timelines, readers see what happens with each decision.
I really love alternate timeline stories and any kind of what if storyline so was excited to read this - particularly after reading Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Maybe in Another Life which follows the same alternate timeline depending on one decision.
This was definitely my least favourite out of the two unfortunately as it felt a little bit simple at times, and also repetitive. I found the main character Liv a bit bland and despite being just a general good person, I really didn’t feel like I got to know more of her personality and therefore couldn’t quite understand the appeal of her to the men who keep falling in love with her. I also found that Liv repeated phrases and descriptions a lot and it grew really irritating! For example, every time Janet appeared, Liv would mention her ‘inner bitch’.
I did appreciate the look at alcoholism and addition in this book through one of Liv and Nate’s friends though i can’t say I actually liked that storyline (especially as I felt like both timelines felt repetitive and there was nothing particularly new about the second one).
One of the things you don’t want to happen with an alternate timeline storyline happened to me with this book which is when I finished the ‘Without’ timeline, I was not interested at all in finishing the second half which was the ‘With’ storyline. I ended up finding the With timeline a bit boring and so many of the same things still happened and there wasn’t that much of a difference with some things. I prefer the ‘being happy with different outcomes’ rather than the ‘fate will always give you only one person.’
I also, for some reason, found it a bit creepy and unrealistic that they had the same kids in the timelines despite them being conceived at different times. Weird.