This is such a tough book to figure out my feelings about. For people who are looking for a fun and lighthearted multiverse romance, this is not the book for you. This is not a romance. There are romantic elements, but at its core this is a book about grief and working your way through the death of a loved one. There were moments that made me angry at Lydia, our protagonist, moments that made me angry for her, moments that broke my heart, and moments that were ultimately hopeful and uplifting.

While I appreciate what this book was trying to do and how it did it (I don't often cry at books and I had three separate moments where I had to stop reading because I was crying) it feels a little repetitive. And I think there's a discussion that was completely ignored by the author of dependency on controlled substances. Our protagonist uses prescribed sleeping medication to visit her dead fiance in an alternate dimension, and it seems quite obvious that it becomes something of an addiction, but she never seems to suffer any sort of withdrawal symptoms in the stretches where she's not taking them.

then at the end she just gives them up, no problem whatsoever. Just didn't quite sit right with me.

I also thought her fiance was kind of a  selfish jerk. From the very beginning, there was very little thought given to Lydia and no anticipation of her wants/needs. For crying out loud, he invites his friend to come out with them for her birthday dinner without seeing if she was cool with it. And there was something about the way Lydia bent over backwards to make sure he was kept content that just irked me. One example is Lydia's hair. She'd kept it long throughout their entire relationship because 'Freddy preferred her with long hair.' Things like that just give me controlling asshole vibes. 

That said, I do think that the way Lydia's grief is depicted is actually very authentic, despite the fact that she is seemingly able to universe-hop in her sleep.😂 This was, for me, the best aspect of the story. While I found moments repetitive, I do appreciate that she didn't just lose her fiance, feel sad for a couple months, then bounce back and get on with her life. It can take months, even years to work through a loss.

I really enjoyed One Day in December, and appreciated quite a bit about this book as well. Josie Silver is an author I'm really interested to read more from in the future.