If allowed to rate a DNF I would give it 4 stars. This is a great book but I chose not to finish reading it. It’s many multiple stories to listen to in snippets of time but not for 9 more hours. It would be a great book to own and to read a bit at a time. 

What I didn’t like was the amount of American history. I skipped pretty much the entire first section because of that. 

It’s more a verse story telling. There’s no character interaction. 
Starting of sentences are repetitive. “I remember…”

Not for me. 

Just could not get into this book. I really need to stop wasting my time of these celebrity picked books. 

I love Nora Roberts books but this one was just not doing it for me. It feels unrealistic and I wasn’t liking either of the characters. It was bothering me that the FMC was expected to share everything about her past but MMC shared nothing. It moved slow and the relationship was unbalanced. 
I picked this book up from a used book sale. The issue was paired with a Nora Roberts Christmas story and as this was also supposed to be but right from the start it was quoted as a snow storm that happened in April. There was no Christmas feel to it so I’m moving on. 

DNF’d at 31%

It’s a very Christmas-y story but there is a LOT of church and religion mixed in!!! I did skip a lot of it at first but it became laborious to keep doing that. Too much for this reader. 
Plus I couldn’t seem to get into the story. 

The book was dragging. Nothing was happening. I could not connect with any of the characters. 

When I first started reading this book I thought the premise was interesting. I often wonder what my life would be like if I had made a different decision when I was younger. And here the story is showing the outcome of both decisions. I was also drawn in by the "christmas". Unfortunately, this book isn't very christmas-y so there was the first disappointment. 
I found it hard to actually like the main character. I didn't like how she couldn't make a decision or have the back bone to stand up for herself. That she needed others to tell her that she was doing the right thing. I felt like I was suppose to be thinking she was so wonderful for choosing to "stay", for choosing to help Dom, for making the best of the worst situation. I didn't. But I kept reading.
The two lives became repetitive and very similar. There was so many opportunities for the different lives to take different directions but it became hard to figure out at first which one you were reading. That often took me out of the story which is a big negative for me.
I was done when we got to a point where Bea did not stop the interference from her family in her relationship with Dom. It was ridiculous that she just let that happen without saying anything. I should have been done when Bea decided to met later with a guy she met on the plane but would not give her any info about himself, including his real name. Oh well. 


Thanks to Netgalley and Boldwood Books for the opportunity to try to read this story. 

This is my first Matt Haig book. I was not one of the millions back in 2020 or after that read The Midnight Library (and probably never will be at this point) but I was expecting this book to be as good as "they" all said the last one was. 
I tried so hard to like it. I tried to keep reading the see where this was going, it started off just all right so it took a lot of effort when I was thinking about all the other books I could be reading instead. I kept reading to try to get used to the style and to find something to grab ahold of to keep my interested. I gave it my best shot but I gave up at almost 30%. There was nothing happening, in my opinion and I did not like the main character. And things started to turn weird, and unrealistic.
And really.... who responds to a letter from a former student who really is asking for help with a "letter" like this? 

Thanks to Netgalley and HarperCollins Canada for the opportunity to try to read this book.

Was just a bit too silly amongst a serious topic for me. Plus there was too much about the pandemic. I don’t want to read about it after it was the only topic for too long.  

It’s just not for me.