As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and true love: is anything meant to be? I also thought about this book pretty much the entire time that I was listening to it and I have a feeling Hannah will stay with me for a very long time!

Yes, I believe in good things happening when most part of our lives end up getting more shitty than we expected. Unfortunately, the characters were boring and unidimensional, the plot(s) were puerile and passé, and the dialog was redundant, even within the single stories.So if you re not a sucker for fate/choices stuff and want a book that excites you, you better not read this one. A heartfelt, witty and scintillating journey from one parallel universe to another; Maybe in Another Life takes the concept of fate and makes it tangible and engrossing; I couldn't put this book down! Even though they loved each other, after high school, life just took them in separate directions and they’d drifted apart. One storyline follows Hannah going home with her friends, and the other is after she decides to stay with Ethan.

At its simplest, it’s that romantic love and friend love are not the same thing, and I’m not in romantic love with them. If you’re looking for a book that is original, well-written, will make you think and make you feel, this is one I would recommend. Hannah was a wonderful main character who felt so authentic, and although both endings veer towards the happy, neither one provides a perfectly smooth path. In that time I have been jolted into the realisation that a book which is so thought provoking, and keeps popping around in my head is, indeed, one worthy of a fine review.

And then, one balmy August morning a week before the beginning of my senior year of high school, Ethan got into his parents’ car and left for Northern California. This book fell into my hands and a pivotal moment of my life and I am so looking forward to reading more from this author. Does it matter that once I heard his wife’s voice, once I knew the names of his children, I never spoke to him again? The underlying theme that can be found in all three is that the choices we make ALL have consequences: some positive, some negative, and the most important aspect of that is that we take ownership of them. Taylor Jenkins Reid has blown me away again with Maybe in Another Life, another exceptionally beautiful, powerfully thought-provoking book, this one about destiny and soulmates and the choices we make.