And then the book proceeds by exploring both scenarios, in alternate chapters, and the path that each scenario leads to.

As the clock strikes midnight, Hannah must make a choice between leaving with her friend Gabby or staying with Ethan. In alternating chapters, Hannah both falls once again for Ethan, and heads in the opposite direction. And as you read the book, you’ll see exactly how that possibility unfolds and let me tell you, it kept my heart RACING!The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I found it so fascinating that there is no clear indication that one life was better than the other. The book almost feels like a choose your own adventure as two different timelines, two different possibilities unfold.

I thought it was going to be like magical realism, where she gets to experience both realities and maybe have to choose one. In the storyline where she chooses to stay out, I found her to be impulsive, a little selfish and just not particularly likeable.After 6 years of moving from city to city, floating from job to job since college and especially after reeling from a painful break-up, going back to L. A. When she was in high school, her family decided to move to London, and they agreed Hannah should stay behind and finish high school in L. Im a sucker for chances, choices and fate and question every now and then, if i did this or that, how would my life turn out. This 2015 release is more about using an alterative pathway to see how our lives can pan out very differently through one seemingly simple act.

and because of that, i can never walk away from one of her books without learning something new about myself or more fully understanding the kind of person that i am. As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and true love: Is anything meant to be? Written in a breezy, humorous style familiar to fans of Jane Green and Elin Hilderbrand, After I Do focuses on Lauren’s journey of self-discovery.

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I fly a fair amount, and I can tell you, with any flight, it’s really only takeoff and landing that are hard. She’d say we shouldn’t be complimenting each other on our looks or competing with each other over who is prettier.