About the Book
An inventive page-turner about the choices we make and the ones made for us.
One minute Kelly’s a free-spirited artist in Chicago going to her best friend’s art show. The next, she opens a door and mysteriously emerges in her Michigan hometown. Suddenly her life is unrecognizable: She’s got twelve years of the wrong memories in her head and she’s married to Eric, a man she barely knew in high school.
Racing to get back to her old life, Kelly’s search leads only to more questions. In this life, she loves Eric and wants to trust him, but everything she discovers about him—including a connection to a mysterious tech startup—tells her she shouldn’t. And strange things keep happening. The tattoos she had when she was an artist briefly reappear on her skin, she remembers fights with Eric that he says never happened, and her relationships with loved ones both new and familiar seem to change without warning.
But the closer Kelly gets to putting the pieces together, the more her reality seems to shift. And if she can’t figure out what happened on her birthday, the next change could cost her everything…
My Review
The concept of time travel has always fascinated me, so when I read this synopsis it sounded like one I would enjoy. I’m happy to say I was quite invested in this story. We start off right when Kelly goes from being a single artist in Chicago to suddenly back in her hometown of Michigan and married to a guy she went to high school with. How did this happen? And which life does Kelly desire more?
In addition to the time travel plot, there’s a lot more layers to this story. We have a domestic thriller woven in the pages, several suspenseful moments with the addition of new neighbors in Michigan, and friends and family battles. As Kelly tried to understand what has happened, her memories seem to constantly be changing. When a mysterious start up company that deals with – time travel – gets brought to her attention, she finally starts to piece all the connections together.
Overall, I thought the writing was very engaging and fast-paced. I was trying to figure out alongside Kelly what could have happened, and realized quickly this wasn’t going to be a meet-cute, I just want to time travel to be with my soulmate kind of story. This featured manipulation and betrayal, changing someone’s life because of selfish desires, and had plenty of dangerous moments along the way. The ending got a little convoluted to me with the new neighbors and their role in the story and the last few chapters seemed a bit rushed and thrown together, but in the end I thought this was a fascinating read that made you think – if you could time travel to make your life better but it affected the one you loved – would you?
4 stars
