Maybe in Another Life: A Novel

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I’m blaming most of my discontent on Hannah (the annoyingly vapid main character), the author’s choppy writing style, and the repetition masked as ‘cute’ quirks.

life is just a series of breaths in and out, all I really have to do in this world is breath in and then breathe out.

And are you sometimes so adamant that if you had made that other decision, everything would have surely been better? In alternating chapters, Hannah both falls once again for Ethan, and heads in the opposite direction.

After I Do is a raw, unflinching exploration of the realities of marriage, the delicate nature of love, and the enduring strength of family. Unfortunately, the characters were boring and unidimensional, the plot(s) were puerile and passé, and the dialog was redundant, even within the single stories. There are two epilogues and I think I must have read them both three times each before I finally put the book down for good because I loved them that much! I was lying in my dorm room on my twin XL bed, the phone sweaty and hot on my ear from our already-hours-long conversation.

the thing i love most about TJR and her stories is how easy i find it to place myself in the characters shoes.

But even though a lot was happening, it was so well written that it was always gripping, never confusing, and loaded with feels. What I got from this book is that no matter which decision you take, some things are going to remain constant in your life. I love how Jenkins Reid ensures that the right people are in Hannah's life in both universes, at one point or another.I get it, though, her talent probably needed time to bloom and a lot of things can happen in a short period of time.

It's happy, it's sad, it's hopeful, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry and it checks off a lot of the boxes that I love in a book. side note: i read this as an ebook and there were a lot of formatting issues with it, which lead to confusing transitions between the two variations of hannahs life. Love and relationships feature heavily in Hannah's choices, but the real strength is in the wonderful, unbreakable friendship between Hannah and Gabby. When I think back on books I’ve read, I get transported to the moment of my life when I was reading that book.She’d say we shouldn’t be complimenting each other on our looks or competing with each other over who is prettier. This is a heartwrenching nightmare, but also the characters are funny and fun and there are a lot of cinnamon roll descriptions. Her family moved to London while she was in high school because of her sister’s acceptance to a ballet school, so all Hannah has had was her best friend and best friend’s family.