Maybe in Another Life: A Novel

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At the time, we assured each other that it was just because the timing was wrong and the distance was hard. After breaking up with her boyfriend she decides to move home to Los Angeles, and stay temporarily with her best friend Gabby and her husband, Mark. This is a heartwrenching nightmare, but also the characters are funny and fun and there are a lot of cinnamon roll descriptions. Recommended if you’re a sliding doors moment enthusiast who really wants to have consumed all the media out there with such a moment. It doesn’t always need to be a paramount, life changing decision, but then again, we don’t always realize when we are making one of those.

Unfortunately, the characters were boring and unidimensional, the plot(s) were puerile and passé, and the dialog was redundant, even within the single stories. Her bestie Gabby's family took her in during her earlier years while Hannah's own family was abroad, and Hannah has been fumbling her way through adulthood, not knowing which way to turn. There are cringey moments in it, and even the sliding doors moment itself is a bit too big to really count. Gabby was offered a babysitting job that night and decided to take it instead of going to the dance.

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 understood their reasoning, but I didn’t care for them, so then major things happened I felt uninterested and disconnected.

We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. She’d say we shouldn’t be complimenting each other on our looks or competing with each other over who is prettier. After we went off to college, Gabby in Chicago, myself in Boston, we still talked all the time but started to find new lives for ourselves. Sometimes that road takes unexpected twists and turns, but the beauty of it is that sometimes you end up in a better place than you could have dreamed.High school sweethearts, first loves, broken up, as so many other couples are, when the inevitability of distance and circumstance separated them in college. the thing i love most about TJR and her stories is how easy i find it to place myself in the characters shoes.

And yes, some things may seem too convenient at times for the main characters (Hannah and Gabby) but they are things that can happen in real out of nowhere. But if anything, that just highlights the difference between the two of us, how much Gabby has changed since then and how much I have not. He didn’t even have a paler shade of skin around his ring finger, the way magazines tell you married men will. So if you re not a sucker for fate/choices stuff and want a book that excites you, you better not read this one.All in all, it was ok, but not one I will be reading again and not a great introduction into the works of Taylor Jenkins Reid.