On Lydia Bird’s 28th birthday, her fiancé Freddie Hunter dies in a car crash. Lydia is stuck in a cycle of grief until one night she takes a sleeping pill and wakes up in a world where Freddie is still alive. Now she is living two lives – one in the present where she is alone and one in an alternate reality where she is with Freddie.
I didn’t love this book but I didn’t hate it. I thought this book had a great synopsis and had a lot of potential. I guess it was a bit different than I thought it would be. I was hoping that the parts of the book where Lydia sees Freddie would be exciting but I found them to be kind of boring. I never felt invested in Lydia and Freddie’s relationship, maybe because he dies so early in the book. I felt the chapters where Lydia was awake were a lot more interesting.
I loved the relationship between Lydia and her sister, Elle. Elle was there for Lydia and supported her throughout everything. She was a great secondary character and I enjoyed all her scenes.
I thought this book was a great representation of grief. There were plenty of times where I found myself getting teary. The emotions were high, at least in the first half of the book. I’ve never experienced the kind of tragedy Lydia has so although I found some of Lydia’s actions questionable, I cannot comment on how she grieved.
I do wish this book was more of a romance. I thought it was heading in that direction, only to take a turn, and then come back to a romance in practically the last chapter. I probably would have liked this book more if the love interest had a larger role.
I thought this book was more about grief than love, but it was still a fine read.
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