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what I’m reading: the rehearsals by annette christie.

book reviews, books and reading · August 12, 2022

It’s the day before their wedding and Megan and Tom can’t wait to be married to one another. Tensions run high as family and friends gather for the big day. No one is getting along and then Megan and Tom have the ultimate fight which leads them to call off the wedding. But when they wake up the next morning, it is the previous day again, and Megan and Tom find themselves living the same day over and over again until they get it right.

I really liked this book. I completely did not know how it was going to end and I thought the author did a great job showing how Megan and Tom’s relationship changed over the course of their relived days. When I started reading the book, I was super excited for Megan and Tom to get married. They were so in love, and I really wanted them to resolve their issues. But as the book went on and we learned more and more I couldn’t decide if I wanted them to get married. I kept wavering as to whether they should stay together or not.

I was a bit worried that there wouldn’t be enough time loop and repeated days. I read a different book a while ago, with the same Groundhog Day premise, where the main character only repeated her day three times. Which, in my opinion, was not enough to make a difference. Here, I think Tom and Megan repeated just about the right amount of days, although I would not have been angry had they relived a couple more days. Each day brought some new revelation and I wished they had a couple of days where they just goofed off and had fun since nothing they did mattered.

Megan and Tom’s relationship was far from perfect but I think that’s why the story felt so real. Some of the choices the characters make are…not great. A lot of secrets and betrayals are uncovered over the course of the book. But as with most time loop stories, the characters learn and mature over the course of the book. The book is told from both Megan and Tom’s point of view and I really enjoyed that we got to read both characters’ internal monologues.

In addition to liking this book, I also loved the cover!


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