It’s Monday morning and Emma is frantically trying to get to work while reading her emails and replying to messages. She doesn’t notice that her husband Dan seems a bit down and her two children are sullen and morose. By the end of her hectic day, she just wants to relax but she and Dan get into a fight when Emma realizes she forgot their anniversary, again. Dan storms out to walk the dog and is hit by a car and dies. That night, Emma goes to sleep alone but when she wakes up Dan is alive and it’s Monday again. And again. And again.
What I liked about this book:
I adore a good Groundhog Day/time-loop story, especially when the main character has to repeat their day multiple, if not hundreds of times. I love the repetition, I love it when the main character gets annoyed because their day is repeating again, and I love it when they learn that lesson they were destined to realize. A couple of years ago I read a book where the main character only repeated her day four times and I felt super cheated.
I also liked the way that Emma’s repeated days were similar but also different. Emma keeps doing different things in the hopes of preventing Dan’s death but every day she wakes up on the same day again. I never felt that the book was repetitive or tiresome.
What I disliked about this book:
I found Emma annoying at first and it took me a while to come around to her. Her people-pleasing attitude was quite annoying at times, especially when it seemed like she did things for everyone else except for her family. It was really satisfying to see her tell off her boss and quit her “volunteer” committee.
One of the things that Emma and Dan do is write letters to each other on their anniversary about the previous year and their hopes for the future. Every couple of chapters we read one of Dan’s letters from the years leading up to the present. I get that these letters were supposed to tell us about Dan and Emma’s backstory, their life from Dan’s point of view, and how they came to be where they are but honestly, I thought the letters were kind of boring and I ended up skimming most of them.
Although the ending is left open to interpretation, I liked this book!
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