When BookTok reviewers kept raving about how this novel completely wrecked them, I couldn’t pass it up. Who doesn’t love a good cry?
Interestingly, none of the reviewers mentioned the time travel element in this book, so it was a lovely surprise to find a beautifully crafted family saga spanning several timelines.
While the story didn't crush me emotionally as promised, I was utterly drawn into June Farrow’s search for answers about a haunting family curse, her mother's disappearance, and a decades-old unsolved murder.
Top it off with a love story that transcends time, and Young delivered exactly what I didn't know I was looking for—an intoxicating blend of mystery, romance, and time-bending intrigue.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the author of Spells for Forgetting.
“Come for the fresh twist on time travel; stay for the love story.”—Good Housekeeping
A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND SHE READS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the…
As someone fascinated by life's "what ifs" and the paths we choose not to take, this book hit all the right notes for me.
Through Jason Dessen's eyes, I experienced every moment of his longing for the simple things we take for granted—family dinners, quiet evenings, familiar embraces.
While the story cleverly explores alternate realms through quantum mechanics, what really kept me turning pages was the very human question at the heart of the story: what would we sacrifice to protect the life we've chosen, even if another version of that life might seem more impressive on paper?
I devoured this book through two intercontinental flights—no small feat for someone who normally can't focus on anything but the plane’s slightest jiggle.
'Brilliant. . . I think Blake Crouch just invented something new' - Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series.
From Blake Crouch, the author of the bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, Dark Matter is sweeping and intimate, mind-bendingly strange and profoundly human - a relentlessly surprising thriller about choices, paths not taken, and how far we'll go to claim the lives we dream of, perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Ready Player One.
'Are you happy in your life?' Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakes to find…
Like Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter, this novel explores alternate realities, but through an entirely different lens. While both feature protagonists awakening to drastically changed lives, McNeil takes us down a more introspective, metaphysical path.
Annie Beyers’ determination to uncover what happened to the life she remembered but no longer existed—her marriage, her home, and most heartbreakingly, her daughter—pulled at something raw and real inside me. McNeil proves that stories about parallel lives don't need complex science to explore the profound questions of identity and choice.
Incidentally, I discovered this book right here on the Shepherd site, illustrating the platform's knack for matching readers with their ideal books.
What if everything you've ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true...just disappeared?
Annie Beyers has everything-a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It's a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician...until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed. In fact, nothing after waking from the crash is the same as Annie remembers. Five happy years of her life apparently never happened.
Annie's marriage is coming to an end. Now a successful artist living in Manhattan, she's…
When Syd Brixton was eleven years old, her identical twin vanished from a park in broad daylight and was never found.
Fast forward twenty years. Despite her lingering guilt, Syd's life seems idyllic. She has a great job at a popular pub. A beautiful home. A loving extended family. And best of all, a long-term relationship with a handsome firefighter who wants nothing more than to have children of his own.
Then it all comes crashing down.
One night outside the pub, Syd's favorite customer, Morley, is killed in a horrific accident. Moments before he dies, he gives Syd an extraordinary gift: the power to go back in time–and with it, the ability to learn the truth behind her sister's disappearance all those years ago.
But what if the truth is too painful to face? What if Syd would rather focus on saving Morley's life instead? Even against his wishes? If she makes the wrong choice, she could lose everything...her home, her family. Her life.
