I honestly had no idea what to expect when I jumped into this one and I ended up loving it! I found myself listening everywhere I could and I walked around the grocery store with a huge smile on my face as I was towards the end.
Cassandra isn’t understood by anyone around her, but she doesn’t understand them either, so she lives life in mutual confusion. When she loses the job she hates and the boyfriend she loves less than 24 hours apart, she has a slight meltdown in which she discovers she can travel back in time. She decides to go back in time until she can set things right in all aspects of her life.
While I ultimately loved this book, it took some time to get into it. I found myself wondering if this was meant to be a romcom because the narrator didn’t have any comedic tone in her narration. As things continued, though, I realized she was reading this is Cassandra’s voice perfectly.
I normally don’t like books that are realistic with fantasy thrown in, but the time travel worked perfectly in this scenario. My daughter is neurodivergent, and I believe I am as well, so having a neurodivergent protagonist was a breath of fresh air. Watching Cassandra navigate her life with all of the ups and downs and going back to change a situation based on what she now knew was brilliant. This is the first book of Holly Smale’s that I’ve read, but it certainly won’t be the last!