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A review by pagesplotsandpints
Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
4.25
Read Completed 5/5/24 | 4.25 - 4.5 stars, but I think I'm going to be generous with this one. I may come back and change my rating depending on how this sits EDIT: I’m back as promised. Now that it’s sat, I’m going 4.25
I picked this up on a whim, not quite sure how this book would fall into a category. Was it contemporary? Was it romance? Was it scifi? I jumped in with only a brief read of the synopsis, waiting to see what it had to offer.
MEET ME IN ANOTHER LIFE was a wonderful surprise. The beginning starts off slowly but doesn't take long to let readers ease into the concept. Thora and Santi meet each other in one life and continue meeting each other across multiple lives. They're potential lovers cut short, teacher and student, husband and wife, father and adopted daughter, brother and sister, and on and on and on. I got a little frustrated for a while, I must admit, as we keep seeing these new lives without the plot really moving forward. While I really enjoyed seeing them encounter each other in new ways over and over, I didn't really know what the point of the book was. I had some obvious guesses (which I think the readers are supposed to guess) and I was hoping they were true.
I felt like it took JUST a touch too long for the reason of their connection to really start poking through, otherwise this probably would have been a 4.5 - 5 star book. If that had been a bit more apparent OR if some of those beginning worlds were a little bit longer, it would have felt so repetitive at the moment. I was worried this was going to keep going without any explanation and finally, we got more obvious clues that I could follow.
I loved how this was a light sci-fi concept (sort of alternate universes feel and more that I won't divulge so you can experience them yourself) and I really LOVE seeing character work like this. Both characters are true to themselves but also help each other grow. As they said in a book, you can't ever really know the whole of a person because you'll only ever know them from your specific perspective as your relationship. The only way you can know them is through multiple lifetimes. I really loved seeing them grow, struggle, become better people, and rise up from being their worst selves.
The ending was so beautiful and the reveal of everything was exactly what I hoped it would be. I didn't expect a couple things in the end and having seen these characters go through multiple lifetimes together, the ending was something that really stuck with me and probably earned this book an extra half star. I would LOVE to see this adapted as a TV show where this is the first season and season 2 would let the story continue on, because I'm a sucker for this concept and there could be so much that this has to offer if adapted and tweaked for show.
Anyway, I was really happy with this read and I love that it was something a little different to provide me with an experience that I was surprised by. This is definitely one I will be recommending!
I picked this up on a whim, not quite sure how this book would fall into a category. Was it contemporary? Was it romance? Was it scifi? I jumped in with only a brief read of the synopsis, waiting to see what it had to offer.
MEET ME IN ANOTHER LIFE was a wonderful surprise. The beginning starts off slowly but doesn't take long to let readers ease into the concept. Thora and Santi meet each other in one life and continue meeting each other across multiple lives. They're potential lovers cut short, teacher and student, husband and wife, father and adopted daughter, brother and sister, and on and on and on. I got a little frustrated for a while, I must admit, as we keep seeing these new lives without the plot really moving forward. While I really enjoyed seeing them encounter each other in new ways over and over, I didn't really know what the point of the book was. I had some obvious guesses (which I think the readers are supposed to guess) and I was hoping they were true.
I felt like it took JUST a touch too long for the reason of their connection to really start poking through, otherwise this probably would have been a 4.5 - 5 star book. If that had been a bit more apparent OR if some of those beginning worlds were a little bit longer, it would have felt so repetitive at the moment. I was worried this was going to keep going without any explanation and finally, we got more obvious clues that I could follow.
I loved how this was a light sci-fi concept (sort of alternate universes feel and more that I won't divulge so you can experience them yourself) and I really LOVE seeing character work like this. Both characters are true to themselves but also help each other grow. As they said in a book, you can't ever really know the whole of a person because you'll only ever know them from your specific perspective as your relationship. The only way you can know them is through multiple lifetimes. I really loved seeing them grow, struggle, become better people, and rise up from being their worst selves.
The ending was so beautiful and the reveal of everything was exactly what I hoped it would be. I didn't expect a couple things in the end and having seen these characters go through multiple lifetimes together, the ending was something that really stuck with me and probably earned this book an extra half star. I would LOVE to see this adapted as a TV show where this is the first season and season 2 would let the story continue on, because I'm a sucker for this concept and there could be so much that this has to offer if adapted and tweaked for show.
Anyway, I was really happy with this read and I love that it was something a little different to provide me with an experience that I was surprised by. This is definitely one I will be recommending!