Mind-bending, thought-provoking and emotional
Maria, a busy psychiatrist, wife and mom of two girls, with a baby on the way, is overwhelmed and exhausted. She's nearing her due date and struggling to balance her family and her career. A patient, Sylvia, who she has never seen before claims that she has been sent back from the future with the purpose of saving Maria's life. Sylvia gives Maria a cryptic warning and Maria thinks she must be delusional. Sylvia subsequently commits suicide. Maria does not heed Sylvia's warning leading to a chain of events causing her to wake up in her teenage body in her childhood home over 20 years earlier.
Maria is confused and cannot convince anyone that she is a mother who desperately needs to get back to her husband and children. She is diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric institution. She finds others like herself and discovers the reason she has been sent back. She is faced with the choice of saving a young girl's life and losing the life and people she has left behind in the future, or returning to her husband and children, but forever living with the guilt of failing to prevent the death of a child.
She Wouldn't Change a Thing portrays a unique perspective of time travel with a thought-provoking moral dilemma. It is well-written, suspenseful and mind-bending. The characters feel real and relatable and the events and circumstances of their interwoven lives keep the pages turning. The ending was satisfying and emotional and I wish there could have been more of the book dedicated to it. Likewise, there were some unanswered questions for which it would have been worth expanding the book. #BookishFirst
Maria is confused and cannot convince anyone that she is a mother who desperately needs to get back to her husband and children. She is diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric institution. She finds others like herself and discovers the reason she has been sent back. She is faced with the choice of saving a young girl's life and losing the life and people she has left behind in the future, or returning to her husband and children, but forever living with the guilt of failing to prevent the death of a child.
She Wouldn't Change a Thing portrays a unique perspective of time travel with a thought-provoking moral dilemma. It is well-written, suspenseful and mind-bending. The characters feel real and relatable and the events and circumstances of their interwoven lives keep the pages turning. The ending was satisfying and emotional and I wish there could have been more of the book dedicated to it. Likewise, there were some unanswered questions for which it would have been worth expanding the book. #BookishFirst