Ok, not fantastic

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I had been really excited to read this book, but I feel like it didn't live up to my expectations. I bet that this book will appeal to some others though! It just didn't do that for me.

I was drawn into the story because of the synopsis--a woman is drawn back into time to ... fulfill a destiny that was foisted upon her. She desperately wants to go back into the timeline she is familiar with, where she believes her husband and children are waiting for her.
Ultimately, I found it lacking but I still believe that this is a book that will resonate with other readers (just not me).


SOME SPOILERS AHEAD!
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I feel like our introduction to Jenny and Henry is.... so entirely strange. Like they were dropped out of the middle of nowhere, and connections from them to the characters we meet at the beginning--Maria, her husband, and Rachel (her secretary) were hastily drawn to meet a singular purpose. I was very confused when her portion of the storyline was dumped onto us, and the way they ended up intersecting in a neat little package at the end seem very heavy handed to me :/

Maybe I'm griping because it didn't have the ending I wanted, or because it felt too overtly religious to me (not sure that is what the author intended though). All this stuff about God (and/or their other iterations, depending on the religion one ascribes to) put me off a bit. I cannot believe that she has to go back in time.... to... save the sister of her husband. THAT was her big purpose? And Sylvia walking in at the beginning to info-dump all that and then swiftly killing herself? And the word "Repeaters"?? The writing itself was fine, but I think that I had a lot of sticking points with the plot that I couldn't fully get over.