This book is about a woman who is miserable with the day to day drudgery she imposes on herself trying to live up to her own perfectionism. Fortunately, there isn't a lot of whining and moaning about it before she time travels back into her past to take up her life where she was 7 years ago, a few months before she met her husband and ended up where she was. The author just sets the scene and then gets the story rolling. There is no extensive conversation about time travelling either.
On the one hand, I really did enjoy this book because I could relate to a lot of what Jillian was feeling and I loved the little references to all the popular women's magazines that I actually read too. On the other hand, I absolutely hated the ended. I did like that there was some self-revelation that she had to be in control of allowing herself to express her own wants and needs. However, it just seemed like the whole ending was that everything that went wrong had been her fault and she just wasn't remembering right.
Plus, the ending left a lot of clues to what had changed in her life but didn't go into explanations. It just sort of stopped. I actually thought maybe at the end we would find out that her husband had also travelled back to the past to try to set things right in their marriage based on some of the things that he did differently when she was in the past and I think that would have made a nice twist.
Other than that, it was an enjoyable read with not a ton of predictability.
On the one hand, I really did enjoy this book because I could relate to a lot of what Jillian was feeling and I loved the little references to all the popular women's magazines that I actually read too. On the other hand, I absolutely hated the ended. I did like that there was some self-revelation that she had to be in control of allowing herself to express her own wants and needs. However, it just seemed like the whole ending was that everything that went wrong had been her fault and she just wasn't remembering right.
Plus, the ending left a lot of clues to what had changed in her life but didn't go into explanations. It just sort of stopped. I actually thought maybe at the end we would find out that her husband had also travelled back to the past to try to set things right in their marriage based on some of the things that he did differently when she was in the past and I think that would have made a nice twist.
Other than that, it was an enjoyable read with not a ton of predictability.
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