When you’re about to marry the love of your and suddenly you’re back in the past with another Love

Synopsis

Liv is given the chance to live one life-changing week over, but can she change her future…? And does she want to? A gorgeous, uplifting novel, perfect for fans of Shari Low, Paige Toon and Beth Moran.

When Liv’s boyfriend Kit disappeared on a hike, seven years earlier, she thought her life was over. But with the help of their family and friends, she’s pushed her way through the grief, and now, miraculously, she’s found a way to love again.

Until the morning of her wedding, when Liv steps through a doorway, and finds herself, somehow, back at the flat she shared with Kit: seven years earlier, six days before he left. Now, Liv has a chance to live those six days over, and change everything. If she gets this right, she can find out why Kit leaves and stop him.

But can she save him? And if she does, how will she choose, between the man she loved then, and the one she loves now?

My review

Liv is ready to marry the love of her life. The past seven years have been really difficult, as her then – boyfriend Kit disappeared and no one has even seen of heard of him again. It took Liv a lot of time overcome the pain, the grief and the uncertainty, but despite everything she believed, she found love again. And no matter what everyone may say or think, she truly believes that James is her One. Until the morning of her wedding, during all the final preparations, when Liv walks through a doorway, she gets the shock of a lifetime. Because suddenly she finds herself back in the flat she used to share with Kit, with Kit himself at home. Somehow, Liv went back in the past, seven years ago. And just six days before Kit left, there was not a writing on the wall of how things would evolve. So now Liv has the chance to get all the answers she has been looking for the past seven years. And perhaps she can change the course of the future. But on the other hand, when messing with the past, how will that affect the present and the future? And where will that leave Liv? With the man she used to love, or the man that helped her through the darkest period of her life and made her believe in love again?

At the start of the book, before I read just one word of it, I thought this would be a rather predictable book. Well, the outset itself is not predictable, but I thought that with Liv finding herself back seven years ago, she logically would like to make changes and then have to make a choice between her former love and her current one.

While the story starts exactly that way, I was pleasantly surprised that in fact, nothing of this book was predictable in the way I expected it to be. The only way that it was predictable, was about how things are way more complicated and secretive than Liv could ever think.

We all had relationships that ended. But I don’t think that there are many relationships that ended because one party just disappeared without just any trace…

As that is exactly what happened to Liv, I truly felt sorry for her. Because nobody should ever go through not only that heartbreak, but nobody should be living with that fear, all those doubts and that uncertainty. And with so many questions, I could understand that Liv truly believed that she would never find love again.

Seeing her seven years later and having found love again, just made me happy. Liv deserves to be loved completely and unconditionally, just like James does. I have to admit, reading how they actually got together, it was a bit strange. But that was just initially, because the more I saw Liv and James as a couple, the more sense it all started to make. And it has been seven years since Kit disappeared, so why can’t Liv and James be happy together?

The fact that Liv finds herself back in time, just a week before Kit’s disappearing act, made me wonder how the story would evolve. Of course Liv wants to try to not only figure out why Kit did what he did, but she also tries to change, to change the past.

And I liked it how the author gives her own twist to things. Because it would be just too simple if Liv could change things that easily. And to be honest, I kind of didn’t want to see Liv’s present changing, as Liv worked hard to get to the point she is now.

Talking about twists, I for sure was a bit flabbergasted when one thing was revealed. Because the book is written in such a way that you think you know what you reading, only to learn later on that it’s just not. I know I am not making a lot of sense, but the people who have read this book, will understand me perfectly 😊.

With this story we see how one event can haunt you for years, but that it’s not impossible to move forward from it. People grow from their experiences, mature from them, and can find something unexpected (or maybe not…) after all the hardship they had to endure previously. But we also see that no matter how well we think we know someone, do we ever truly?

I loved reading this book, as we see something impossible happening, but how that impossible thing gives a lovely and strong character all the answers she was looking for. And we also see how suddenly, with all the questions answered, there is a clarity in what Liv truly wants. Not only wants, but also what Liv needs in her life and in her heart.

This was truly a wonderful story. Not the story I was expecting, but it gave me so much more instead!