When a glimpse of your future lets you dictate the present…

Synopsis

Suddenly Maddy is right there… in her very own future. And it’s all wrong, yet again.

It happens to her every time. When the kisses lead to the bedroom, just when she thinks she might have found the one… Just for a split second, Maddy disappears, and she finds that she’s living her own life. But ten years into the future.

She’s only there for a little while. But each time, it’s long enough to know that she doesn’t want to be any of those future versions of Maddy. Because every man she falls for seems to lead her to a future that is just… wrong.

Until she meets Oliver. And the vision of their future is happy. Beautiful even. A little girl runs around, her braids flying behind her, giggling about how she wants sausages for dinner. She has eyes just like Oliver’s.

There’s just one catch. If Maddy wants the family she’s seeing in her future with Oliver, she realizes she has to break his heart now…

Would you destroy your present if there’s a chance that it could give you the perfect future?

Perfect for fans of David Nicholls, Matt Haig, and The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. The most unmissable ‘what if?’ love story of the year!

My review

Maddy Hart hasn’t ever been in a real relationship. Not because she is afraid of the commitment, but because she has a special kind of gift. Whenever she ends with someone in bed, in the heat of the moment, she finds herself in the future. She lives for a moment her life in ten years, with the man she is spending the night with in the present. And seeing that future, made her decide that she doesn’t want to be the version she sees of herself. But then she meets Oliver. What seemingly looks like a just crossing – paths – moment, somehow turns in them becoming roommates. And then feelings start to grow. The moment that Maddy sees her future with Oliver, and with a little young girl that immediately steals her heart, she knows that she is in. But slowly, as the relationship with Oliver in the present evolves, and Maddy sees more of her future with Oliver, she learns that the future she sees is not that easy to gain as she would want…Because it means that somehow, somewhere, there is a heartbreak in the cards…

When I started reading this book, I knew that I need to keep an open mind. Because if you don’t accept all the things that are taking place in this book, you won’t enjoy reading it at all. On the contrary, not believing will ruin this book for you.

I have to say though, that even with my open mind, I still had and still have many questions about Maddy’s gift. It also sounds very intriguing, having the ability to see the future with the person you are with at the present. On the other hand, I don’t know if I would want to know how my future would look like. Because life is a journey, where you grow, but also where you fail and make mistakes.

And while reading, it felt like Maddy wasn’t living her life at the fullest, as she let those visions hold her back. I believe that Maddy sees the future at those specific moments, but I also think that perhaps there would have been a way to change the outset future? And with that open mind of mine, I also believed that perhaps Maddy could change the future, and not let the future go in the direction she saw the glimpses.

But of course, if Maddy wouldn’t act in the way she did, we wouldn’t have this specific story and she wouldn’t cross paths with Oliver 😊.

Even if this would be the story of Maddy and Oliver without her gift, it would still be a great story. Because we see how a woman and a man meet, by sheer coincidence. And somehow, their paths cross again. They even end up living together, as roommates.

it was sweet, lovely and just amazing seeing Maddy and Oliver together. First as just roommates, than as friends and then even something more important.

Both Maddy and Oliver are the kind of people have been through a lot, and they both are still hurt somehow of their past.

Yet they are exactly what they both need, who they needed to find in their lives, for a happy life.

I have to admit, that the blurb already states that in order for Maddy to have the future with Oliver she sees in her visions, there has to be some kind of heartbreak. And I honestly believed that the heartbreak would take place earlier in the book. But that heartbreak takes place rather late in the book, as the focus is more about Maddy and Oliver finding each other, and their journey together, while at the same time Maddy tries to figure out how exactly that future came to fruition.

As Maddy is trying to link all the dots of her future, we also see the futures of the people around her. How her family and friends are doing in the future. Family and friends that with each appearance I cared more and more about. Not only there is Maddy’s best friend Priya, but also Maddy’s parents and brother.

Not only with Maddy’s story, but also the stories of those around her, we see that life isn’t always easy, on the contrary. It can be a real hardship, as life can throw serious lemons. But no matter how many lemons there are being thrown, we see that sometimes we need just a different view on things, in order to have a positive turn.

I absolutely enjoyed reading this book, as we see that sometimes a present pain and hurt is necessary to have the future of our dreams. But it is also a story about taking a deep dive into the unknown, and find the courage to make choices. Whether that choice is to open up our hearts, or the choice to pursue what we want from the future.

The author truly wrote a great story, putting a lot of emotion in her words. And even the additional of something mystical in a way, something that is not exactly my cup of tea, added a little extra in it, that made me love this book even more!