Every Version of You by Natalie Messier
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I can’t explain this properly. Even the blurb doesn’t. But this part of the blurb might help:
Joey Vasquez’s life is the definition of good on paper. At thirty-two, she’s a lawyer on the cusp of making partner, she owns her house in Los Angeles, and she almost keeps pace with her doctor sister in her parents’ eyes.
When she reluctantly arrives at the very couple-y dinner party hosted by Elijah Aarons, the best friend she’s secretly pined after for fourteen years, she’s dismayed to find that the last person on earth she’d ever want to see again is also Alex Aquino. Your basic rich Silicon Beach bro asshole. The night couldn’t possibly get worse—and then she dies.
When Joey is given a second chance at life, she finds herself eighteen again, the year she first met both Elijah and Alex. Armed with memories from her first life, Joey is certain she’s come back to finally convince the one man she ever loved to love her back—so why does she find herself strangely drawn to the man she thought she hated?
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Natalie Messier’s book is very different. It isn’t really time travel. I love how she leads us through the thought processes we might go through should we have that after-life; choices we might face if we come back younger. Could we work our way through regrets and find a way to make the world better for us and others.
Alejandra Reynoso, Timothy Andrés Pabon narrated the characters very well. I loved how authentic the languages sounded.
Libby recommended this in available audiobooks. It was fun and thought provoking.
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