Book Review: Again Again by E. Lockhart

There is always something that brings me to read YA, comfort zone?  Maybe, more life definitely.  Whatever it is, I love when I find some that has deep stories within and this one was sure one of them.

Again Again by E. Lockhart

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In this novel full of surprises from the New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars and Genuine Fraud, E. Lockhart ups the ante with an inventive and romantic story about human connection, forgiveness, self-discovery, and possibility.

If you could live your life again, what would you do differently?

After a near-fatal family catastrophe and an unexpected romantic upheaval, Adelaide Buchwald finds herself catapulted into a summer of wild possibility, during which she will fall in and out of love a thousand times—while finally confronting the secrets she keeps, her ideas about love, and the weird grandiosity of the human mind.

A raw, funny story that will surprise you over and over, Again Again gives us an indelible heroine grappling with the terrible and wonderful problem of loving other people. 

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In this book we meet Adelaide, a teenager on the summer before her senior year, her summer job is dog walking (dream job, right?).  Right at the beginning of the book we know that Adelaide and her boyfriend of always a year have broken up and she is pretty sad about.  But, at the park with the dogs she meets a boy and the book takes off from there.  Adelaide, plays a few scenarios of what could happen with this boy, if she talked to him or if she ignored him, or if an accident with the dogs happened and he helped her or if he just ignored her.  The world could go a lot of different ways depending on how one conversation starts or doesn't start.

We also get to see Adelaide's relationship with her brother, which in my opinion is the most important and the main point in this book.  Adelaide's brother has gone through something that changed their whole family, but especially change his and Adelaide's relationship and throughout the book we see what happened and how she can do to change their relationship to be the way they were before or leave how it is now or making worse.  What will she do?   

Again and again life can change and you make can the changes however you want, you just have to be careful how you do it.  Right?

E. Lockhart writes in a way that makes you think about life...think twice before you speak, and never forget to forgive!

4 out of 5 stars

XOXO,

Nelia