Lena's life is proceeding along the trajectory she has envisioned: high powered career, supportive best friend and handsome, successful boyfriend. Tonight he is going to propose, right on schedule. Except he doesn't. Lena flees home to her aunt on Bainbridge Island. The problem is when she awakes the next morning, she's in a Paris bedroom with a sexy man. But wait! Lena knows him... That's the premise of Sarah Joi's entertaining novel Insignificant Others (#1,330).
Every morning Lena wakes in a different setting with a different man from her past. She has a chance to learn what might have been had she married this one or that one. Seattle, Ireland, Pennsylvania, New York. Different places, different careers, varying outcomes in terms of happiness. When Lena is able to put together the lessons she's learned from these fleeting glimpses of what could have been, she's finally ready to confront her actual life choices and decide where her future lies.
This was a fun read, but with one exception, all of Lena's alternate lives seemed to have involved handsome, well-to-do men. That was a bit unrealistic, but of course, this is fiction! Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
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