![]() When he wakes back up, he is at the exact place and time where he met Kate he remembers everything and it all unfolds, just as it did before, again. Jack has no chance to grieve before he falls unconscious. They make plans to attend prom, she suddenly becomes dangerously ill and is hospitalized, he learns she has been keeping her precarious health situation from him all along, and then she dies. Jack and Kate meet at a party, and they start talking and texting and dating. ![]() There is most certainly a Groundhog Day quality to Opposite of Always (Jack even name-checks the movie as he wrestles with his dilemma), but this story is far more serious. Let me put your concerns at ease right now: he nails it. Reynolds pulls off the trick of keeping a repetitive plot interesting enough to engage readers when the same sad ending stops the story in its tracks at the most stressful of moments. All of this is revealed on the book’s cover, which also touts the novel as “hilarious” and “heart-racing.” The question is whether or not author Justin A. ![]() It is not a spoiler to state that Opposite of Always is a novel about time travel specifically, the story of Jack traveling back over the same period of months again and again (and again and again) to save the life of his girlfriend, Kate. ![]()
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