pages: 449
read: 6/28 to 7/6/2019
book: 46 in 2019
I don't think you'll ever understand how much I loved you both.
When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard. Soon she’s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack.
But then Kate dies. And their story should end there.
Yet Kate’s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate’s there again. Healthy, happy, and charming as ever. Jack isn’t sure if he’s losing his mind.
Still, if he has a chance to prevent Kate’s death, he’ll take it. Even if that means believing in time travel. However, Jack will learn that his actions are not without consequences. And when one choice turns deadly for someone else close to him, he has to figure out what he’s willing to do to save the people he loves.
MY THOUGHTS
of course, i moved on to the next read without first writing my thoughts on this one so this one will be another short one.
ahm, this one was an okay read for me.
i would have been perfectly fine never having read this book.
its not that it was bad because its not at all but it just wasn't my thing.
obviously, this story is about a lot more like the emotions and sacrifices and everything that goes into the decisions that were made but it still didn't do anything for me.
there's also homeboy ignoring his friends, family, changing a timeline to where he dates another friend, to another timeline where the friendship ends to another timeline where all these actions lead to the death of someone else, to all. of. these. other. time.lines. that i didn't care for. how many times did Kate have to die in order for jack to finally be happy? life isn't always getting the happy ending that you "deserve". bit of a spoiler BUT maybe i would have liked it more if Kate never made it and idk, Jack realized that life is life and no matter what you try to do, it's life....i don't know.
according to good reads, it wasn't until i was 70% into the book that Jack finally said something that seemed like it was the right thing to say.
and this book is full of some beautiful quotable moments but even then, even now almost 4 months later....meh. it still doesn't resonate to me.
if anything, i just went into goodreads and changed it from 3 stars to 2. because its true; for me it was just okay.
i don't remember their being an explanation as to why jack kept going back. maybe it just kept happening because the whole point of it was for them to eventually end up together no matter what it took to get there. or maybe....i don't even know.
anyway, yea.
thanks for reading!
jack has been in love with Jillian for forever but his other best friend, Franny made a move first.
so hes hurt until he meets Kate on the stairs. then he realizes that he never really knew what love was.
they hang out, live their lives til idk, but she tells him that they cant date. its not her thing.
he eventually learns that she has (i think!) sickle cell anemia...and so she runs out of breath consistently and there is no cure for it.
she gets sick, decides to not talk to him anymore and somewhere in there, he learns she's sick, and then the time travel starts
little by little he sees what he needs to do to make it in time to save her.
he also eventually learns of a doctor that is working on a cure so when the book starts, that's what he's doing. he's give her the last shot she needs to survive.
this medicine costs A SHIT LOAD OF MONEY.
how does he get the money?
he hires Franny's dad. (Franny's dad has been in and out of jail and a super shitty dad to Fran) since he's time traveled, he sells his car and other shit to make some money to start placing bets. he gets Frans dad to do it since he's not old enough.
the dad does it. i forgot what the exchange was or why he agreed but of course he places the bet and gets the money.
in one timeline, he finally realizes that he cant change the outcome so he tells Jill how he feels and she breaks up with Fran and starts dating jack and so of course there goes that friendship. there's a party, jack picks up Fran, they fight, Fran decides to take a walk and never makes it to the party. turns out he was jumping fences and some white lady shot him so now hes in the hospital.
eventually i believe jack tells them the truth or idk wtf but it all goes back to "normal " and jack ends up with Kate.
and sorry....that's all i remember, but yeah.
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