The Love of My Other Life by C.J. ConnollyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Josie is a British woman living in New York, singing in a choir for a hobby, and working as a radio presenter on real estate matters. Then one day, on her thirty-sixth birthday, she has an accident on her bike and wakes up in a different reality. She's the same person (albeit thinner and with better hair and clothes), but now she has a swanky job in real estate marketing, she's married to a construction billionaire and lives in a gorgeous eighteenth floor apartment in Union Square in a building that was named after her! It appears that she has the same memories as her alter-ego until about three years earlier, the night the Other Josie met her husband Rob at a marketing function Josie had an accident on her bike and missed the do. Rob introduced her to the guys who run the company that Other Josie works for and the rest is history. In fact, this would be Josie's fantasy made true but for one terrible fact, in this life her brother and her cousin are dead.
Can Josie adapt and live in this new reality? Does she want to? What about Peter, the guy from choir she was getting close to? And if she does now get close to Rob does that betray Other Josie?
Told from alternating POVs we see Josie and Other Josie trying to adapt to their new lives, but when push comes to shove, will they stay or will they go?
I really liked this to start with, C.J. Connolly says she was inspired by Sliding Doors and Life After Life and I was enjoying the way in which they inhabited each other's lives. It reminded me of the British film Quest For Love starring Joan Collins. But then somewhere in the middle it seemed to flag and I felt that the plot had gone off in a spiral. Maybe it would have worked better for me if we had either had alternating chapters from Josie and Other Josie or just half from Josie and the other half from Other Josie rather than three chunks of each.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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