Author: E. Lockhart
Genre: YA, Contemporary
About the book: 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.
My thoughts: I requested this book from Net Galley as I really enjoyed We Were Liars, but this book was nothing like that. It was sort of a multiple universe story as Adelaide's story was told in different scenarios depending on what/how she or someone else reacted in different situations. It was hard to read in the beginning, but once you grasped the format it became much easier. It sort of reminded me of myself as a teenager, when I would replay a scene in my head by how I wished it had gone. . .
The important part of the story was Adelaide's relationship with her brother, and this almost gets lost in this format. I wish that there had been more attention paid to that storyline and not so much on Adelaide's love life - or lack of one. Overall, it wasn't bad and introduced me to a new format of storytelling.
