Twenty-nine-year-old Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She decides to move back to California and live with her best friend, Gabby, and Gabby's husband. She is torn whether to start a relationship with Ethan, who she had dated in the past. Since they are both older and hopefully wiser, she decides to see where it leads. And then something happens that changes her life forever and she has a choice to make on where her life will go in the future. She can either stay with Ethan at a bar where everyone from high school has met up or she can leave him at the bar and go home with Gabby. Which ever decision she chooses will result in a series of events and take her life in a particular direction. This is an interesting Sliding Doors/parallel universe-type book about what happens when you take a certain path and what happens if you had actually taken another path instead. I really liked this book, although it was a little confusing in the beginning because you were seeing two different scenarios of what could happen to Hannah's life. I've never read a book like this before and at the end you really want to know which decision she actually made. In fact I so want to know what happens next, I’d love to see a sequel. (CG)
Maybe in Another Life, by Taylor Jenkins Reid, tells the story of a woman who has a choice to make - and her decision plays out in to two parallel universes. The summary says: "At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs since graduating college. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence in her best friend Gabby's guestroom. Shortly after getting back to town, Hannah goes out to a bar one night with Gabby and meets up with her high school boyfriend, Ethan. Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she's ready to go. A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride later if she wants to stay. Hannah hesitates. What happens if she leaves with Gabby? What happens if she leaves with Ethan? In concurrent storylines, Hannah lives out the effects of each decision. Quickly, these parallel universes develop into radically different stories with large-scale consequences for Hannah, as well as the people around her. As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and true love: Is anything meant to be? How much in our life is determined by chance? And perhaps, most compellingly: Is there such a thing as a soul mate? Hannah believes there is. And, in both worlds, she believes she's found him." Maybe in Another Life is out in July 2015.