Holly Smale
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- Smale, Holly
- Födelsedag
- 1981-12-07
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- female
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Födelseort
- England
- Bostadsorter
- Hove, Sussex, England, UK
- Utbildning
- University of Bristol (BA - English Literature, MA - Shakespeare Studies)
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- model
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young adult writer
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- 20
- Medlemmar
- 1,675
- Popularitet
- #15,349
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 59
- ISBN
- 176
- Språk
- 13
- Favoritmärkt
- 1
Cassandra is a neurodivergent main character who knows what works and doesn’t work for you. She prefers routine (coloured jumpsuits for each day of the week, banana muffins) and doesn’t like change. But then she has the day from hell, where her boyfriend breaks up with her, she gets fired and the local café has no banana muffins. She can’t help but meltdown, but then she finds out that she can travel back in time. Can she fix her relationship, work and home life?
The reason for Cassie being able to travel through time and the limitations on it (she can only go back several months) are never fully explained. But if something isn’t working, she can just close her eyes and erase it to start over. It’s a cool idea, but it does get monotonous when Cassie edits and repeats scenes multiple times, such as meeting her boyfriend and various conversations with her boss and clients. Most of Cassie’s motivation is on how to ensure that her boyfriend Will doesn’t break up with her. Cassie is an intriguing character as she sees feelings in colours and has no filter when it comes to workplace conversations, but she just felt flat at times. It’s clear to the reader than she’s in situations that don’t suit her strengths but Cassandra seems to be oblivious to it. Likewise, it was clear that Cassie was autistic but next to no one seemed to realise it, including herself. I found that quite difficult to grasp as Cassie makes no apology for who she is and surely someone would have mentioned something along the way? She’s never a dull character but I didn’t really feel anything about her character because every time something was difficult, she just rewound time and started again.
Fortunately, the plot moves away from Cassie trying to get Will back (who seems to be a nice character, but it’s a little odd that Cassie is clinging so hard to a relationship of a few months) and into her family dynamics. This was more interesting and gave some more background on Cassie rather than just the time period that she’s stuck in. It does come with some awkward moments and makes the ending seem even more odd – just as Cassie seems to be making peace with what happened, making friends and resolving past tensions, she starts again…why? Her motivation wasn’t clear and it was a frustrating way to end in my opinion.
I’m sure there are more parallels to the Greek gods and Cassie’s story than I realised but I got sick of the references and just skimmed over them. The novel felt too long in places (I agree Cassie – time travel is exhausting) and repetitive in others. For me, this novel promised a lot but didn’t work for me. I wanted more on the how and why of time travel and why Cassie chose to go round again after things were looking up.
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