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The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren\u2019s father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won\u2019t be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models\u2014and waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then one summer, Lauren\u2019s husband takes a job in New York and she moves back to Broad Beach Road, back into her childhood home on the shores of Malibu. Lauren looks forward to surfing with her dad again and perhaps repairing an unspoken fracture in her relationship with her mother. What she doesn\u2019t expect is for the boy next to door to return home as well: Stone, Lauren\u2019s first love, who broke her heart nearly a decade before.<\/span><\/p>\n

As Lauren falls into familiar patterns, with her family and, more dangerously, Stone, she finds herself thinking about all the choices, large and small, that have brought her to this moment. And wondering, finally, if one of them should be undone.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I really enjoyed In Five Years so I was eager to read Rebecca Serle’s new release Once and Again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I loved the premise of this book as it really gets you thinking if you had a ticket to be able to have just one do over again in your life when do you think you would use it, or would you always be keeping it there as security blanket.<\/p>\n

The story-line does cover some emotive topics and yet I found this book unfortunately didn’t have any emotional effect on me and that I believe is because I couldn’t connect with any of the female characters in this book they were quite cold unlikable characters so much so that I longed for the presence of Lauren’s dad Dave to bring some likeability and lightness to the story.<\/p>\n

Although this one didn’t hit the mark for me I would still pick up another by this author as I love the storylines she creates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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