Review - In Some Other Life by Jessica Brody

Title: In Some Other Life

Author: Jessica Brody

Pages: 480

Release Date: August 28th 2018

Format: Paperback

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Synopsis: A fresh and funny young adult contemporary romance about how one different choice could change everything

Three years ago, Kennedy Rhodes secretly made the most important decision of her life. She declined her acceptance to the prestigious Windsor Academy to attend the local public school with her longtime crush, who had finally asked her out. It seems it was the right choice—she and Austin are still together, and Kennedy is now the editor-in-chief of the school's award-winning newspaper. But then Kennedy's world is shattered one evening when she walks in on Austin kissing her best friend, and she wonders if maybe her life would have been better if she'd made the other choice. As fate would have it, she's about to find out . . .

The very next day, Kennedy falls and hits her head and mysteriously awakes as a student at the Windsor Academy. And not just any student: Kennedy is at the top of her class, she's popular, she has the coolest best friend around, and she's practically a shoo-in for Columbia University. But as she navigates her new world, she starts to wonder whether this alternate version of herself really is as happy as everyone seems to believe. Is it possible this Kennedy is harboring secrets and regrets of her own?

Jessica Brody's In Some Other Life will keep readers guessing and find them cheering for Kennedy until the final page.

My Review: I loved this book, it is the only book so far this year to receive 5*. I think it was because I could relate to Kennedy.

Kennedy made an important decision about her life three years prior to the story beginning that changed the course of her life. She decided to go to the local public school with her boyfriend instead of going to the school that she really wanted to go to.

Every day on her way to school she goes out of her way to pass Windsor Academy hoping to see the girls she stalks online or to get a sneak peak inside.

Kennedy believes she made the right decision, she has a great boyfriend, she’s editor and chief of the school newspaper, she has an amazing best friend and she has a meeting for a chance to go to Columbia University.

Kennedy goes to her meeting and bombs it even after all the preparation she has done, so after the terrible meeting she goes to her boyfriend’s house and finds him kissing her best friend.

The next day she sneaks into Windsor to see the head teacher to see if she can get her space that was originally offered to her, while waiting she meets a lad who tells her she doesn’t want to become one of the Windsor zombies. On her way out of the building she sees the girls she stalks online and falls down the stairs hitting her head.

When Kennedy comes to she is in a different universe where everything is different. Kennedy now attends Windsor and is top of her class, her dad sold out and joined a corporation and her mum now works at home in the evening so she can look after Kennedy’s brother, the only thing’s that haven’t changed are that she still applied for Columbia University and her brother is exactly the same.

Kennedy’s brother helps her to navigate through her new life but she has feelings that she isn’t as happy as everyone believes she is and she starts to question if she had originally made the right decision. While she is in her new life she hasn’t yet had her meeting with the Columbia alum so this time the meeting goes better.

When Kennedy get her letter to see if she got into Columbia University she falls again and she goes back to her original life.

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Read in 2019: 26/30