Title: In
Some Other Life
Author: Jessica
Brody
Pages: 480
Release Date: August
28th 2018
Format: Paperback
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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