Ivy and Abe - Elizabeth Enfield

Description

Ivy is always destined to meet Abe.

But when is the RIGHT time?

At school, as a free spirit in her twenties or when she is married . . . to someone else?

Perhaps they meet when she is a widow in her sixties? Or maybe he remains a stranger, glimpsed only fleetingly.

Ivy and Abe are soulmates. But what if they meet at the WRONG time, and fate and circumstance stand in Ivy's way?

Told over Ivy's lifetime, across a series of alternate realities, Ivy & Abe is a story for anyone who has ever wondered 'what if?'

Review

I was really looking forward to reading this book but unfortunately felt a little disappointed. It's a great concept and could have been a really good story line. Unlike "Sliding Doors" each time Ivy and Abe meet it is in a different year - things in their lives are at a different point, sometimes one of them is married, sometimes one of them or both of them are widowed.

I'm not sure how many times the story gets told of Ivy and Abe, but I began to get bored. I started to get the stories mixed up - what was it they were doing in this one? I didn't care much for either character and so found it hard to buy into the book. In fact I liked the first story the most and maybe after that I just felt the other ones didn't matter to me.

If you can manage to read it one go then maybe you would enjoy it more and not get so mixed up as I did!

I'm giving this book 3 out of 5 stars. My thanks to Netgalley for an ARC for review.

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