Sarah Jio is one of my all time favorite authors so I was super excited to get an ARC of this book. This book has all the feels. It makes you realize that life isn't perfect but you need to savour the little moments. The settings and sentiment of this book is perfect. Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book.

Imagine waking up everyday married to a different man from your past. A single day to live the “what if” of all the men that got away.

When workaholic Lena is dumped on the same night she thought she’d be getting engaged, she flees to visit her Aunt on Bainbridge Island. That night she falls asleep in the guesthouse, but the next morning she wakes up in Paris next to a man who is calling her his wife.

For the next 11 days Lena wakes up in a different place, with a different man in this groundhog day-ish magical realism novel.

I love a good time hop magical realism story and was pretty excited about this one. Unfortunately this fell flat for me. I love the concept and was really looking forward to a book with a little magic and a lot of self-exploration.

It delivered on the magic and pretty much nothing else. I found the FMC to be insufferable, a cardboard cutout of “perfectionist city girl” with a major lack of likable traits. Given the nature of the plot I expected to dislike the FMC at the beginning of book and then fall in love with her - that did not happen. I disliked her throughout the entire book and found her self-discovery journey to be more of a journey of what kind of guy she is into.

I am also very confused how some of these “what-if” husbands qualify as “romantic partners” - half of them were random guys she met one time…

Overall I couldn’t see the point of this book. Maybe I’m asking too much but I would have really liked a little character development.

This felt like a women’s fiction novel that would have been popular in the early 2000s, not a book published in 2024.

3⭐️ because it wasn’t horrid and the writing was decent, I was just bored and it lacked substance.

Thank you NetGalley and William Morrow for sending this book (eARC) for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

What a fun read! The whole time I was putting myself in Lena’s shoes. I actually had moments of my own life that were very similar to hers so it was cool to read something so relatable but not relatable at the same time lol. I enjoyed the characters and the different settings. It aloud the book to have a nice pace. It may have dragged on a bit longer than needed but that’s not a huge deal to me. Overall I would recommend this!


Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for a digital ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review..

Lena is just coming off a bad breakup and goes to stay with her Aunt for the weekend. When she wakes up the next morning she is in bed with a man calling himself her husband and living a life she knows nothing about. Everyday she wakes up with a new husband and a different life. She soon realizes that her qualifications for love and the perfect husband are holding her back from being truly happy.
I did enjoy this book but I wish we got to see more of Lena's life after she returns to the present day. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book for review.

Time loop first dates? Thai is exactly what happens in Insignificant Others. This book was well done.

Here I am with barely any sleep because I started this at bedtime (dumb) and didn't stop until I'd finished! Imagine if you could go back to people you've dated and relive it, but "seeing it through." Sort of like Groundhog Day, but only with relationships. I loved watching her go through each morning, living a new relationship. She learns about herself, what might have been, and hopefully, what will lead her to the "one." I really loved this offering from Sarah Jio, and I've read all her books. I have to say a bonus is that I know her love of Seattle. I always come away feeling like I know Seattle just a bit better.

Thank you to William Morrow and NetGalley for a digital ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for providing this book, with my honest review below.

I love a good wishes gone wrong / romantic fantasy book and Insignificant Others had an interesting plot line that had me eager to read it. Following Lena, who has a pretty awful break up (given she thought she was going to be proposed to), Insignificant Others opens leaving this reader excited to see what would happen next. Lena of course finds herself caught up in shenanigans when she wakes up in a strange apartment - in Paris - with an even stranger man and dog, one she’s married to and one who is her pet. Night after night Lena wakes up to a new partner and a new life as she quickly realizes that all of these life turns are where she could have ended up if she made different choices, seemingly insignificant ones that the time.

I loved experiencing new places and people through Lena’s eyes and was sure some of them were where she’d find the carousels of different lives ending, only to be shocked later. This was well written and entertaining but seemed to go on a touch longer than what would have been perfect to me, leading to a hasty ending, as Lena lives out truly long days in each reality. Past that, the Romantasy was exactly what draws me into this particular brand of the genre, and I think readers with little more life lived will appreciate that not every choice takes Lena to a dream outcome - just be patient.