This book called to mind one of my all-time favorite movies, Sliding Doors, with Gwenyth Paltrow. I absolutely love the idea that one small decision or twist of fate can change the entire course of a person's life, and the framing of this novel as two storylines progressing in opposite directions was brilliant. For the most part, they both began and ended in the same places, but the journey to get there was wildly different, and with whom the journey was taken was different as well. Each path had its trials, triumphs, and heartbreaks, and that seems to be the point. All lives, no matter the meandering path they take, are subject to the full range of human experience.

I really enjoyed this book! I love the concept of being born with so much wisdom, as much as someone that is 100 years old would have. It was interesting to see how it played out, and I think this book was written very well.

Thank you to NetGalley, to the author, and to the publisher for this complementary ARC in exchange for my honest review!!!