Published By: Atlantic Books
Pages: 416
Released On: 12/02/2026
In every lifetime, it’s always you…
When Lissa meets Ash, she can’t deny their instant connection. It’s like they’ve met before, many times.
Then, the flashbacks start and somehow she just knows: these are memories of past lives. And in those lives, there’s always one person. Always, she falls in love with him. Always, it ends in tragedy.
This time, Lissa knows she must do something different. Can the star-crossed lovers learn from their past mistakes and finally find their happy ending?
*****
Thanks to NetGalley and Atlantic Books for the advance copy of this title in return for an honest review.
I love Becky’s books, and they have quite simply saved my life, particularly her first novel, One Moment.
It’s quite similar to a novel I have been working on for a few years so at least I know the idea works and it has inspired me to revisit it.
I hate to say anything negative about Becky’s books because she is one of my favourite writers, and is a masterful storyteller with great character development, but this one didn’t grab me as much as her other books, it didn’t entice or engage me as much either. It fell somewhat short of my expectations, I’m sorry to say.
I’m on the fence about the format. Becky explains at the start of the book that she initially started writing the different time periods as separate chapters but it wasn’t working, so instead she interspersed flashbacks throughout the main story. And I understand what she was trying to do but I got a bit lost and would have preferred time periods separated by individual chapters so I could invest more in them.
The female characters were interesting to read about, very layered, and they had exciting lives to keep me hooked. But the male characters all felt flat and gave me nothing to invest in, and I felt no chemistry between anyone, in terms of romance or friendship.
It’s romance and fantasy and magical, but it also hits on difficult topics like divorce, remarriage, grief, death, depression, trauma, and difficult familial dynamics. So it does have many layer which helped keep it interesting.
I feel it’s a tad long, and tat is my main issue. It felt drawn out A lot of it felt slow and unnecessary and it means that by the time the ending came, it had all built up and I just found it lacked the spark I so dearly craved.
I think it was a fantastic premise and it was one of my most anticipated reads of 2025 and I adore her work so much, but it didn’t give me what was promised and fell short of my expectations. On the strength of her two other books, she will always be an author I gravitate towards, but if this is your first then I beg you to go back to her debut, One Moment, which saved me during a very dark period of my life.
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