Meet Me In Another Life by Catriona Silvey
Published by William Morrow on April 2021Genres: Adult Fiction, Romance
Pages: 320
Format: eBook
Source: Publisher
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Two people. Infinite lifetimes. One impossible choice.
Thora and Santi are strangers in a foreign city when a chance encounter intertwines their fates. At once, they recognize in each other a kindred spirit—someone who shares their insatiable curiosity, who is longing for more in life than the cards they’ve been dealt. Only days later, though, a tragic accident cuts their story short.
But this is only one of the many connections they share. Like satellites trapped in orbit around each other, Thora and Santi are destined to meet again: as a teacher and prodigy student; a caretaker and dying patient; a cynic and a believer. In numerous lives they become friends, colleagues, lovers, and enemies. But as blurred memories and strange patterns compound, Thora and Santi come to a shocking revelation—they must discover the truth of their mysterious attachment before their many lives come to one, final end.
By turns joyful, devastating, and quietly profound, Meet Me in Another Life is a spectacularly compelling page-turner filled with astonishing twists that affirms the power of love to connect us beyond time and space.
I don’t know how to accurate describe reading this book. It was so many things rolled into one.
Thora and Santi can’t seem to get away from each other. They’re spouses, or friends, siblings or stangers. They’re together and then they’re not. They find their way back again, only to be too old/too young. To barely miss each other, or find each other too early.
Thora and Santi meet again and again, life after life, always changing relationships. The outer characters rotate aroudn them, sometimes the same, sometimes different. But Thora and Santi are always the same.
Why?
I don’t want to give anything away so this will be a very vague review.
Silvey has done a superb job at creating and re-creating these two characters again and again, with their own cores in tact as they navigate through life and love and loss over and over again. It’s like watching different films but with the same actors cast each time in different roles. I love how they interact, their meetings and relationships. I love what they learn and what they fight about. Taking a step back, it’s a lovely case study of two souls who have the rare opportunity to grow together and apart again and again.
The second part of the novel becomes something else entirely and that is fine by me. It blends perfectly with what we already know about these two characters, giving way to an urgency that really propels the book forward to the last page.
I took my time reading this one. It’s not to be missed.
Kimberly majored in Songwriting and currently works full time in the music industry. When she's not listening to music, knitting or writing, you can find her outside reading her favorite genres: Young Adult, Adult Fiction, Mystery, and Romance.
