Once And Again by Rebecca Serle

This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration.

Once and Again

Summary: The women of the Novak family were each born with a gift: they can, just once, turn back time.

Lauren has known since she was fifteen that her mother Marcella saved Lauren’s father from a deadly car accident. Dave is alive and happy, and out on the Malibu waves. But ever since, Marcella, her power spent, has lived in fear of what she won’t be able to reverse. Her own mother, Sylvia, is her polar opposite: a free-spirited iconoclast with a glamorous past she only hints at. Lauren has spent her life between these two role models—and waiting for her own catastrophe to strike.

Then one summer, Lauren’s husband takes a job in New York and she moves back to Broad Beach Road, back into her childhood home on the shores of Malibu. Lauren looks forward to surfing with her dad again and perhaps repairing an unspoken fracture in her relationship with her mother. What she doesn’t expect is for the boy next to door to return home as well: Stone, Lauren’s first love, who broke her heart nearly a decade before.

As Lauren falls into familiar patterns, with her family and, more dangerously, Stone, she finds herself thinking about all the choices, large and small, that have brought her to this moment. And wondering, finally, if one of them should be undone.

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

I have enjoyed a few of Rebecca Serle’s books in the past and when I got the Netgalley review copy for Once and Again, I was thrilled.

There are only a few authors that I enjoy the dive into magical realism with and Rebecca is one. The other is Heather Webber.

What I liked:

This cover. The colors, the scene, the font…. LOVE!

Sylvia, Lauren and Marcella’s interesting relationship. The ties that binds these women are strong and the secrets of their relationships, how they interact and love each other is remarkable and poignant.

Lauren with her husband, Leo VS Lauren with Stone (her first love). It’s funny to see how much Lauren has evolved in her time between Stone and her husband and the questions that every married woman asks herself at one time in her life: “Did I make the right choice?”

Bottom line: Very enjoyable. Would love to see made into a show or movie.

*This book was sent to Traveling With T for review consideration. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.*