She Wouldn't Change a Thing

by Sarah Adlakha

Book Overview

Sliding Doors meets Life After Life in Sarah Adlakha's story about a wife and mother who is given the chance to start over at the risk of losing everything she loves.

A second chance is the last thing she wants.

When thirty-nine year old Maria Forssmann wakes up in her seventeen-year-old body, she doesn't know how she got there. All she does know is she has to get back: to her home in Bienville, Mississippi,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250774551
• ISBN13: 9781250774552
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

What would you do if you could go back and change one decision that changed everything..

Read this in one day while laying on the beach, could not put it down. Lots of twists and turns and oh my gosh moments.. Towards the end, it did leave some open questions that are left unanswered. I laughed, cussed and cried with this read. Overall, a very intriguing book that grabbed me in the first chapter and definitely makes you question how you would handle the circumstances and choices Maria is faced with.

Mind-bending, thought-provoking and emotional

Maria, a busy psychiatrist, wife and mom of two girls, with a baby on the way, is overwhelmed and exhausted. She's nearing her due date and struggling to balance her family and her career. A patient, Sylvia, who she has never seen before claims that she has been sent back from the future with the purpose of saving Maria's life. Sylvia gives Maria a cryptic warning and Maria thinks she must be delusional. Sylvia subsequently commits suicide. Maria does not heed Sylvia's warning leading to a chain of events causing her to wake up in her teenage body in her childhood home over 20 years earlier. Maria is confused and cannot convince anyone that she is a mother who desperately needs to get back to her husband and children. She is diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric institution. She finds others like herself and discovers the reason she has been sent back. She is faced with the choice of saving a young girl's life and losing the life and people she has left behind in the future, or returning to her husband and children, but forever living with the guilt of failing to prevent the death of a child. She Wouldn't Change a Thing portrays a unique perspective of time travel with a thought-provoking moral dilemma. It is well-written, suspenseful and mind-bending. The characters feel real and relatable and the events and circumstances of their interwoven lives keep the pages turning. The ending was satisfying and emotional and I wish there could have been more of the book dedicated to it. Likewise, there were some unanswered questions for which it would have been worth expanding the book. #BookishFirst

Made me think

This is certainly a book that makes you think. Maria is given the opportunity, through a tragedy, to go back in time and either prevent a death, or let time continue as it had before and go back to her husband and two little girls but have the knowledge that she could have done something to change that death, though it would cost her her family. That is a really tough choice no matter what your age is. I am not sure I could do that and so I am glad that this is not an option for us, at least not yet. The going back in time and the the whole detached souls thing made for an interesting story, especially with the twists and changes as the book goes between past and present and how one person's choices totally change the future. I did get a little confused at the end when past and present and future collided and unexpected things happened but it was still good and satisfying and not bad at all for a debut novel.