I am a sucker for a New Year's Eve story and this did not disappoint.

Minnie Cooper and Quinn Hamilton were destined to meet after they were born just minutes apart at the same hospital in the first few minutes of New Year's Day. Minnie's life takes a few turns and by the time she meets Quinn again she's a hardworking realist with no time for Quinn's smug demeanor. Quinn hasn't had the easiest life but puts up a front to come off as a non-committal bro. Jumping back and forth between present day and various New Year's Eves of the past, This Time Next Year brings you missed connections and meet cutes that will have you rooting for these two to just end up together already.

Just like watching a rom-com, I loved how the author weaved in those missed connections of earlier times. Minnie's attitude got a little annoying at times but you were still rooting for her. Loved her quirky best friend and pie shop employees. Also the references to Great British Baking Show had me loling. Anything that mentioned a Paul Hollywood handshake is fun in my book!

Absolutely adorable! Perfect for fans of One Day in December or In Five Years. This was a nice escape from current events; it's easy to get lost in the the lifelong saga of Quinn and Minnie. Born a minute apart, Quinn beats Minnie in a contest to be the "First Baby Born in the 90s" and inadvertently steals Minnie's intended name (poor girl is stuck with the horrible moniker Minnie Cooper!). Quinn's life seems bathed in good fortune, Minnie has had more than her share bad luck. They meet on their 30th birthdays and spend the year coming in and out of each other's life.

It's not fluff though, I found myself pondering fate, life, timing, and luck. This is a modern day fairy tale and I look forward to reading more by Sophie Cousins.

Thank you to Net Galley for the advance copy!

What a great book. I got caught up in this story really quickly and pretty much devoured it in two days. Loved Minnie and Quinn, both characters were wonderfully complex, funny and touching throughout and they had excellent chemistry. Their story from start to finish was engaging. I loved how the author wove in the development of their present day story with their past, showing that they were always connected by the invisible thread of fate. Love twins!! Both Quinn and Minnie had to deal with some fairly difficult emotional hurdles during the story before the could be really comfortable in their own skins. I thought the author handled their respective issues very well. I laughed, I cried and I loved them both individually and together.

The supporting characters were a joy and really added to the story. Bev, Fleur and Alan were all excellent. Also big fan of Clive in his brief appearance (break-up guru!!) Laurie and Minnie’s friendship was everything you want a female friendship to be. I would highly recommend this book and look forward to reading more of SC’s work.

Loved it, loved it, loved it. I adore a good love story and this book had romance by the bucketful. I wanted to be friends with Minnie, I fell in love with Quinn and I honestly could not put the book down. Hooked from the get go and would recommend to anyone. Fab!

I adored This Time Next Year. I read the whole book with a huge smile on my face. Minnie and Quinn were born 1 minute apart on New Year's Day 1990. They meet on their 30th birthday, but flashbacks to previous New Years show that their lives have actually been entangled for years. This was the perfect mix of romance, friendship, family, wit, vulnerability, and missed chances. I loved how close Minnie and her BFF Leila are (the proposal scene was a hoot!), Minnie's relationship with her parents (I want to fix a clock for my dad!) and I especially loved the love twins, Minnie and Quinn. Great read!

This Time Next Year is about two people born minutes apart and meet on their 30th Birthday. As the story continues, we learn that they have run into each other several times throughout their lives without know it. They start out as enemies, but that eventually changes. I enjoyed this book. It was entertaining that this book was set in 2020, yet Coronavirus related shut-downs were not a part of the story. I would recommend to friends.

This Time Next Year is a fun novel about two individuals born on New Year's Eve. One was born into a family who won the New Year's Eve prize and the other felt the New Year cursed her every single year. But when Quinn and Minnie coincidentally meet, Minne's luck may change while Quinn may be able to share his burden and open his heart to love.

Thank you, NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book.

Like the curate’s egg good in part. Nice descriptive prose and well drawn out characters but frankly I found the plot a little trite.

Quinn and Minnie were born a minute apart in the same London hospital. This is the story of what happens when they meet up as adults and the rest of the story is obvious and predictable

This book follows Quinn and Minnie, who meet on New Year's Day in London, which also happens to be both their birthdays. It turns out while he's always been lucky, she's been unlucky which her family attributes to having her lucky name choice (Quinn) stolen by a baby boy born on the same day. The story is told through flashbacks on different New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, and somehow they always ended up at the same place at the same time; as well as a present-day timeline that chronicles how things go since they officially met in 2019. It's such an engaging and fun story, I just want to know what'll happen next. It's an easy romance read to get wrapped up in, and I couldn't put it down and ended up devouring it in one sitting. It even reads quickly for 400+ pages. In the book, it's all about how fate kept entangling their lives from the beginning, so love seems inevitable. Ok, it's pretty darn cute from beginning to end. It's just fun, sweet, and cute. Then, the ending is giving me all sorts of sweeping *zings* and feels that I could actually feel fluttering in my belly, awww.

"This Time Next Year" follows Quinn and Minnie, who were born a minute apart on New Year's, and reunite 30 years later on the same day! Minnie and Quinn are both such likable characters that you find yourself relating to both of them as they navigate their way through life and figuring out what they want. I definitely recommend this book for anyone who likes romance novels! This is one you don't want to miss. Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

This book just wasn't for me.
This is the story of two people, Minnie and Quinn, who were born on the same day at the same hospital, and their paths cross on their 30th birthday. I thought this was going to be a romance novel, but it wasn't. I don't even know how to categorize this, because I just didn't care for any of it.
Third person narration in contemporary books to me is just pointless, and I couldn't connect with any of the characters. In fact, I hated both of them, cause they just made decisions that I couldn't understand/relate..
The first 25% of this book was so interesting, and I would give it 4 stars if it stayed on track, but to me it just derailed and I was bored.
I also gotta say that, as a Brazilian, I was kind of mad that the author didn't research right to include a reference of my country in the book. She said "El Salvador" as if it's somewhere in my country, but El Salvador IS ACTUALLY A COUNTRY. We have "Salvador", a city in Bahia, not El Salvador.

Minnie Cooper (with a name like that, you know she is going to be a great character!!) meets Quinn at a New Year’s Eve party. They discover they were both born on the same day and at the same hospital. Minnie has always felt jinxed on New Year’s Eve and blames it on the fact that when she was born, Quinn’s mother stole the name that was meant for her, when the 2 expectant mothers bonded together at the hospital.

This wonderful story is told over several timelines, throughout both Quinn and Minnie’s livesyou see that they seem to gravitate towards each other, even though they come from very different backgrounds.

I was totally swept along with this story, loving all the characters. This is so much more than a love story, it’s about friendship and family bonds.

Thank you to Netgalley for my copy in exchange for a review.

Pleasant to read, and was well written. Enjoyable, but not as good as past books i've read by this author.

I loved the originality of this. It was a fun and quick read and I recommend it if you’re looking for a HEA!

This was a super cute, lighthearted read with some nice messages. The main characters were likeable, the secondary characters more so and the overall vibe was like settling down in a warm bath with a lovely cup of hot chocolate.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the review copy.

The true strength of This Time Next Year are the characters. Quinn and Minnie are flawed, relatable and grounded. Add to them a colourful cast of secondary characters and you've got yourself a great read.
This book felt like a warm hug, it captivated me and I was unable to put it down. You follow Quinn and Minnie's lives over the course of a year; there is laughter, let downs and great triumphs. This was an absolute pleasure to read and I can't wait to see more from Sophie Cousens.

A man and woman who were born at the same hospital on New Year’s Day meet on their thirtieth birthday and discover the many times their paths almost crossed before.

I absolutely loved this book ! It was funny, had little unexpected moments and was so different to the chick lit books i've read before. I loved how the characters grew, their back stories and the little extras that made this book so enjoyable. Minnie made me laugh out loud with her endless bad luck.

I did find it slightly hard to get into in the first chapter and wondered what was going on but after chapter two it really ramped up and I didn't put it down until I finished it.

A really good read for any lover of romantic, quirky and funny quick reads. I would recommend for those enjoy the writing of Lindsey Kelk.

3.5 stars for me

This was a sweet read and while I enjoyed Minnie and Quinn and their complicated path to their HEA I didn’t feel connected to their story. I loved the blurb and the story followed it but I just wanted more. I liked the banter and the backstory with the mums was a great twist. I will definitely give this author another try.

This Time Next Year is an extremely cute read. It's a delightfully original plot which feeds off the relatable and well-written characters. A very enjoyable read.

This is a cute romance between Quinn and Minnie who share the same birthday. They both have issues with their lives which they resolve leaving them free to fall in love with one another. The wild swimming dates were a high point in the book for me. Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me review this book.