I really love books with past and present timelines. It’s no surprise I enjoyed this book. I found it to be well written and also heart warming. The characters were likeable and the plot was interesting.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Three and a half stars.

Millie has everything, a job she loves, a great BFF, a fabulous apartment. Unfortunately, she's in love with her very married work colleague, Stephen who she met at college and she often wonders what would have happened if she had chosen to join the astrological society at college with him instead of the a capella group. In fact, she and Stephen used to discuss the possibility of endless alternate realities.

Going to her best friend Bonnie's family home for the long weekend, Millie goes in through the basement door and finds herself in an alternate reality, one in which Bonnie no longer owns the house and Millie is married to a guy she briefly dated in college. Once Millie gets her head around the fact that she has somehow entered a parallel universe through the basement door in Bonnie's house she realises it could be possible to find a universe in which she and Stephen dated and got married. In each parallel universe Millie sees her life through fresh eyes and tries to help her other self, to escape addiction, or an abusive marriage, etc. Always, she checks to see if she and Bonnie are still friends, because Bonnie, her brother Ben, and their parents (Until their tragic deaths) are the closest thing to real family Millie has ever known.

This is told partly through flashbacks to key events in Millie's life, starting with when she first met Bonnie, and partly through each of Millie's alternate lives, although the blurb makes it sound like she steps straight into a world where she and Stephen are together. I liked all of this, because I'm a sucker for things like Sliders and Stargate and Quantum Leap. However, and trying not to be spoilery, it was immediately obvious to me who Millie would end up with and therefore some of the surprise was lost, it needed to be more subtle. So, at first I was going to give this three stars because of the lack of suspense about Millie's MMC but I really liked the rest of the plot and would otherwise have given it four stars, so we end up at three and a half stars.

So, if you ever wondered what would have happened if you took that job, caught that bus, accepted that invite, you'' love this.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

This book had it all heartbreak, friendship and true love. I enjoyed reading this book and I loved the main character. It was a wonderful story of what true love is.

Thank you net galley and publisher for this ARC. I enjoyed this plot and all the what if scenarios. I found it a bit predictable but I still enjoyed the story.

Firstly thank you to netgalley for giving me an early copy of the book to read, very much appreciated. I usually love the dual timeline vibe in a book, although personally found that some chapters could have done with more depth and others were too much. I found it hard to follow at points as it felt quite jumpy. I found the FMC unrelatable and felt like I didn’t know much about her personality and this could of been explored more so struggled to connect with the book hence my rating, however I found myself reading this book in one afternoon in one sitting. I did enjoy it in parts and found it a decent read but couldn’t rate it higher than 3 stars.

I literally couldn’t put this down omg!! I am absolutely OBSESSED and genuinely can’t stop thinking about this omg what a faveeee

Millie spends the Juneteenth holiday weekend in and out of multiple universes not unlike Midnight Library.

She finds herself with men from a wide array of races, a variety of financial conditions and a few different locales.

While I did enjoy the story, sex and a happily ever after does not make a book a romance and I found many of the characters stereotypical.

i don't like magical books and this was just okay for me. i definitely think that emma straub did it better with "this time tomorrow" with jumping lives and timelines. the multiverse of this world could definitely used some editing and world building.

This was an interesting read although I did find the jumping back and forwards between the past and present took a little too much following it felt a bit disjointed. However, it was an interesting read that kept my interest all the way through.

I have read the 2 previous books by this author and while they are completely stand alone novels they all have parallel universes as the main thread of the story. Where this one differs is that Millie seems to have a portal and while I could more or less buy into the idea that there is a parallel universe where i live a different life I couldn't in all honesty believe that what happened to Millie is more than fantasy and that spoiled it a little for me.

I also found the characters a bit flakey we didnt really get to know any of them it was more about the story than the characters.

However, I enjoyed the book enough to keep reading to find out what happens at the end although it was pretty obvious all the way through but it was nice to have a happy ending.

Thank you to Joffe Books and Netgalley for the advance digital copy.

This book was great. The characters were enjoyable. The plot holds your attention. I would read another book by this author.

We all have those….what if moments. Meet Millie and welcome to her journey of what ifs and how her life became what it did! I enjoyed the book but it didn’t have me coming back for more for me to give it 5 stars. For sure not one to pass on though.

The premises of this book were really intriguing. While going into her friends' house, Millie finds herself in an alternate reality. She gets to live a few days in the multiverse of other Millie's lives, to see what would have happened if she had made a different choice.
She has to reset many alternate realities before she finds one that could suit her. She finally finds herself married to the co-worker she's been pining for for a couple of years now. But not everything is as good as it seems.

The idea of a character exploring her own self in the mnultiverse is really intriguing. I have also enjoyed the dual timelines, seeing Millie's past and why she took specific decisions. What left me a bit disconcerned is the fact that there could have been several realities that we could have done without, others could have been explored a bit more.

I get that Millie had to realise for herself a thing or two about the men in her life before going back to her own reality, that was obvious, but the epilogue could have been less rushed. I would have loved less multiverse resets and more of Millie going back to her own reality with newfound resolutions and exploring her feelings about the man she really loved.

She basically realised she was in love with someone she had known all her life, then the moment she saw him, she blurted out she loved him and that was the end.
Good premises but not the best execution.

Still, thank you NetGalley and Joffe Books to let me read this book for an honest review

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I think this book was very interesting and there’s definitely an audience for it however, I’m not necessarily sure that I am the target audience. It’s an adult romance and the main character goes from universe universe or like Multiverse Multiverse and it gets kind of confusing at some parts and each world she’s with a different lover or in a different career or married to somebody else. I just find it a little unrealistic and confusing and at the end, she just discovers that she’s loved this guy that she was never with in any of the universe after she supposedly dies in one of the universe and she realizes oh wait I actually do like this guy. I think that it’s crazy that somebody would have to literally die for her to realize oh wait I actually kind of like that guy and I think overall it’s very drastic and dramatic. I also don’t really connect with each like universe having different people dying. It’s just kinda confusing because if there really was like a butterfly effect or something like that that was mentioned I don’t really think it would happen like that it just seems very unrealistic.
Then again traveling between multi-verses is unrealistic it just seems like it could’ve been done better and better explained.
The main character is also really un relatable because almost every single guy that she gets with which is a lot is not good for her or not a good person in general like one of her husbands was a married man who was a professor of hers one of her guys was like her best friend‘s brother and that fucked up the whole dynamic that they had (that we don’t even get to see) one of them was a devout Christian conservative, who had some really problematic takes and got mad at her for having birth control there was another time she was with one guy who was her friend, and then there was another guy who she had literally spent like 30 seconds talking to in her original verse it just seemed like it made no sense and it was really hard to keep up with all of her lovers.

Firstly I would like to thank C.J. Connolly , Joffe Books and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of ' The Love of Her Lives' to read and review.

Due for publication in June , the novel follows the story of Millie who is always attracted to the wrong men - the ones she cant have and the ones she shouldn't. She always daydreams about a world where she had made different choices and her already great life could have been more fulfilled. She lives with an all consuming love for her male friend Stephen and whilst it seems that this is reciprocated they both know that nothing can happen beyond their friendship. He is settled and married with a family of his own and they both seem haunted by the ' what ifs ' . Millie always wonders how a life with him as her partner would have been if only they had made choices that lead them both down a different path. She knew Stephen before he met his wife and things could have been so much different if she started a relationship with him then rather than wasting time with the wrong men in relationships that had no future. Everyday that Millie sees the wedding ring on his finger her heart breaks a little more and she would give anything to see if the grass would have been greener if she had been a little braver back then.

Out of the blue Millie's life is forever changed when she walks into the house of friends that she has known for years to find that the family she grew up with and became apart of don't live there anymore and apparently never did. The portal that she has stumbled through allows her to discover how diverse life could have been had the smallest change taken place. Stepping into the shoes of alternate versions of herself allows her to try to make their lives better before she transports into the next constantly seeking the life she has always wanted for herself.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and devoured it within a few days always looking for the opportunity to read just a bit more . Millie was engaging and I adored the fact that the book didn't follow the usual recurrent theme of novels within this genre of the main character being involved in an accident that resulted in a brain injury or awakening from a sleep or coma . The plot was realistic - well as realistic as a story involving multi universes can be. This is a story about true friendship and meaningful relationships and I highly recommend it to those looking for an easy and contemporary read that still gives you all the ' feels'

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This was a wild ride, literally! It follows different timelines based on the characters choices, and was SO interesting!

This book is a pretty wild ride - it toys with the idea of what would happen if one chose a different path to the one they are on now. It's heart-warming, well-written and personally, I think it would work well as a movie or tv series.

The characters have their flaws but they are very relatable.

I received an ARC of this book. All opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Absolutely loved this book about "what if" . I’ve always been a person who wonders about decisions and parallel universes which made me so fascinated about this book.

This story alternates between the past and present, exploring different decisions she made in each timeline. Each alternate universe examines how these choices impact her life, running almost parallel to one another.

This was such a fun read and will definitely recommend further. Thank you so much for this amazing ARC!

Who and where would you be if you had made different choices in your life? This book dives deep into that question, exploring the parallel lives of Millie. It's a unique, relatable book that makes you look at yourself and the choices you've made.

This book is 13 Going On 30 meets The Butterfly Effect.

At first, I was a little worried I was going to have a hard time keeping up with this, as Millie was hopping around parallel universes left and right. However, I quickly became invested in her life and journey wondering if she was ever going to get the best possible outcome, or would she wind up stuck in a universe worse than her original? I was rooting for her the whole time, not only was she witty and relatable but her best friend Bonnie was hilarious and their friendship may have been the best relationship to come from this novel.

The last half of the book I was really tearing through to see if she’d wind up in what I determined the “best” outcome to be and it really makes you realize that everything does happen for a reason. If you like Colleen Hoover or Emily Henry this book is right up your alley.

What a wild ride, really. I've always wondered too about parallel universes where I've made different choices, and it's given different outcomes. This book explored this big time, and more than just 1 or 2 lives. It went deep.

This story is told alternating between the past and present. Each alternate universe explores a different decision in her past, which runs almost parallel in order to which choices affect her life in that current world.

It was extremely interesting and definitely pulled me in. I thought it sounded interesting and I was not disappointed at all. Thank you to the author and netgalley for a copy!! I really enjoyed it!