I'm sorry to be late on reviewing this! I actually sinceerely loved this book and author and hope to see more from her in the future. The new cover design is awesome!

The plot of 'The Fifty-Seven Lives of Alex Wayfare' is a bit reminiscent of that of David Levithan's "Every day". With one big difference, Alex is herself all day, every day. It's the world around Alex that is disappearing and she never knows where she ends up. This has been going on since Alex was four, now she's 17. How can this be happening? What is the trigger for it to happen?

It was a bit difficult to keep track of the logic around the time travel, and I must admit I kept going mostly for the love story. A big plus for letting the character have a warm and loving familiy, sometimes in YA it seems like love is lost for all young people.

Buehrlen is a good writer, she knows how to use suspense to keep the reader turning pages. There are some things to work with here, but all in all a decent debut novel.

I requested this one back in the day as I had every intention of reading it. However, its been years and I still haven't gotten around to it and while I feel guilty at not reviewing a book I think that I need to admit to myself that I won't be reading this one anytime soon....if at all.

The Fifty-Seven Lives of Alex Wayfare had me from the get-go. It is a time travel book done in a way that was enjoyable, not the typical tripe that has been going on in the last years. Alex is geeky, nerdy, different, and a whiz with technology. It’s nicely refreshing to have a female character being a whiz with technology without her being some kind of genius mechanic in a sci-fi context. Plus Alex is instantly likable, and it’s impossible to not feel for her from the start. Since she was little, she’s had flashbacks of other lives that feel so much like hers and has become an outcast at school for her strangeness. Alex would give anything to be normal.

This is a gripping book that is dangerous to your bedtime because you don't want to put it down. Even as a YA book, it is enjoyable for adults too. There are just so many things that happen right in this book!

A beautifully written YA novel about a teenage girl with 56 past lives, and the ability to travel back in time and visit each of these lives. There's intrigue, romance, and danger, all of which combine to make a highly readable story.

Writing about reincarnation is kind of like opening up a can of worms, but I found this story to be interesting and entertaining. I like how it combines reincarnation with time travel, and that the heroine can travel to wherever she wants. There's a little bit of everything for everyone, and I think the author's writing style is lovely. Highly recommended.

A well-written and enjoyable book, I am glad I requested this title and will be more than happy to pass the title along to my fellow library purchasers.