A Book Review
“Opposite of Always” by Justin A. Reynolds
A determined fight to right the world no matter how many attempts it takes.
I am not a science fiction reader, and yet I continue to find myself gravitating toward books about time travel. That being said, I had no idea that was the focus of this book until I started reading.
This young adult novel is separated into five(ish) sections. The first three are the longest, each taking up a good thirty percent of the book. But the entire novel takes place over four months — the same four months, on loop, to be exact. In fact, this novel is basically the movie Groundhog Day, which I found entertaining, considering the movie is brought up at least once throughout the text.
Unlike other time traveling books that I have read, our narrator, Jack King, has no control over his time traveling abilities. In fact, until the events of the book transpire, he has never time traveled before, doesn’t know why he can now, and only ever returns to the same exact moment: the moment he meets Kate.
Jack makes it his mission to try to save Kate. She’s sick, and he refuses to believe in a world without her — especially since he keeps getting transported back to the moment they met each and every time she dies.
