Time of My Life

by Allison Winn Scotch

This book explores the questions: What if I had stayed with the one who got away? and What if I could go back? Jillian wakes up one morning to find herself seven years in the past, lying next to the boyfriend she had before she met her husband. As she navigates through her life seven years ago, Jillian makes different decisions and adjusts to the consequences of those decisions. The biggest decisions of her life were made during this time period and every choice she makes now changes the way her life will end up.

This book was very interesting. Who hasn't looked back and thought "What if I hadn't done that? What if I had done that? What would my life be if I had stayed with that one?" What would you do if you had the chance to go back and do it all again? Jillian finds that life is challenging no matter what choices you make. I forced myself not to read the end (as I often do!) to find out if she ended up with Jack or Henry.

When things are hard, it's easy to think life would be better if you'd just made on different decision. But this book shows the truth: Life is hard no matter what choices you make. You wouldn't be dealing with the same issues you have now, but there would be issues nonetheless. Marriage and motherhood is a bumpy road and you always think it could be better. And maybe it could. But maybe the problem isn't the spouse or the kids: maybe it's you. Jillian found that while turning herself into the mother she had hoped to have, she failed to let Henry and Katie (and herself) see who she really was. And by going back, and trying to make things work out differently with Jack, Jillian discovers that in order for that relationship to work, she had to become someone she didn't want to be either.