Time of My Life

- Alison Winn Scotch -

Too a while to get into this one, but once the story got moving I really loved it.

Jillian is married to a wonderful man, has a gorgeous baby girl and lives in a beautiful home in the suburbs, yet she feels like something is off. When she hears that the former love of her life, the one she walked away from without looking back, is getting married, she can't help wondering if she chose the wrong path.

Thanks to a massage gone awry, she gets the chance to make different choices when she wakes up seven years earlier, back at the apartment she shared with Jackson, back at her old job, and back in her old life.

Once she realizes what is happening, Jillian decides this is her chance to fix the mistakes she made in the past, and to see if a different path is the right one for her.

I loved that, in the course of averting the fights and situations that had caused her relationship with Jackson to implode the first time, Jillian actually goes through a process of examining herself and the issues in her life related to her estranged mother and, in the interests of making different choices this time around, gets to resolve some of those issues and get to know herself better.

The happy ending, while definitely satisfying, was a teeny bit confusing but overall, this was such a lovely book about self discovery and learning how to ask for what you need and identify what needs to change, that it didn't matter.