Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
I was hoping this would be a romance a la “About Time” and this was just way too much science and not enough romance. The main character Laurel got on my nerves and the ending was just eye roll inducing, probably because Gagnon didn’t spend enough time developing the two love interests, Ollie and Drew.
“What If It’s You?” follows Laurel. Laurel feels scared and angry after she finds an engagement ring in her long-time boyfriend Ollie’s sock drawer. She feels like he does not understand her. When she goes to work at a tech company, her work friend, Drew, lets her in on a new program he’s developed. FYI, I am not trying to explain it. I lost brain cells trying to follow the science. Just think two different worlds and move on. Laurel acts the program a question and it ends up splitting her into a world where she is still with Ollie, but to another, where she chose Drew. The book follows Laurel as she tries to figure out which world she wants.
Bah. Bah I say. I hate it when a promising read is just boring. I started this one a few days ago and I was bored beyond belief and the science parts just made this hard to wade through.
As I said, Laurel as a character was not that great. She’s awful to Ollie, and then horrified when she realizes she is with Drew. She really doesn’t know what she wants and I was hoping for a different ending for her honestly.
Nothing to say about the love interests, one is an artist (musician) and one is a tech guy.
There is another character that pops up in this, but she could have been cut. Most of the book just felt very very long and I wanted things to wrap up much quicker than they did.
Time travel or different world romance books are always going to be a hit or miss with me, maybe because when the author tries to over explain things, the romance gets lost.