Please note that I read this book via NetGalley. This does not affect my rating or review.
Honestly not too much to say about this. It’s typical Serle at this point. Magical realism with no explanation, a character does a major betrayal, the book eventually gets to an ending. I was more intrigued on the premise of this one (at a baby’s birth in this family, a ticket appears that allows them to go back to a point in time and change things) but it just didn’t work in the end. Maybe because so many of the characters we follow are still an enigma towards the end. I think the jumping around showing the different points of view from Lauren, Marcella, and Sylvia just didn’t work. I really wish we could have explored the before and after of using the ticket more. The twist that gets tossed in there towards the end just made zero sense to even include and I just wish it had been skipped. I will say that the highlights was the description of surfing via Lauren’s point of view. The descriptions made me feel like I was right there, but other than that, just a solid 3 star read.