Review: Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick & Suzanne Young

Title: Just Like Fate
Author: Cat Patrick & Suzanne Young
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release date: August 27th 2013
Source: Edelweiss
Format: egalley

Rating: 4/5

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Caroline is at a crossroads. Her grandmother is sick, maybe dying. Like the rest of her family, Caroline's been at Gram's bedside since her stroke. With the pressure building, all Caroline wants to do is escape--both her family and the reality of Gram's failing health. So when Caroline's best friend offers to take her to a party one fateful Friday night, she must choose: stay by Gram's side, or go to the party and live her life.

The consequence of this one decision will split Caroline's fate into two separate paths--and she's about to live them both.

Friendships are tested and family drama hits an all-new high as Caroline attempts to rebuild old relationships, and even make a few new ones. If she stays, her longtime crush, Joel, might finally notice her, but if she goes, Chris, the charming college boy, might prove to be everything she's ever wanted.

Though there are two distinct ways for her fate to unfold, there is only one happy ending...

I cannot say that this story is original, because this year I read Pivot Point a book with the same idea, that at some point in life you get to a crossroads and depending on your choice you can have two different futures, plus years ago I saw the movie Sliding Doors with almost the same idea. But still I really loved this book, it´s very well written and it has lovable characters, especially one of the male characters.

In Just Like Fate, Caroline is at a crossroads, her grandmother is very sick and dying, but being in the hospital is unbearable, because she keeps fighting with her older sister, so Simone her best friend invited her to a party for a bit so she can cleared her mind and relax a bit. So Caroline must decide whether to stay with her grandmother that could die at any time or go to a party with her best friend, just for a few hours. And hence leads to two possible futures in which we see what would happen if Caroline stays and what if she leaves, with alternating chapters between stay and go, we can see how life-changing is her decision.

Caroline she will find herself, grow as a person and grow closer to her dysfunctional family, there is also romance and in the two possible futures there is a guy who is the romantic interest, but what I like most, is that as in either stay and go, we got to see both guys and although she doesn´t interact in the same way with them, I liked the fact that it was part of fate that she´ll meet some guy and several times is mention that certain things are meant to happen, either the way we choose (especially this is what I like most of the story), I really liked the stories are about fate.

I really loved this kind of story, I really enjoy this book, the protagonist is imperfect and has to live with her good or bad decisions. Just Like Fate is light and touching contemporary read, I read it in one day (which is fast for me), I just needed to know what would happen to the protagonist.

I received an eARC of this book from the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange of an honest review.

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WOW (78): Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick & Suzanne Young

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The book I´m waiting this week is

Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick & Suzanne Young

Release date: August 27th 2013

Caroline is at a crossroads. Her grandmother is sick, maybe dying. Like the rest of her family, Caroline's been at Gram's bedside since her stroke. With the pressure building, all Caroline wants to do is escape--both her family and the reality of Gram's failing health. So when Caroline's best friend offers to take her to a party one fateful Friday night, she must choose: stay by Gram's side, or go to the party and live her life.

The consequence of this one decision will split Caroline's fate into two separate paths--and she's about to live them both.

Friendships are tested and family drama hits an all-new high as Caroline attempts to rebuild old relationships, and even make a few new ones. If she stays, her longtime crush, Joel, might finally notice her, but if she goes, Chris, the charming college boy, might prove to be everything she's ever wanted.

Though there are two distinct ways for her fate to unfold, there is only one happy ending...

Why I'm Waiting?

Even though the synopsis is kind of weird, I can´t wait to read it because this book sounds like the movie Sliding doors even the cover looks like cover of the DVD.

What book are you waiting this week?

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Forgotten by Cat Patrick

Title: Forgotten
Author: Cat Patrick
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release date: June 7, 2011
Series: No
Rating: 4/5

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Each night at precisely 4:33 am, while sixteen-year-old London Lane is asleep, her memory of that day is erased. In the morning, all she can "remember" are events from her future. London is used to relying on reminder notes and a trusted friend to get through the day, but things get complicated when a new boy at school enters the picture. Luke Henry is not someone you'd easily forget, yet try as she might, London can't find him in her memories of things to come.

When London starts experiencing disturbing flashbacks, or flash-forwards, as the case may be, she realizes it's time to learn about the past she keeps forgetting-before it destroys her future.

London Lane is a 16 year old girl that every night at 4:33 am, her memory is erased or reset and cannot remember anything from the past. She depends on notes that she writes every night. She cannot remember the past but can remember the future. Her secret is only known by her mom and her best friend Jamie, both help her during the day, London has a sort of normal life, she goes to school, attend parties.

Luke is the super-hot new guy in school who is interested in London, but as London cannot see him in her future, she meets him for the first time every day, which can be problematic.

London suddenly begins to have memories of a funeral in which she can only recognize her mom, so she decides to find out more about her condition, her past and to see if there is any way to change her future.

The book is written from London the point of view, which is weird because she does not remember the day before at all and we do. I was confused in the beginning of the book (first 50-60 pages) because I knew that her memory is erased every day (like the movies 50 First Dates and memento), but I did not knew that her memories were from the future which was confusing at first. For example, she knows her mom and Jaime, not from the past but because they are in her future (¿?) yeah, strange. My favorite character is Luke he´s super understanding, thoughtful, has good feelings, in short the perfect guy, just what London needs, but how can she date a guy that she can´t remember and without him knowing her secret. Yes, a complicated relationship.

I really enjoy Forgotten.

Thanks to Latin Tour Books for the book tour.

Quote:

“The boy in the closet is your boyfriend. He loves you and will tell you all about last night.”

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