In how many universes would I hate this book? All of them. 1. There appears to be no real scientific basis for anything in this book other than the general idea of the multiverse theory. In no way is this grounded in reality, which would be fine if it wasn’t pretending to be. 2. The author needs a better editor. This man must have put hundreds of thousands miles on his thesaurus. 3. Jonas is the most selfish protagonist I have ever read (and he ignored it when other characters pointed that out!!...

Wow. This is by far one of the best written Amazon First reads. It’s brilliant. And right up my alley of course, I live for parallel universe and time travel and other similar stories.

I had a few issues with the book, preventing a five start rating, but still.. wow.

Read. This. Book.
I started this book last night around 6pm, and finished it this afternoon. I cannot tell you how enraptured I was with the story. It ended beautifully in a way that didn’t make me ache for more, but instead gave me a thorough ending leaving me grateful for the journey I just went on with Jonas. A beautiful book. Incredibly written. And so entertaining to read!

Have mercy, I hated this novel. In fairness, I admittedly hate all time travel novels, but I keep giving them a try. I’m officially done. If there is one good thing to say about it, the author uses some nice vocabulary and has at least some theoretical knowledge of physics.That being said, UGH. To start, I hated Jonas. The book started off great; nice little speech with the Nobel Laureate, sweet scene with Amanda, and good flashback to how he arrives there. The next 315 pages were terrible.Jonas...

I liked the premise of the book and the first half, but it just got so ridiculous, that the hero could survive so many falls and broken bones and beatings and yet keep bouncing back at full strength, only to once again feel more pain than he could imagine, that I started hoping the Multiverse would win over his attempts to defy fate. Of course, I knew he would win, this being a book written in the 21st century. At a deeper level, I'm bothered that the reader is supposed to consider him a hero, w...

Stories about time travel and parallel worlds are having their moment right now. I confess I love the unlimited possibilities these concepts offer. I dove into the Apple TV series Dark Matter but found it raised more questions than it answered and in some ways it was downright silly.In Any Lifetime addressed the same concepts but presented them in a more logical and entertaining manner. Like the tv series, this is a story about a man trying to get back to his wife, the love of his life, after tr...

2.5. In Any Lifetime is a dual timeline story about a physicist who is trying to find the lifetime in which his wife is alive after she is tragically killed in a car accident. Jonas is jumping timelines to find Amanda when she’s alive and well. Sometimes the universe works in a certain way that will carry out the same fate no matter which timeline you’re in. We get glimpses of the past when Amanda was alive and follow Jonas through his journey to find her. This book started off with numerous exa...

Finished reading: July 6th 2024 "Jonas learned that sometimes the hardest thing to do in life was just to live." *** A copy of this book was kindly provided to me by Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing in exchange for an honest review. Thank you! ***REVIEWWARNING: it's another unpopular opinion review!!I honestly wasn't expecting this to happen. It was cover love at first sight, and I was immediately intrigued by the premise of In A Lifetime with the time travel element as well. I've bee...

Jonas Cullen is a scientist by passion and a bit of a shy nerd. Five years ago he met Amanda, an artist and the woman of his dreams. He knew right away that he wanted to ‘look at her for the rest of his life’. They get married and this should be their happily ever after. Especially when, three years later, Jonas wins the Nobel Prize for his Many Worlds Theory achievements, and the couple travels to Sweden to attend the ceremony. Tragedy hits when newly pregnant Amanda dies in a car accident afte...

I have mixed feelings about this novel. It was not a very enjoyable read and yet I felt compelled to keep reading to discover the ending.Jonas Cullen is a brilliant physicist who won a Nobel prize for his proof of the Many Worlds theory of the existence of parallel universes. His professional success is eclipsed by his wife’s announcement that she is pregnant despite medical opinions that said it was nearly impossible. Then tragedy strikes in the form of a car accident that takes the lives of hi...