Genre: YA Science Fiction Romance
Many-Worlds Series, Book 1
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Description (taken from Anna Jarzab's website):
Everything repeats.
You. Your best friend. Every person you know.
Many worlds. Many lives–infinite possibilities.
Welcome to the multiverse.
Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. When she was young, she loved her grandfather’s stories of parallel worlds inhabited by girls who looked like her but led totally different lives. Sasha never believed such worlds were real–until now, when she finds herself thrust into one against her will.
To prevent imminent war, Sasha must slip into the life of an alternate version of herself, a princess who has vanished on the eve of her arranged marriage. If Sasha succeeds in fooling everyone, she will be returned home; if she fails, she’ll be trapped in another girl’s life forever. As time runs out, Sasha finds herself torn between two worlds, two lives, and two young men vying for her love–one who knows her secret, and one who thinks she’s someone she’s not.
Imagine there being a lot of you's or look-alikes living very different lives in different universes. Now imagine one of those you's being a princess in another universe. And while she's disappeared and the military works on finding her, they kidnap you to take her place for a bit. That's pretty much what happens in a nutshell to Sasha.
Sasha is the daughter of physicists. So, she's grown up with bedtime stories involving physics and alternate realities. Little does she know they're more than just bedtime stories. A simple night at prom with Grant turns into a week with Thomas. And while Thomas is doing right by his country by using Sasha as a Princess-Julianna-double, he doesn't realize whose opinion's going to matter more by the end of the week: the General's or Sasha's. As Sasha tries to navigate Julianna's life, she gets tossed and turned in so many directions that she doesn't know who to trust.
This was a good book with an original plot. Really, my only complaint was the length of the novel. I felt like it flowed well, I was captivated by the story; it was just long. I liked following Sasha's double life and meeting Callum. But there wasn't an absolutely love, cannot-put-down feeling while reading this one. However I did scratch my brow at a couple of spots and think 'huh, that's weird' or 'cool.'
Do I plan on reading the second one? Why yes, yes I do. While the characters didn't form complete bonds with me, the multiple worlds aspect did. And I do want to know what happens with these worlds.
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