Cassandra in Reverse: A Reese's Book Club Pick

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Then, she spends the majority of the book trying to re-establish her relationship with her boyfriend. I know in hindsight this is a question lots of autistic women (or anyone with a late diagnosis) ask themselves, but Cassandra was so stereotypical in so many ways! I enjoyed the author's writing style a lot, unfortunately the execution left something to be desired. Cassandra simply undoes all her time travel decisions and goes back to the time before she met her boyfriend, and the book stops.

Cassie learns that she can start over if things go wrong and time travel just may be the answer she was looking for to fix her life before it went off the rails. There was just too much going on, and I don't think these new plot elements/themes complimented each other.I’ve read so many (romance) books featuring autistic characters at this point, where there’s always a midway point where the character either gets diagnosed or explains to others around her that she’s autistic. This is all about her deciding not to time travel anymore because she finally accepts herself for who she is, differences and all. How does her newfound ability to reverse time impact her sense of agency and her perception of the world?

In the blink of an eye though Cassie finds herself right back to the beginning of it all and living the trauma over until she wonders if anything she does can change the outcome. And there are a lot of descriptions of seeing emotions as colors, which is also interesting as it relates to Cassie’s way of processing information; but it’s also overdone. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. I don't think it really needed the 'big announcement' - I think Smale should have given the reader more integrity and didn't need to address it like she did. She's dealing with the worst kind of day when she loses everything she cares about: her job, her place to live, her boyfriend.The only thing that threw some mystery was the woman who kept following Cassandra, but even that, though my favorite character that brought life to the end of the book, the reveal was too lackluster for all the build-up.

Although this kind of concept has been done before (a single example: Groundhog Day), the main character shines. She's stunned to discover that she has a strange ability to manipulate time, rewinding moments and re-doing them to fix what she feels like she broke. I really thought after the first chapter or so that I was really going to get irritated or Cassandra was going to get on my nerves but instead I quit trying to read it a bit at a time and read the last half in one go. Why should I care about getting answers as a reader when I don’t even care about the main protagonist?After getting dumped by her boyfriend and fired from her PR job in the same day, Cassandra Dankworth miraculously gains the ability to manipulate time from the past four months. One minute you’re twelve, standing in the middle of a play­ground while people fight over who doesn’t get you as a team­mate. Aside from the storyline about her relationship and her getting her diagnosis, there’s a lot more this book covers. Other readers who also enjoy Greek mythology, neurodivergent characters, time travel/speculative fiction, just ignore my review. I feel like the trajectory she was on was the perfect way to move forward but I also think the other path makes sense too.