The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

the title of the book caught my eye first, and then the mention of sliding doors. picked it up, read it, and i liked it but not fully.

as everyone has reviewed, it’s about a person ‘having’ two lives between dreams and somewhere along the story, we kind of have to figure out which life was the real life one because both lives seems to be going on pretty smoothly. almost perfect for a single person (kitty) and for a married woman (katharine).

and then it started to unfold some uneasiness, like the bookstore’s not earning enough and then the mother ‘realises’ she has a child with autism, but still perfect, i think, considering the husband is loyal and supportive.

i was beginning to find it a bit slow now, because i wanted to know which life is real and what caused this dual lives dreams. i began to understand when it reached to the meeting point of when her parents lived in Kitty’s life but died in a tragic plane accident in katharine’s. that could be the cause of starting to have these dreams to change realities because of the trauma of losing one’s parents. and then i guess katharine’s was the real one and the single kitty was the dream.

i guess the end game of the story is that all the what ifs leads to different life pathways but all pathways are never perfect. you win some you lose some. you can never have it all. and it’s true, isn’t it.

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