This Time Next Year

Score: 4.25/5 Bookmarks

Steam Level: 🍆

I really enjoyed this sweet, funny, 'fated to meet' story set in the UK. Minnie and Quinn are both born on New Year's, in the same hospital, and only one minute apart. But while Quinn has seemingly gone on to enjoy every success life has to offer, Minnie's life has been a series of setbacks and extraordinary bad luck (especially on her birthday).

Despite never having met, on their thirtieth birthday they find themselves together at Quinn's birthday party. Minnie has broken her own rule of staying home and hiding from the birthday curse, and the curse most definitely finds her that night. A series of bad things happen to her (I won't spoil the surprise) but it does end in her meeting the infamous Quinn, stealer of her name, her luck, and that New Year's Day baby prize money that could have made all the difference to her life. Fate seems determined to bring them together, and their families too.

Throughout the book there are little glimpses into the past when they were in the same places at the same times but never registering it. I really loved those little touches.

Have you read this one yet? Was I the last one to pick it up?