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Possibility: A totally addictive and spicy page-turner that will have you hooked
- GenresRomance
448 pages, Hardcover
Published April 24, 2025
About the author
Sareeta Domingo
10 books94 followersSareeta Domingo is the author of If I Don't Have You [Jacaranda Books, 2020], The Nearness of You [Piatkus/Little,Brown, 2016], and creator, editor and contributing writer of upcoming romantic fiction anthology Who's Loving You [Trapeze, 2021]. She has also written numerous erotic short stories and an erotic novella with Pavilion Books. Her books for Young Adults are published under S.A. Domingo, including Love, Secret Santa [Hachette Children's, 2019]. She has contributed to publications including gal-dem, Black Ballad, Stylist and Token Magazine, and has taken part in events for Hachette Books, Winchester Writers’ Festival, Black Girls Book Club and Bare Lit Festival among others. She lives in South East London.
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June 10, 2025
3.5 stars - I really liked this book! It was an easy, enjoyable read with a story that kept me interested throughout. I especially liked the writing style and thought the ending was wrapped up nicely. There were just a couple of things that didn’t quite land for me, mainly some character choices and how quickly the relationship developed. Overall, I enjoyed reading it.
October 29, 2025
3.25⭐️
“It’s all about me now, and going for what I want.”
We follow Anika who as her 30s start is in hospital following a health scare. This experience has her questioning her life and if she has really and truly been living to the fullest. She begins to write things in her childhood diary and soon realises whatever she writes comes true, leading her to write and literally manifest her dream life into fruition. She leans into this new life, with no hesitation, documenting her hearts true desires and possibilities. But at what cost?
Anika as a character was at times doing silly things and I kinda began to get annoyed with her self sabotage/I can do whatever I want attitude. She truly began to get obsessed with manifesting and losing sight of real life friendships and relationships.
I did enjoy the slow burn romance and her scenes with Cam 🌶️
It had me questioning do we manifest or do we trick ourselves into being confident and going for what we want after writing a plan? Can we really control our fate?
Personally for me it was slightly too long (430 pages), after 70% it fell really flat and lost momentum, it started to drag slightly.
“It’s all about me now, and going for what I want.”
We follow Anika who as her 30s start is in hospital following a health scare. This experience has her questioning her life and if she has really and truly been living to the fullest. She begins to write things in her childhood diary and soon realises whatever she writes comes true, leading her to write and literally manifest her dream life into fruition. She leans into this new life, with no hesitation, documenting her hearts true desires and possibilities. But at what cost?
Anika as a character was at times doing silly things and I kinda began to get annoyed with her self sabotage/I can do whatever I want attitude. She truly began to get obsessed with manifesting and losing sight of real life friendships and relationships.
I did enjoy the slow burn romance and her scenes with Cam 🌶️
It had me questioning do we manifest or do we trick ourselves into being confident and going for what we want after writing a plan? Can we really control our fate?
Personally for me it was slightly too long (430 pages), after 70% it fell really flat and lost momentum, it started to drag slightly.
December 1, 2025
This book made me laugh out loud, blush, yell with rage…all the feels.
Anika receives a life-changing call that propels her to upturn her life after her 30th birthday. Her career, friendships, family and love life do a complete 180 as a result, in a short space of time. She firmly believes that the manifestations and affirmations she writes in her journal are coming true, and in her effort to whip all of the above into shape, we go on a whirlwind ride of self-discovery and transformation with her.
Sareeta Domingo, the literary goddess that you were - you will be missed. Thank you for writing the healthiest, most emotionally-mature, regulated and secure Black book boyfriend. I love Cam Kwame Asiedu.
Anika receives a life-changing call that propels her to upturn her life after her 30th birthday. Her career, friendships, family and love life do a complete 180 as a result, in a short space of time. She firmly believes that the manifestations and affirmations she writes in her journal are coming true, and in her effort to whip all of the above into shape, we go on a whirlwind ride of self-discovery and transformation with her.
Sareeta Domingo, the literary goddess that you were - you will be missed. Thank you for writing the healthiest, most emotionally-mature, regulated and secure Black book boyfriend. I love Cam Kwame Asiedu.
July 17, 2025
What a trip!
I thought this was a time travel book based on the blurb...so was pleasantly surprised.
I enjoyed the possibility of Anika and Kwame/Cam circling the backdrop of that night. The tension was surreal. My reminder to go find my young adult diaries.
I thought this was a time travel book based on the blurb...so was pleasantly surprised.
I enjoyed the possibility of Anika and Kwame/Cam circling the backdrop of that night. The tension was surreal. My reminder to go find my young adult diaries.
August 28, 2026
🎶 Possibility - Sareeta Domingo
⭐ 3.5/5
Possibility is one of those books where I can recognise just how much it does well while also admitting that I didn't completely connect with it.
At the centre of the story is Anika, and I really appreciated how much space Domingo gives her to be messy. She makes mistakes, questions herself, fights against her fears and doesn't always behave in ways that make her particularly easy to root for. Her journey isn't simply about finding romantic love; it's equally about figuring out who she is when the life she thought she understood begins shifting beneath her.
Her health journey, in particular, was one of the strongest and most relatable aspects of the story for me. There are some incredibly grounded reflections on illness, body image and what happens when suddenly you can't take your own body - or your future - for granted.
Where Anika lost me slightly was in her growing reliance on manifestation and affirmations. As someone who tends to approach things from a more grounded perspective, I found some of her choices increasingly frustrating, particularly when her determination to transform her life began affecting the very real people and relationships already within it.
I think that frustration is partly intentional. Possibility seems interested in the tension between believing we can create the life we want and accepting that some things simply aren't within our control. Anika's journey is chaotic because she's desperately trying to impose order and meaning on circumstances that refuse to cooperate.
But understanding that didn't always make her easier for me to connect with.
Thankfully, I really enjoyed Cam. He's such a lovely counterpoint to Anika, and their romance develops with a believable slow burn rather than feeling like something the story simply expects us to accept. His affection for her is evident long before everything is straightforward between them, and watching his confusion and hurt as Anika struggles with everything happening around her was genuinely painful. Their chemistry felt natural, and even the spicier moments never seemed shoehorned in simply because this is technically a romance.
Music also runs beautifully through their relationship and the wider story. As such an important part of Anika's world, it gives the book an additional emotional language and was something I connected with immediately.
But I actually think the relationships beyond the romance are where this book shines brightest. Domingo creates such a warm, believable Black and West African community around Anika. I particularly loved the female friendships - complicated, occasionally messy and sometimes strained, but filled with genuine history and affection. The supporting characters feel like people with lives rather than props surrounding the protagonist, which gives the story so much heart.
And there is A LOT happening here: illness, grief, romantic love, family breakdown, friendship, body image, identity and self-discovery. It would be easy for a book carrying this many themes to feel disjointed, but Domingo manages to weave them together remarkably well. Her writing has an intimate, conversational quality that makes it feel as though Anika is simply sitting beside you and telling you about her life.
My biggest struggle was the pacing. Somewhere around the 60-70% mark, I felt the story plateau, and it began to feel longer than it needed to be. After spending so much time on such an emotionally chaotic journey, I also wanted a little more from the ending. The emotional payoff didn't quite match the amount of time I'd invested getting there.
I wanted more certainty. More concrete answers. Something that made the chaos feel fully resolved. But perhaps that's also part of the point.
You can manifest, plan, journal and desperately try to force your life into the shape you want, but ultimately life doesn't promise us certainty. Sometimes growth means learning to live with the possibilities rather than knowing exactly how everything will turn out.
I can appreciate that message while also admitting that, as a reader, I still wanted just a little more 😂
⭐ 3.5/5 - messy, thoughtful and deeply human, with a lovely slow-burn romance, beautiful female friendships and an ambitious exploration of illness, grief, love and the limits of how much control we really have over our lives.
⭐ 3.5/5
Possibility is one of those books where I can recognise just how much it does well while also admitting that I didn't completely connect with it.
At the centre of the story is Anika, and I really appreciated how much space Domingo gives her to be messy. She makes mistakes, questions herself, fights against her fears and doesn't always behave in ways that make her particularly easy to root for. Her journey isn't simply about finding romantic love; it's equally about figuring out who she is when the life she thought she understood begins shifting beneath her.
Her health journey, in particular, was one of the strongest and most relatable aspects of the story for me. There are some incredibly grounded reflections on illness, body image and what happens when suddenly you can't take your own body - or your future - for granted.
Where Anika lost me slightly was in her growing reliance on manifestation and affirmations. As someone who tends to approach things from a more grounded perspective, I found some of her choices increasingly frustrating, particularly when her determination to transform her life began affecting the very real people and relationships already within it.
I think that frustration is partly intentional. Possibility seems interested in the tension between believing we can create the life we want and accepting that some things simply aren't within our control. Anika's journey is chaotic because she's desperately trying to impose order and meaning on circumstances that refuse to cooperate.
But understanding that didn't always make her easier for me to connect with.
Thankfully, I really enjoyed Cam. He's such a lovely counterpoint to Anika, and their romance develops with a believable slow burn rather than feeling like something the story simply expects us to accept. His affection for her is evident long before everything is straightforward between them, and watching his confusion and hurt as Anika struggles with everything happening around her was genuinely painful. Their chemistry felt natural, and even the spicier moments never seemed shoehorned in simply because this is technically a romance.
Music also runs beautifully through their relationship and the wider story. As such an important part of Anika's world, it gives the book an additional emotional language and was something I connected with immediately.
But I actually think the relationships beyond the romance are where this book shines brightest. Domingo creates such a warm, believable Black and West African community around Anika. I particularly loved the female friendships - complicated, occasionally messy and sometimes strained, but filled with genuine history and affection. The supporting characters feel like people with lives rather than props surrounding the protagonist, which gives the story so much heart.
And there is A LOT happening here: illness, grief, romantic love, family breakdown, friendship, body image, identity and self-discovery. It would be easy for a book carrying this many themes to feel disjointed, but Domingo manages to weave them together remarkably well. Her writing has an intimate, conversational quality that makes it feel as though Anika is simply sitting beside you and telling you about her life.
My biggest struggle was the pacing. Somewhere around the 60-70% mark, I felt the story plateau, and it began to feel longer than it needed to be. After spending so much time on such an emotionally chaotic journey, I also wanted a little more from the ending. The emotional payoff didn't quite match the amount of time I'd invested getting there.
I wanted more certainty. More concrete answers. Something that made the chaos feel fully resolved. But perhaps that's also part of the point.
You can manifest, plan, journal and desperately try to force your life into the shape you want, but ultimately life doesn't promise us certainty. Sometimes growth means learning to live with the possibilities rather than knowing exactly how everything will turn out.
I can appreciate that message while also admitting that, as a reader, I still wanted just a little more 😂
⭐ 3.5/5 - messy, thoughtful and deeply human, with a lovely slow-burn romance, beautiful female friendships and an ambitious exploration of illness, grief, love and the limits of how much control we really have over our lives.
April 26, 2026
I started this book in September after hearing about Sareeta's death, and have been stopping and starting ever since, finally finishing the story today (and I'm so glad I did).
'Possibility' is a contemporary read about a young woman, Anika Lapo, who is experiencing a transition period in her life after a major health scare forces her to confront her mortality. Guided by her trusted journal, she reinvents herself professionally and personally, excavating the traumas and experiences she has had with friends and family, which can make for some discomforting scenes.
Overall, the supporting cast in this book is lovable and trusty, which makes for a lovely read despite the heavy subject matter of illness and death. Sareeta's writing is fluid, sparking poetry in prosaic lines that I found myself highlighting consistently because they were so pretty. The focus on a Black/West African love story was particularly endearing to me, but I think the biggest strength of this story is how complete and overarching it reads. It's a difficult feat to layer in so many themes - illness, romantic love, family breakdown, friendship friction, body image, grief etc - but Domingo achieves this well. Her death is a true loss to the literary community. If there's any takeaway I can draw from this story and her Acknowledgements is the importance of stories keeping us alive.
'Possibility' is a contemporary read about a young woman, Anika Lapo, who is experiencing a transition period in her life after a major health scare forces her to confront her mortality. Guided by her trusted journal, she reinvents herself professionally and personally, excavating the traumas and experiences she has had with friends and family, which can make for some discomforting scenes.
Overall, the supporting cast in this book is lovable and trusty, which makes for a lovely read despite the heavy subject matter of illness and death. Sareeta's writing is fluid, sparking poetry in prosaic lines that I found myself highlighting consistently because they were so pretty. The focus on a Black/West African love story was particularly endearing to me, but I think the biggest strength of this story is how complete and overarching it reads. It's a difficult feat to layer in so many themes - illness, romantic love, family breakdown, friendship friction, body image, grief etc - but Domingo achieves this well. Her death is a true loss to the literary community. If there's any takeaway I can draw from this story and her Acknowledgements is the importance of stories keeping us alive.
January 18, 2026
My expectations were of the chart for this.... my bookclub and I were reading it. The struggle was real, we failed the assignment, we couldn't finish it.
August 17, 2026
A really beautiful read from the late, great Sareeta Domingo - a wistfulness, nostalgia and warmth in her writing that will truly be missed.
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