Hindsight

by Kelly Christy

Reese Anderson is floundering. She’s created quite the catalog of failures in her forty years. She’s been a waitress for more than twenty years, her eighteen-year-old daughter is spiraling down a drug-induced black hole, and her marriage of two decades has not only turned cold but has recently curdled. Her husband has admitted to fooling around with someone else.

After drunkenly climbing on top of her roof to watch a lunar eclipse, Reese makes a wish she could go back in time to be with Kyler, the boy who got away decades ago, and to the life she was meant to live. Plus, she wouldn’t mind a reset on this body of hers as well.

Reese wakes up the next morning with longer hair and a tighter, younger body, and is convinced she’s dreamt herself back into her twenties. But when days continue to pass as she’s trying to navigate an already established relationship with Kyler while she’s technically still married, she worries that if she doesn’t recreate the night with her future husband exactly, her daughter will turn into a figment of her imagination.

​Struggling with the impossible ethical conundrum of choosing a life with Kyler over her unborn daughter, Reese has to find a way to use the universe’s second chance wisely to keep what she wants (a fun, fresh love), with what she can’t give up (her daughter).

Genres: Fiction

305 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 21, 2022

About the author

Kelly Christy is a writer, crafter, artist, mother of three teenage boys, wife, teacher, volunteer, and avid reader. She doesn't get as much writing done as she'd like.

She likes to write about strong, realistic, women who learn from their mistakes and the people who love them.

Reviews

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I read a book and it helps me to learn and to understand more about myself and my life, then that book is a true treasure.

[Aubrey Price · Rating 5 out of 5]

So great and unexpected

A wonderful story that touches on so many aspects of life. The story keeps you engaged all the way through the end. It made me laugh and cry.

[Becky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don't we all love a story that explores what our lives might look like if we'd made a different decision in the past? I feel like in most of them, the female protagonist realizes something she needs to change in her real life, usually not appreciating her husband/kids/job/etc. Although in this book the FMC does learn things about how she looked at her life, it ended differently than I was expecting and in a good way.

A good reminder of staying true to yourself, exploring who you become and change into as you grow older and that just because life doesn't seem to be a happily ever after, it doesn't mean that a change can't also be a happily ever after.

[Courtney Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was such a delight! I was sad it ended!

This concept is something I toy with often. So many regrets and bad decisions that I wish I could take back. Get a do-over. Go back to being 16 with the knowledge I have now.

But I also know that you don't get that. You just keep moving forward, trying your best.

I definitely look forward to reading more from this author!!