Taylor Jenkins Reid...More Books I Love!

One True Loves and Maybe in Another Life are two of my new favourite titles. They are both page-turners that will hold you captive till the last page. So go ahead, dig in.

One True Loves is your literary equivalent to the famous 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow feature film Sliding Doors. Basically, it's all about how your fate changes in light and in sink with circumastances and timing. It's the story of Emma, who marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse and moves away from home with him. They travel the world together, chasing every adventure, until one day before their first anniversary, Jesse goes missing in a helicopter mid-air to Alaska.

Emma then quits her job as a freelance travel writer and moves home to Massachusetts, trying to paste her life back together. Years later, while now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and falls in love again. She gets engaged to Sam and believes she is getting her second chance at happiness.

That is, until Jesse is found. He is alive and it turns out he's been trying all those years to get back home to her. Now Emma finds herself having a husband and a fiancé, and she has to figure out who she is and what she wants. Engulfed in that decision are all the makings of one's life: her place of work, her relationship with her parents and sister, who in essence is she really is?

Emma has to figure out if she is the adventurous Emma who married Jesse or the home-bound Emma who is about to marry Sam.

The same notion of what and who one would turn into had the choices she/ he made at a certain moment in time continue with the novel Maybe in Another Life.

It's the story of Hannah, who at 29, still has no idea who she is or what she wants out of life.

After drifting around for years between different cities and jobs, she heads back to Los Angeles for yet another fresh start. This time, with the help of her best friend from childhood, Gabby,

The two, along with Gabby's husband, celebrate Hannah's homecoming with old friends at a local bar, and just after midnight, Gabby asks if Hannah is ready to go. Moments later, Hannah's high school boyfriend, offers to give her a ride later if she wants to stay. Hannah hesitates.

Alternating between two parallel universes, radically different paths unfold for Hanna and the people around her. In alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold with different results.

In concurrent storylines, Hannah lives out the effects and results of each decision...staying with Ethan and going with Gabby. Each decision has it's ups and downs.

Both novels share the same theme of figuring out what happens when you choose one way or another. Both raise the question of how much of our destiny is premeditated and how much is left up to chance....and for that reason alone, I highly recommend you go get'em!