Twice
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4.8 • 10 Ratings
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- $25.99
Publisher Description
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
What if you got to do everything in your life—twice? The heart of Mitch Albom’s newest novel—charmingly narrated by Mitch himself—is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might mean losing what we’ve had all along.
When he is eight years old, Alfie Logan discovers the magical ability to get a second chance at everything. He can undo any moment and live it again. The one catch: he must accept the consequences of his second try—for better or worse.
He grows up correcting his mistakes and saving himself from adolescent embarrassments. He even takes foolishly dangerous risks, just to see what it’s like to come close to death, before tapping back to safety.
Eventually, Alfie turns his gift to his love life, studying his crushes and going back to make himself more appealing. In time, he falls deeply in love with Gianna, the woman he believes is the one. He seems to find contentment.
But as the years pass, Alfie’s eye begins to wander. Which is when he learns a lone caveat to his power: once he undoes a love, that person can never fall in love with him again. Knowing if he gives into to temptation, he will risk losing what he has with Gianna, Alfie makes a choice that changes his life forever.
The book begins many years later, after an ailing Alfie is arrested for allegedly cheating and winning millions at a casino roulette wheel. As a curious detective interrogates him, he slowly uncovers Alfie’s incredible story, and its most unlikely conclusion.
In Twice, America’s favorite storyteller, Mitch Albom, is at the top of his powers. A love story that is enchanting, probing, and clairvoyant in matters of the heart, Twice will make you think, weep, and overflow with love from beginning to end. And what better way to experience this story than through the delightful audiobook, narrated by Mitch himself.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A magical premise gives way to a taut story of choice, cost, and love in this time-bending romantic drama from Mitch Albom. At eight, Alfie Logan learns he can relive moments from the past and try for a different outcome. But when he falls for Gianna years later, he discovers that replaying an instant isn’t the same as sustaining a life. Decades on, a roulette win and a relentless investigator force Alfie to explain the looping truth. While Albom’s inviting storytelling keeps the rules of redo clear and the moral calculus knotted, the love story holds the center, showing how fear, longing, and luck twist each choice in surprising ways. The interrogation frame adds pace, and the reveals land with satisfying inevitability as the lightly speculative touches keep the stakes personal rather than abstract. As narrator, Albom brings calm warmth and gentle tension to Alfie’s journey, using subtle tonal shifts that keep the story intimate and grounded. The gentleness and empathy of his narration makes the audiobook feel as comforting as a warm bath. Tender and emotionally direct, Twice asks us what we would change if we could, and what might be lost if we did.
