I Know How This Ends
A Novel
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4.7 • 23 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
If you knew how your life would turn out, what would you change now?
The second brilliantly uplifting and page-turning novel from the multi-million bestselling author of Geek Girl and Reese's Book Club Pick Cassandra in Reverse.
Margot Wayward is in manically gleeful self-destruct mode. Following the implosion of a ten-year relationship, she’s wilfully derailing her successful career, joyfully taking down men on dating apps, and living in total chaos.
Until one day, when Margot has a vision of herself with a man she’s never met before. She doesn’t believe in fate. But when Margot meets single-dad Henry, the vision comes true: exactly as she’d foreseen it.
As her future continues to reveal itself, a glimpse at a time, Margot realises she knows exactly what’s going to happen, and when. And there’s nothing she can do to change any of it.
So Margot has to decide how to live, how to love again, and how to be herself… Because if you can’t change your destiny, how on earth do you live your present?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
The notion of free will vs. fate is poignantly explored in this appealing romantic dramedy. Meteorologist Margot Wayward is frantically trying to get over a broken romance by aggressive serial dating, and she’s experiencing the kind of nightmares you might expect (sexist, married, boring, etc.) when she starts having visions of her future, with a man she doesn’t know. Then she meets him—a lovely single dad named Henry—but the idea of having her future planned out scares her, no matter how much she falls in love. Author Holly Smale draws us right into Margot’s world, her relationships with her best friends and family, and her increasingly successful job as a weather blogger with heart and humor, as Margot learns to lean into her gift and balance her life right now with her future. I Know How This Ends is charming and compulsively readable.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Smale's whimsical follow-up to Cassandra in Reverse, a British meteorologist begins seeing visions of her own future. Margot Wayward recently broke off her engagement to the handsome but irritating Aaron after catching him with one of her closest friends, Lily. She has visions of a happy life with Henry, a waiter at the restaurant where she regularly meets dates as she attempts to move on from Aaron. After Henry observes each of Margot's dates go awry, he tries to strike up a rapport with her. She has her guard up, however, given Aaron's betrayal and her dates' duplicity (one turned out to be married). Still, in her visions, Henry appears to be a key part of her future, and she becomes close to him after learning that he lost his wife, Amy, to cancer, which also upended his medical studies. Margot's impressed to learn that Henry will soon be returning to medical school to follow his dream of becoming a doctor. Smale keeps the novel afloat with lovable characters, a few surprises, and Margot's optimistic perspective. Readers are sure to be charmed.
