This was a decent read. It flowed well and I think I liked the characters overall. There’s some teenage angst and some of it is understandable. I think with age, you can see the train crash coming,
What didn’t sit well with me was the time travelling. And then the ending. It just felt too unreal (which it is) and implausible (which it also is). I’ve never had an issue with time travel stories before and I most likely won’t in the future, but this one felt all kinds of flakey and unresolved. A bit thrown together.

A good read, but not the best I’ve read.

I no longer have an interest in reviewing this title but would like to thank the publisher and author for the opportunity, it is now far past the publication and archive date. I have awarded 3 stars to keep this review neutral.

The Opposite of Always has been one of my favourite books from Justin A. Reynolds for a while now. I feel in love with both of the lead characters and the tension that I felt throughout the book was intense. I loved the relationship between Jack and Kate and all of the different interactions that they have in the time travel scenarios. I love a good soft sci-fi story and this really fits the bill. I thought that the way the story uses it was done really great and I credit Justin A. Reynolds as a writer. It was the perfect story, really incoporating humour and heartbreak together. I did just love the Opposite of Always.

I will not be giving feedback on this book as I couldn’t really get into it but I think others may enjoy it.

This book was a kinda beauty, it was slightly heartbreaking but also so funny in places and the connections between the characters were awesome, but I think my favourite thing was how flawed everyone, especially Jack, was! We all make mistakes and we all with we could have a do over. Fantastic!

I didn’t enjoy this nearly as much as I thought I would. It just felt a little too similar to so many other books. It was ok, but nothing necessarily unique. And because of that I really did not feel invested enough in these characters. I feel as though there is an audience that I’ll recommend it to, but it just wasn’t my cup of tea.

This was an unexpected book for me, I didn't think it would hit me as hard as it did. It was such a good story that really gets the emotions going.

This one is such a heartfelt and lovely story. I adored the main characters and loved the set up. Excellent.

The main characters fell in love a bit too quick for my liking but that did not take away from the good storyline.

It was nicely paced story and it reminds you to not take things for granted.

It for sure made me think about my own life and made me emotional at times.

If you're ok with being a little sad after reading then get this book.

Justin A. Reynolds adds a crisp, funny, witty and heartbreaking new voice to YA with Opposite of Always. His writing style is smooth, easy to read and addictive from page one. The characters he’s created are wonderfully human, personable and flawed and I found myself warming to them instantly. (I especially appreciated finally finding characters who share my passion for cereal.)

Going into this with virtually no prior knowledge of the plot, I was pleasantly surprised throughout and was constantly kept on the edge of my seat. I didn’t think it was possible to have my heart almost break so many times but thanks to its plot and structure, I was proved very wrong.

I have a huge amount of admiration for the way Reynolds crafted this book.

I am sorry for the inconvenience but I don’t have the time to read this anymore and have lost interest in this genre. In the past year my reading taste has changed a lot and I no longer enjoy YA contemporary unless it's from a few select authors. Because of this I believe that it would benefit your book more if I did not read and review this book as someone who is already disinterested in the genre, and instead let the reviews of people who do like this genre speak for the book instead. Again, I am sorry for the inconvenience.

An adorable, endearing mediation on first love and the lengths we will go to save those we love. The exciting, pacy narrative and high-stakes plot was made even better by the cast of characters, all of whom were three-dimensional, well-rounded people. The friendships were as wonderful to read about as the love story, and I rooted for everyone the whole way through. Equally romantic and bittersweet, this is a book I will never forget.

This author is fantastic. The voice is authentic and the story was perfectly paced. would recommend to fans of the genre.

This... was not what I expected. I'd never read a book by Justin A. Reynolds but I definitely consider more in future.
This is a cutesy emotional time-travelling romance novel. It for me was quite reminiscent of Groundhog Day but our main character realises it a lot sooner and makes some drastic changes to try and change his future.
The writing on this isn't what I usually like, I'm not a huge fan of breaking the fourth wall and it takes me out of the story but this was written quite well and was a super quick read.
I think my favourite part of this was the friend relationships. They were so realistic and broke my heart at times, more than the romantic relationship in this. This should be the real take away from this book.
Overall I wasn't blown away but I did enjoy it and was entertained throughout.

3/5 Stars

This is a fantastic concept but I really didn't like the way that the author executed it.

I had issues with how quickly Jack and Kate fall in love and also with how sometimes this book just seemed to be d r a g g i n g.

DNF'd this book 40% in, just didn't seem to connect with the characters, they weren't very likeable and I didn't really care about them. I also struggled with the insta-love trope in here as well. Shame as I had high hopes, but unfortunately this one just wasn't for me

First I want to say thank you to Netgalley for giving me early access to this book, unfortunately life gets in the way sometimes and this is me just getting to it.

I’m not going to lie I DNF’d this book, I got 65% of the way through and to be honest I had the opinion that after Kate died the first time this book should have finished... it just seemed to go on forever explaining the same things over and over.

The characters were cute but I didn’t care for them enough to find out what happens in the end, so for that reason I stopped reading. Some parts were cute but I didn’t get the whole time travel thing or how it even became a thing.

I enjoyed this book - I didn't completely love it, but it was fun and had a great message.

The beginning was intriguing and had me hooked straight away. The premise - of someone being stuck in a time loop until he saves the person he loves - was interesting, and I actually had no idea what the book was about when I went into it, so I was surprised.

The time travel thing was a bit weird and I kind of wish it had more rules or more of an explanation. It just seemed to happen and there was no explanation why. It just... happened. I liked it and it was interesting, but even though I like to suspend disbelief when it comes to things like this, I like things like time travel to at least have some sort of explanation behind them and not just happen without reason.

(It made me think of the episode of Community where they roll the dice to decide who gets the pizza, and Abed talks about how they're creating 6 different timelines. What happened to the rest of the timelines? Surely living the same loop over and over would have some sort of consequence in the fabric of time?)

But despite that, I enjoyed the story. I loved the friendships and the way Jack's parents treated his best friend Franny like a son of their own. I think it also dealt with the topic of sickle cell disease well and I learned a lot about it that I didn't know before.

Overall, good, fun story with a message about how important life is - but I just wish the time travel was more explained on a deeper level than just happening without reason.

This is the story of Jack & Katie who meet at a party on the stairs, they fall in love and have a great relationship, but Katie dies. Jack suddenly feels strange and when all clears, he is back on the stairs where it all started and Katie is walking down the stairs.
This book is like a modern ground hog day but with a twist. Jack has to work out how he must save Katie, but also along the way he needs to make right of other situations. The story is funny, poignant and heart-breaking all at the same time. The characters are easy to get to know and as you get to know their story, you can't help but have empathy and pure love for them,
Brilliantly written although where the narrative changes in sections can throw the reader off. Personally I found it a refreshingly different love story and would not only recommend reading it but would love to see it on a screen.

I thought it’d just be another cute young adult book but I became so invested in the characters and the story, I couldn’t put it down! Absolutely loved it and what it reminded me of... to not take love for granted.