Dominic messed up 10 years ago and broke off his engagement with Mia, and he’s never gotten over her. A chance meeting, and he jumps at the opportunity for a second chance. That’s as much as I will tell you about this one because I don’t want to say too much. I will say this: HOW TO SAVE A LIFE by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke is a book not to be missed. This is their twist on a Groundhog Day, and it works. I agree with someone else that said you should go into this one blind: I did, and it made things so much more intensely emotional. I recommend you pick this one up but be prepared for the roller coaster of emotions.  My heart broke for Dom as he navigated his days trying to make the choices that would change the outcome and move him to the next day. 
Fenton and Steinke write this story as a team and it comes together seamlessly. There is no distinction between the parts that each writes which continues to impress me. HOW TO SAVE A LIFE is an emotional, thought-provoking, and interesting twist that will stick with you long after you finish.
Thanks to NetGalley and the Publisher for the advanced copy. All opinions are my own.
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This duo does it again! I’ve been a fan since The good widow and at this point I’ll read EVERYTHING these ladies write. This was so different from the other novels and yet so so good. I was so invested in this “groundhog day” story that I almost didn’t even notice it ended because I couldn’t put it down. My gosh, I felt bad for Mia and of course Dom and his predicament! What I loved the most was that more than a romance this was more of a persons journey to let go. Loved it.

Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

-The Fray

Dom is having a bad day alright. A day he is living repeatedly but with enough variations and minor changes that these repetitive days do not become tedious. You see, Dom bumped into his ex-fiancé (the one he has never gotten over and still holds a torch for) and asks her out and she says YES! What could go wrong? Well she dies. Not once, not twice, but over and over - you get the picture.

This is Groundhogs day with a little bit of Final Destination and Happy Death Day thrown in (you might think twice before going to an amusement park - just saying). Each day he learns something new but is it enough to save Mia's life?

Caught in a time loop, can Dom save the woman he loves? Will Thursday ever end? Is he destined to re-live that day over and over again?

Reading about the same day many times does sound tedious, but again, there are enough changes, more information, new things happen, we learn more about the things that happen and each day she dies in a different death. Sounds morbid, I know. Yet, there is a lesson here. Although it's not the more original premise i.e. Groundhogs day, it is an engaging and thought-provoking book. Now, if only I can get The Fray out of my head! "Step one, you say we need to talk..."

So, talking about the book...It's enjoyable (this feels weird to say as Mia dies repeatedly) but I enjoyed the lesson here and I did enjoy how the authors cleverly told their story about Dom, the love of his life, second changes, and......(this is where you read the book to find out for yourself).This dynamic writing duo has done it again!

So good read the book, kiss your loved ones, dance in public, and enjoy your life.

Thank you to Lake Union Publishing and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own

How to Save a Life is an interesting read and one what threw me for a loop. I went into the book without knowing much about it, and I am glad I did.

Dom, our protagonist, unexpectedly runs into his ex-fiancé, Mia, and the love of his life after a decade apart. After their reunion is tragically cut short, Dom cannot stop reliving their last day together. He has to figure out how to get out of the time loop while trying to save Mia and himself.

This book threw me for a loop! As I was reading it, I started to wonder "what is reality," so I had to step away for a bit. I was then able to start the story back up again and appreciate the great writing. I also loved that the book is based in San Diego, which is one of my favorite cities. How to Save a Life definitely made me stop and think about the things in life I take for granted. Overall, it was a unique and interesting read.

Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

4 stars!

"You saved my life. Now maybe it's my turn to save yours." Amanda extends her hand out to me, a life preserver to a drowning man. I take it.


Dom continues to have the same day over and over and over again. He just can't seem to get away from Thursday, June 11th. A few days before that, Dom runs into his ex-fiance, Mia, and can't believe she is at the same coffee shop as him. He has spent the last 10 years thinking about her because she is the one that got away. Dom decides to see if things can work again with Mia but she dies on their date, to his surprise she is alive again the next morning and he's reliving the day all over again. Dom spends his week of June 11th trying to figure out what the secret is to keeping Mia alive and along the way learns a lot about himself.

Every summer I get really excited when a new Lisa and Liz book comes out. What I love most about these two is they give me something that's unique and different. How To Save A Life is so different from what I've been reading and it felt refreshing when I started to dig in. Most people compare this to the movie Groundhog Day meets Serendipity and I totally agree.

This is definitely a story about learning to slow down, accept fate and appreciate what you have in front of you. Although Dom may not have had each day they way he had expected or he was getting annoyed with repetitive actions, he needed to realize there was always a purpose for them. Mia may have been his number one priority and focal point but in the end I felt like he had recognized that he needs to pay attention to more of what's around him and how he can evolve into a better person.

Oh - and one more thing every time I looked or picked this book up, I got How to Save a Life by the Fray stuck in my head for hours 😊

Thank you to Lake Union publishing, Lisa and Liz (the authors) and Kathleen Carter for my advanced copy of this book!

How to Save a Life follows Dom though several identical Thursday’s, in Groundhog Day style, with him trying and failing each night to save his ex-fiancée, Mia’s life. In the end, can Dom figure out how to save Mia’s life or was there another reason he’s stuck repeating the day?

This is my favorite book written by this fantastic team so far. I loved the theme shouting out to us that we need to live each day rather than taking the safe route through life. A creative, enjoyable and fun summer read I’ll be recommending quite a bit.

Simple dialog I think was my first problem. The reimagining of Groundhog Day the novel was the second. Bu reliving the death of this young woman Mia we never get a sense of her and Dom’s future.

Always excited every time Liz and Lisa publish a new book. This time was not any different. I loved how even though this book is so much different from the previous one but their writing style just keep getting better and better.

I love these two authors and will read anything put out by them. I love their thrillers so I didn’t hesitate when they deviated from that. This book was wonderful and heartbreaking at the same time. I definitely recommend it.

I just didn't love this one. The dialogue felt weird and stilted, the main character wasn't very compelling and I wasn't invested in the main relationship. The sort of "mystery" didn't pique my interest.

This Groundhog's Day style book wasn't my favorite from this author pair, but after awhile it did effectively invest me in finding out what was going to happen to the characters and how this would end. It took a long time for main character Dom to become someone I could care about, and throughout the different days we get to see a lot of sides to Mia, some better than others, and it was hard to watch how the day ended for her over and over. If you're new to Lisa and Liz's books, I might start elsewhere, but this was ultimately a decent story, if not a new favorite.

Words cannot describe how much I loved this book!!  I love them both and I love everything they write.  But I truly loved the concept of this book and totally fell for it.  I thought I had an idea of how they were going to end it -- but I was completely wrong.  You are going to love the ending.  Every word of this book is worth its ending!!

This is the first novel I've read by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke, I went into it completely blind and not knowing what to expect. ⁣⁣
The groundhog day plot of the book is fun and unique but I did find it became slightly too repetitive towards the end.⁣⁣
I enjoyed the male narrative and found it refreshing as I don't read alot of male led books.⁣⁣

I was left uncomfortable in places as Dom's efforts to win back Mia and save her life became quite obsessive. ⁣⁣
This book is on the shorter side but has a great pace and I was definitely invested in the story. I was left with a few tears at the end aswell.⁣⁣

How to Save a Life may only be the second book I've read from Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke but it did not disappoint! It is definitely reminiscent of the movie Groundhog Day, and it has such a unique and fresh storyline for a book. It was a little heartbreaking to watch Dom lose Mia over and over again everyday but the progress he made as a character throughout the book was great and I'm giving this one an A for character development as far as Dom goes.

The book and audiobook are both currently on Kindle Unlimited, so I decided to do the audio and I was very impressed. The narrator is Timothy Andrés Pabon and I thought he did a great job voicing Dom and the book as a whole, so I would definitely recommend checking it out if you like audio. I thought the pacing was good, and I listened to it in basically one day which I think would have also applied if I had read the physical copy. The storyline was engaging, and I spent a lot of time wondering how things would end. There is a reveal at the end of the book that I was shocked by and even though I didn't shed any tears, I was dang close to it.

How to Save a Life goes deeper than just magical realism and romance and would be a great book to go into blind. It's full of both serious and funny moments, and even had some suspense although it's not exactly a mystery. Overall I was very impressed by this book and highly recommend it!

Thank you to the publisher for providing me with an advance review copy of this book, all opinions and thoughts are my own.

In their latest, writing duo Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke truly deliver a suspenseful twist on Groundhog Day. We meet Dom, who runs into his ex-fiance and sets up a date which ends, time and time again, in her tragic death. Caught in a traumatic time loop, Dom must figure out the cause in order to save Mia -- the love of his life.

Suspenseful and poignant, it's the kind of book that moves quickly and sucks you in from the very beginning. Through the narrative, Fenton & Steinke explore the notions of fate, soul mates, and one's ability to change.

It was actually okay, I found the characters okay I liked them. The story could be abit slow in some places which did me throw me off but I still mostly enjoyed the story. Thank you for allowing me to have the arc.

How To Save A Life took me by complete surprise. With an emotional take on the “Groundhog Day” theme I found myself pleasantly surprised. Dominic runs into his first love and the one the got away. In trying to hold onto her he finds himself in a time loop trying to save her life. 

This is a beautiful story about hope, second chances and taking risks. This story will definitely make you feel so many emotions and I would definitely recommend 

Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for giving me an ARC!

HOW TO SAVE A LIFE by Lisa Steinke and Liz Fenton delivers a fantastic contemporary romance immersed on a creative take of a “Groundhog Day” plot, in which our main protagonist, Dominic “Dom” a 34 yo journalist living in San Diego, relives his tragic day over and over again.

I love that Lisa and Liz chose to write about Dom, a man instead of a woman in this story as their main character, and I loved how well his character was written – he is a mama’s boy, a creature of habit, doesn’t take any risks, works as a local television show producer who works with his best friend Lance, and who had been living with regret for the past ten years after breaking off an engagement with the love of his life, Mia.

A sudden chance meeting set up by the gods of Fate, while Dom is waiting for a source for his story in a coffee shop, Dom runs into Mia who is back from Illinois after ten years. The story is uplifting, heartwarming, lots of great subplot within the story, and the book read like a Hollywood movie – and what a great movie that would be. It was such a great story that when I started, literally read through in a sitting – it was that amazing!

I felt like this book swallowed me and spit me out at the end! I was feeling all the range of emotions. How much would we each change if we were all stuck in a time loop and had no idea how to decide what decisions and choices to make to alter our future? In this story Dom stops at nothing to try and save his first love, Mia that he has recently reconnected with from her impending death and then it just keeps repeating over and over stuck in a time loop. I loved all the what if’s, second chance with first love and questioning if our fate is predetermined. Thank you to NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for giving me a free copy in advance to provide an honest review.

Groundhog Day meets final destination (minus the graphic scenes). A time loop/ time travel  telling of a love story that will make you rethink the choices we make in life and live everyday as if it were your last. ⁣
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 Ten years after calling of his engagement to the love of his life, Dom runs into Mia. Feeling hopeful and believing fate has brought them back together for a second chance, they agree to catch up and go out on a date. Only, tragedy strikes and Mia dies during this outing. The devastation Dom is left with us unimaginable, and failing to cope with the tragedy, it all seems like a nightmare and not reality. Only the next morning, Dom realizes everything about the start to his day is Deja Vu from the same song playing to his roommate asking the same question as the day before, and Mia is alive. Feeling hopeful, Dom gets to relive the same day over and over again. Can Dom figure out a way to keep Mia safe and alive during this time? ⁣
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This book talks about personal growth and the way many of us learn from our mistakes through growing pains. What I loved most about this book was that it made me think about my personal life choices. What if I had done things differently? 🤔 It has that kind of effect and I loved the underlying message. No matter how differently we choose to do things in life, sometimes the outcome will be the same. ⁣
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It’s difficult to give a concrete review without any spoilers. You will have to read this book to find out how this situation plays out. But, I will tell you the end broke me. I did no see it coming. It was touching, beautiful and emotional. ⁣
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