Great book! So intriguing and original. The two central characters are as intriguing as the plot itself. And when the magically mysterious premise of the book turns out to have a rational explanation it manages to add just another layer of strangeness to it rather than killing the mystery stone dead. Highly recommended.

Such a different book, I enjoyed it and it has left a mark on me. The changing lifetimes and relationships to each other of the two main characters was fascinating. Beautifully written and not readily categorised as one specific genre. How bound by fate are we? How many different lives might we have or would it always bring us back to one fate?

What a fabulous tale .
Thora and Santi were destined to meet - again and again and again -for all eternity so it seems . But there must be some reason behind this -so they desperately set about finding why -before it is too late .

A quirky original story -loved it

Thankyou NetGalley for an ARC in return for an honest review

This was an interesting an unusual read, and I have to say not what I expected - but I enjoyed it overall.

Without giving anything away, the two main characters in the book - Thora and Santi - meet repeatedly in apparently different lives. They don't realise this to start with and their relationship is entirely different in each life - sometimes parent/child, sometimes lovers, sometimes teacher/pupil etc - which is rather confusing at first until you start to get an inkling of what's going on...

The eventual ending was not what I'd anticipated, yet at the same time I recognised that it was the only outcome based on clues earlier in the book.

An intriguing read - recommended if you are a fan of sci-fi - if you're not, you probably won't enjoy it as much.

My thanks to NetGalley and the pubishers for an ARC. All opinions my own.

This story of two strangers fated to meet and lose each other across multiple lifetimes was intriguing and confidently told. However, I did get a bit bored with the narrowness of the story and it's small cast of characters, as only Thora and Santi are given the space for any kind of depth of feeling. I did enjoy the exploration of how our values systems and dreams would be altered by the knowledge that we were forced to live within narrow parameters that would could not control. However, the ending was confusing, i felt, and didn't deliver a convincing explanation of why what happened to Thora and Santi happened. I also thought that the shifting of their relationship from parent to child, friends to lovers, etc, was distasteful, and the explanation, that 'you needed to be everything to each other' just wasn't satisfactory.

Thank you to Netgalley for the chance to read this book in exchange for an honest review. I loved this book I wasnt sure what to expect as it progressed but I can say I was totally not expecting the outcome which was a little strange but it didnt detract at all. Overall a great and different read.

Santi and Thora meet one evening as students. They share a brief yet meaningful conversation which ends with Santi's accidental death. The next time they meet Santi is Thora's teacher and she wants to be an astronaut amongst the stars. In each of their lives together they are always in Cologne. Sometimes the are lovers, sometimes siblings, sometimes friends or colleagues. Eventually they start to remember their previous versions and decide to work out what is happening. Testing their world's limits and questioning everything. Can they work out what is happening to them?

I really enjoyed this. At first the difference in their lives each time is the interesting aspect. Gradually it becomes about discovery and patterns and following clues. This is where the book does get repetitive and drags a little. I did like the explanation at the end. I'm glad it wasn't reincarnation or time travel it was something totally different.

The first few chapters were fascinating but sadly after a time I lost interest. It reminded me a bit ofLife After Life by Kate Atkinson but was not as compelling. I wanted to read more about each of their lives but they were cut off too quickly to care about the characters.

Thora and Santi accidentally meet in Cologne, and feel something that immediately draws them to each other. It might not be the first time they've met, and it certainly isn't the last. Over numerous lives they meet again. Sometimes they're roughly the same age, sometimes one is old enough to be the other's parent or teacher. Each time they're drawn back to the same places in and around Cologne, particularly the old clocktower. Gradually they become aware of the things that repeat from one life to the next. What they need, with increasing urgency, is to find out what it all means, and why this is happening.

It's an ingenious concept - a sort of mash-up between Groundhog Day and Star Trek - and although readable enough in some way or other it didn't really grab me. The telling is a little slow at first, as we get to see Thora and Santi meet up in life after life, but despite this repetition, and seeing them in different situations and different relationships to each other, I never really felt I knew them - and therefore didn't really care how their story worked out.

Thora and Santi meet, gaze at the stars and talk, then one of them dies - over and over again. Each time in different roles, parent and child, lovers, teacher and student, with other repeating characters as partners or friends, and always in the same city. There's a mystery to solve about why they're there, why they can't leave Cologne, what message is the world trying to give them to explain the situation.

This was so clever! The very first iteration of their relationship I wasn't convinced about to begin with, but it really drew me and soon I couldn't put it down. The concept is brilliant and each new relationship was a chance to think about the dynamics there as well as the over-arching one and moving forward in the plot. Some of them were tragic, but they all shaped Thora and Santi and made sense as part of the book. Absolutely brilliant.

I don’t want to say too much about the story or I would be giving the plot away too easily. I didn’t really enjoy it but I was expecting something along the lines of Kate Atkinson’s Life after Life which it certainly wasn’t. However that was my fault not the authors.

I could not decide what I thought about this when I finished it - I do not really know whether or not I enjoyed it.

The book revolves around two characters - Thora and Santi - whose lives keep intertwining. They keep meeting as they live countless lives - in numerous lives they become friends, colleagues, loves and enemies. They have to work out why they keep dying and returning to the same place to live again.

The ending was not what I was expecting - especially the final twist.

An interesting read with a particularly bittersweet ending.

i loved this!

following thora and santi and their many lives, this book looks at the meaning of live, at consequences of decisions, at ambitions, and about family and love, it talks about the way your perspective changes by those around you, your drive in the world, and knowing what to sacrifice and what to fight for

thora and santi meet in cologne in their freshers week at uni. they have a brief conversation at the top of a clock tower and then a few days later disaster happens.

i had no idea where the story was going and i loved how it slowly unfolded, how the pieces slotted into place

it made me laugh it made me cry and it made me think a whole lot. 5/5

**thanks to netgalley and publisher for the copy

A wonderful yet odd book that was beautifully written. I love that the main characters meet over and over throughout the series but managed to keep true to themselves in each lifetime they lived no matter what age they lived and what relationship to each other they were and I found it lovely that they always found each other. For me the ending was unexpected and failed to keep my attention as it went in a completely different way to what I was expecting

I do think however that many people will love the sci-fi concept and I can see this book being a big hit

Thora and Santi keep meeting each other in different lives. Sometimes they are lovers, others siblings, parent and child or tutot and student, and so on. They always have a connection, and interests in common- space, the universe, something beyond their own world- and the important people in their lives also keep reappearing. The two must try to work out what is happening, and if they will be forever travelling through these different lives. This book has received lots of adoring reviews, but for me something was missing. It is full of clever ideas, and it took me a long time to work out what was going on, but the constant changing of the stories meant I never connected with the story or the characters, and I found the narrative uninvolving. I didn’t really like Thora or Santi in any of their incarnations. Just not my kind of book.

I really liked the concept of this story which was the reason I decided I wanted to read it. Meet Me in Another Life follows two characters, Thora Lišková and Santiago (Santi) López, who seem destined to meet again and again in different lifetimes, always in the same city of Cologne but their relationship to one another changes with each encounter. At first, they have no awareness that they have previously met, but that changes as the tale progresses.

It wasn't long before I was consumed by this delightful, emotionally rich story. There were some characters who made reappearances though this might also be in a different context. Confused? Well to be honest I was at times and I occasionally needed to rewind a chapter or two, here and there. Nevertheless, I still found this a deeply philosophical, extremely engrossing read with some beautiful passages and narrative, and a heartbreaking, well-concealed ending. Highly original and well worth a look.

I read Meet Me in Another Life in staves with other Pigeonholers as part of a group. A special thank you to HarperVoyager, Catriona Silvey, NetGalley and The Pigeonhole for a complimentary copy of this novel at my request. This review is my unbiased opinion.

Unfortunately I DNFd this book at 40%….I just couldn’t get it into it and it wasn’t for me. I found it a bit all over the place and was finding it difficult to keep up. The writing style is phenomenal though and if you love alternate universe and sci-fi novels then pick this up!!

Thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins for this e-ARC in exchanging honest reviews.

At first, it is really a promising story. The title itself convincing me to pick up and then I found that oh we're dealing with an alternative universal here. Interesting. Hence I keep moving forward with as I was intrigued with the mysteries of Thora and Santi involved with. Why they're keeping exist in a lot of universe? WHY WHY WHY

A lot of alternative universe of Thora and Santi are written here and each of them are unique BUT I'M SO DAMN TIRED OF READING THEM NOT REALIZING WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THEM till I reached 65% above I guess. It's tiring for me for not be able to guess what's going on and on.

When I reached the uncover mystery part, now we're in Sci-Fi section, interesting. Love it when they're debating about theories.Then I realized this story don't have time travelling thingy but more to confusing alternative universe. Yeah this book is quite confusing as well for me. I love the ending but I just can't go for more but I still finished it.

****reviewed it separately in Goodreads due technical error****

A sadly beautiful novel touching on apparently endless iterations of the lives of the two main characters, with a well structured science fiction basis that ties the tale together.

It’s hard to say more without spoiling, I can only recommend this for its skilful depiction of love - romantic, parental, filial, platonic - and the opportunities across lives

So this book had me hooked - I absolutely loved it - until the denouement. Without wishing to spoil the story, this felt a bit like that entire series of Dallas which turned out to be Pamela Ewing's dream or the final episode of Lost. I wanted to say, "What? That was IT?!!!"
I don't think the blurb really works for the book. The blurb and the comparisons to Audrey Niffeneger's Time Traveller's Wife (which is the first review the publisher has chosen to use on this book's Amazon listing) made me think I was getting a completely different book to this. I think therein lies my disappointment.