3.5 Stars 

This was super depressing for the first 35% then it slowly got better.

I still have lots of thoughts and need to process. This commuting suicide and going back into the past trope maybe isn’t for me. 

Lots of trigger warnings - loss of loved one, depression, and suicide.

Thank you Hachette Audio and Netgalley for an advanced copy for my sassy thoughts.

So, I’m sad to say that I put off this book for a while because of some health issues going on in my family. I was afraid it would trigger my anxiety a little too much. I’m sad to say I put it off because I really liked this book. 

Let’s start with Kate, our main character. Kate is probably one of the characters I’ve liked most. She’s funny without trying to be, but she’s also relatable and realistic. 

Aside from Kate, this book ended up going in a direction that was unexpected. It was such a beautiful ending and exactly what I wanted while also being what I didn’t know I wanted.

I would like to thank NetGalley, Hachette Audio, and Robert Webb for a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Well, that's 7 plus hours I can't get back. Yep, that's exactly what I thought when I listened to the last page of this one, and it's still what I think after giving it a few days to mull it over. I tend to jot down thoughts about a book as I read or listen, and looking back over those notes, I see that my opinion hasn't improved since I scribbled those thoughts down. The most standout of those are the words info dump in bold and underlined letters. Lots and lots of info dumps. Now, I don't like that style in any book, even those I'm reading, but they take on a whole new level of irritating in an audiobook. I mean, sooner or later, I'm going to start zoning out, and then I have to rewind to see if I missed something important. Even more irritating is when the info dump is about a character who is neither important or even seen again. 
The thing about this book is that I had it loaded up and was ready to listen when I lost my own husband quite suddenly. Needless to say, I knew this one would have to wait. I really wasn't sure that I'd be able to get through it at all, and the first part was as difficult for me as I expected. The second part wasn't as difficult, partly because those earlier mentioned info dumps were starting to wear on me. But the third part was just... Well, bad is the only word that comes to mind. That third part kind of felt like a rough draft with ideas being bounced around, and it just didn't work for me.
Since I am discussing the audiobook, I will add that the narrator, Olivia Colman, does a good job giving Kate a voice. So, I would listen to her again, just not on a Robert Webb book. Basically, when you look at all three parts together, the continuity is sorely lacking, so I think I'll just chalk this one up to not the one for me, not by a longshot.

Thanks to Netgalley and Little, Brown and Company for giving me the opportunity to listen to and review this audiobook. Author Robert Webb is new to me.
As the story begins, Kate is in deep depression over the loss of her husband to cancer. Her friends have tried to support her. Her boss says she can take all the time she needs, but at the same time wants her to come back to work soon. 
After trying to commit suicide, Kate is suddenly back in college as her 18 year old self. It is the fateful day she meets her husband. She feels she needs to warn him that he already has a cancer growing, but everything goes awry and nothing is like the first time. 
When Kate wakes up, she is back in the present and becomes involved in an action packed sort of spy drama that involves danger and theatrics that are somewhat humorous. Her longtime friend Toby is a huge part of this mayhem.
Although I could relate to Kate and feel her grief, I had a hard time keeping track of the large number of secondary characters. I was very confused at the end about the question of time travel and how all the events could line up. Overall, this audiobook was entertaining and kept me going.
The marvelous Olivia Coleman was the perfect narrator for this audio book. Her great talent enhanced all the character voices. I have been listening to audio books for many years and a good narrator makes all the difference in the world.

The premise of this book drew me in. What if you could go back in time to save your husband? The narrator kept me engaged the entire book. I understand how Kate felt frustrated with the lack of maturity among her friends because she for all intents and purposes was a middle aged woman in the body of a college student. I would definitely read another book by this author.

Wow, this is an awesome book and I loved it very much!  I listened to the audiobook and the narrator was amazing.  She was so funny and I loved the way she changed her voice to suit each of the characters.  

The story is about a middle aged woman called Kate who is feeling depressed because her husband Luke died from cancer.  She has a dream where she goes back in time to see him when they were both teenagers and she helps him in an unexpected way.  When she wakes up from the dream she has to deal with a crazy situation at her work which involves a lot of action and fun.  In the end, Kate is not depressed anymore and she finds happiness with a certain someone.  

I really loved this book and I found it heartwarming, funny, happy, sad, eccentric and everything in between.  It would make a really fantastic movie.  I highly recommend this book and I am so happy to have found a new author, who is very talented.  

I have been really enjoying listening to lots of audiobooks through the netgalley app and discovering all of these new wonderful books and authors that I probably wouldn't have found otherwise.

Thanks to the author, publisher and netgalley for allowing me to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

I liked parts 1 and 2. I just found that part 3 didn’t seem like it fit the story. I liked the idea of time traveling and enjoyed the fact that even though Kate was physically 18, she was still mentally 45. I thought the author did a good job weaving humor into this story.

Kate is a recent widow.  Her husband, Luke, died of a slow-growth cancer that could have been caught if the symptoms were not so minimal.  She is utterly devastated, has lost her job and despite friends wanting to help her, she doesn't want to see them.  Then one day she wakes up and it is 1992 and she realizes that she hasn't even met Luke yet which means that she can arrange to meet him and warn him that he already has a slow growing cancer so that he can get treatment and maybe she can save him.  Of course, the best laid plans .....

I listened to this as an audio book and it was a fun read.  Olivia Colman was the narrator and she was wonderful.  Her sharp, crisp narration reminded me of her character on Broadchurch.  I highly recommend listening to this as an audio book rather than just reading the text.

3.5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley for providing a copy of the audio book to me in exchange for an honest review.

I wanted to like this so much more than I did sadly.

For the first two thirds I was loving it; there was a cast of interesting characters and a good concept. However, the main draw was that Olivia Coleman is a complete boss at narrating this! I could listen to her all day.

What let me down about the novel was the random inclusion of a spy, a USB stick with sensitive data that could topple Western society (paraphrased from the book) and car chases. It was all a little bizarre and felt like it belonged in a different novel.

As for the main plot of Kate, the bereaved widow, travelling back to in time to her 18 year old self when she meets her deceased husband, Luke, again, it was interesting. It was broadly well executed, with passages where she adjusts to having a youthful body again and meeting an immature Luke coming across as very amusing and 'accurate' for how it would feel to be in the situation she was in. 

However, I really hated the ending and was left thinking 'eh?!'. The ending made me wonder what the point in the book had been as I didn't feel like I came away with any deeper thinking or understanding of the characters or their experiences..

Thanks to Hachette audio and Netgalley for access to this audiobook.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review. 

I have so many mixed feelings about this book. It is split into three parts - I LOVED the first two parts, and was sure that this was going to be a 5 star read. 

And then part three happened. A high speed car chase from Russian heavies and rescued by the MI5 and cabbies? Not for me. It made no sense and ruined the book. 

I had so many theories while reading and I definitely did not expect what actually happened. 

There was so much potential, but unfortunately the ending just really switched the genre into something that I don’t enjoy. I wouldn’t recommend this to others as the ending angered me so much.

The blurb for Come Again lied to me.  I was sold on the heartbreaking story of a newly widowed woman waking up on the day she first met her future husband, given the chance to live it again and -hopefully- save his life.  What I found was a semi-humerous chaotic russian-mafia/taxi-spy story following a depressed and suicidal 42yr old woman who decides life isn't worth living without her husband, so why not blackmail a mob leader?  It took a full third of the book for her to actually 'wake up' in the past, where she wreaks havoc for a day and decides she didn't much like her future husband anyway.  Jump back to the present for some spy stuff, a car chase, and very impressive karate moves for a woman who hasn't practiced for 20+ years, and eventually an epilogue where we find out her husband somehow survived, moved to another country and lived his life, while also being dead?  
I really struggled through this book, and while I might have picked it up to read knowing what the story was actually going to be, it was so much harder to push through with it being so different to the blurb, bringing it down to 2/5 stars.

Come Again is a powerful story of grief, love, and discovery. Robert Webb weaves a compelling story, focusing on the recently widowed Kate Marsden. After her husband's sudden death, she's left to discover what life is like without him. When she wakes up one day, eighteen again and in her college bedroom, she's forced to face the question of whether it's possible to fall in love for the first time again.

This story stuck with me, and though it took me longer to listen to the audiobook than it would have if I were reading a physical or digital copy of the book, but that wasn't due to the story itself. Olivia Colman was a fantastic narrator, and I loved how she gave each of the different characters distinct voices throughout the book. It made the audiobook format easy to follow.

I enjoyed Kate as a main character. She's brutally honest, and I really felt like I could relate to her, despite being at a different place in my life and in different circumstances. The pacing varied throughout the book, which is probably the one thing I would have liked to see different. The beginning part of the book was set in the present day, and it lasted longer than I expected. The pacing improved through the middle and end of the book.

Many thanks to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for the copy of the audiobook in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Could not finish. Even the mellifluous voice of Olivia Coleman did not pull me in. What a lot of whining.

Thank you to Netgalley for this copy in exchange for an honest review (although I ended up buying a copy as I didn't download in time).
I enjoyed this book (which is superbly narrated I might add) but I didn't love it. The plot was clever, moving and funny, however there were too many political references for my liking. 
I read/listen for escapism not to be reminded of the things taking place around me.

A well done time traveler story. It was not exactly what I was expecting. I liked it but did not love it.

The narration is the star on this one- the content was okay, I didn’t think it to be overly original, as there have recently been other books reflecting on loss, opportunities and choice in a similar manner but I felt like Olivia Coleman killed it and I would love to hear her read everything for me going into the future. I would read another story by this author but this one was not overly memorable for me unfortunately.

This was not what I expected after reading the blurb. I’ve listened to this book and the narrator was great a lil bit hard to keep up with the thick accent at first but you get used to it. I totally hated the first part Of the book and found it too long and sadly boring. Things started to get better at the second part but it was a bit of a mess. Too many topics discussed and it didn’t have anything to do with the book IMO. Lastly the third part was like taken out of an action movie and I was suddenly confused by everything that was happening. Its an okay book. Something was missing for my taste. The blurb sounded kind o romance but honestly don’t know what genre could it be classified. Also I had high hopes for the time travel topic and it wasn’t that big of a deal. The epilogue just confused me even more at last. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the audiobook

About the story:

The book is divided into three parts.

The first is Kate suffering because her husband Luke died of cancer.
The second is Kate who sleeps and wakes up at the age of 18, in the day she meets Luke, and she tries to make him fall in love with her again and let him know that he has cancer and needs to go to the doctor. But getting him to fall in love again is harder than it looks, Kate may be 18 again, but she has a 40-year-old mind and she doesn't have much patience for a teenager.
The third is Kate waking up from the dream and having to deal with the loss of her husband and a difficult situation at work. This part has a lot of action that doesn't  match the pace of the story and yet the explanation for time travel was fast and confusing.

About the audio book

First i would like to say it was my first time listening to a book, so for me was not a good experienced.  i could not concentrated and focus in the story.
I have enjoyed the experience of hearing the emotions of the characters, i think this bring us closer to the characters because we can feel them, they see more real to me. 
I did not like the fact that was only one narrator, the was doing the voices of all characters and pretend to be male. I would like more the story if it has more than one person making the voices.

This was an easy read, and a great audiobook. I enjoyed the narrator and the pace of this one. 
Thank you for the opportunity for Audiobooks!
Kate’s husband Luke – the man she loved from the moment she met him twenty-eight years ago – died suddenly. Since then she has pushed away her friends, lost her job and everything is starting to fall apart.

One day, she wakes up in the wrong room and in the wrong body. She is eighteen again but remembers everything. This is her college room in 1992. This is the first day of Freshers' Week. And this was the day she first met Luke.

But he is not the man that she lost: he’s still a boy – the annoying nineteen-year-old English student she first met. Kate knows how he died and that he’s already ill. If they can fall in love again she might just be able to save him. She’s going to try to do everything exactly the same…

So I have this book on my shelf but the app is not showing the audiobook available to me. Not sure why I can't listen to this one.