This book is fantastic! I loved it and cannot WAIT to discuss with my friends and family! I am going to buy them physical copies as soon as it is out--I loved it that much & want to spread the love!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read this advanced copy.

Oh My Goodness- this book. It's beautiful! I almost don't want to review it because I want to keep it for myself, internalize it, live on the cloud of peacefulness and wonder this book lifted me to. I don't want other to taint my vision. My review can not do this book justice. But on the other hand, I can not wait to share it with everyone I know, especially other book lovers and kind hearts, to discuss and let the visions flow. This book has already made it as my "Best of 2023", and I felt that way within the first two chapters.

This book is about a book; it's place, and long term impact on different people. It is almost a book of short stories, each character perfectly drawn, emotional and open. You can feel their thought processes, their pain, their desire to keep taking one step forward and get MORE. Even the sub characters are so transparent and good. But it's not only short stories, because each story has a small, subtle, tie to another character in the book, relationships to other characters becoming more prevalent toward the end of the book. The full circle is achieved at the end, and left to a very satisfying ending, but leaves you empty because these wonderful characters have left your life. This was a book- and ironically this feeling was talked about in the book- that you HAVE to keep reading because you are so drawn in, but you have a feeling of sadness as the pages go by because you know the book will end.

5 bright and shining stars- radiating in every direction. I will have to wait a few days before starting another, I need to wallow in these stories for a while. I can not wait to read this book again- however, a little sad that I won't have that "first time" experience again with this beautiful, peaceful, loving book. Wow. I've already recommended it to 3 people, and they have to wait months for it to be released. Then however many more months for word of mouth to get this book into the hands of every book club. What a glorious addition to the book world.

Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin's Press for the copy of No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister. I’m an avid reader and reading about how one book affects the lives of nine very different people was irresistible to me. I loved how the plot of the book, Theo, was explained in relation to what some of the characters were going through. I also loved how each character had their own challenge and journey that impacted how the book influences them. Even if you’re not an ardent reader, you don’t want to miss this heartwarming and thought provoking read. I already know this will be one of my favorite books of 2023!

I absolutely loved this beautiful, fantastic book! So well written with great character development-you’ll love them all.
I particularly loved how the previous readers kept turning up as the book progressed. Every reader finished the book not with the same conclusion or feeling, but they all found what they needed in their own circumstance at the time. So well thought out and articulated. I will need to read more by Erica Bauermeister!
Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for this amazing opportunity.

In No Two Persons, we are presented with a series of vignettes about readers of the same book, showing how the same book can be experienced differently by different readers. The book opens showing us how the book came to be written by a young woman named Alice. From there the book moves through time and various readers, illustrating the concept between the title.

This is an ode to the power of stories and reading that can unite people across generations and countries. Well written, and well plotted, I enjoyed each chapter, and meeting each new character and seeing how the book within a book impacted their lives. Certainly, a book for book lovers, about book lovers.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the electronic ARC for review.

I fell in love with this book reading the first chapter. I'm so glad I was able to read an advance copy of it thanks to the publisher and Netgalley. The premise of the book is original, the writing is beautiful and effective, and the characters are all relatable. The author did a great job ultimately tying the various stories together. I also enjoyed the look behind the scenes of the publishing industry. This is a perfect book for book lovers. This was my first book by this author, and I plan to read her previous books and look forward to her next one. I highly recommend this book and think it would be a great selection for book discussion groups.

An apt title for a thoroughly enjoyable book. Books do matter in people’s lives. This is an eloquently written story about, of all things, a novel. However, it is so much more than that. At times it seemed I was reading a series of short stories, but each chapter has a relevancy to the main theme that everyone reads a book differently and books affect people’s lives in many ways. I really enjoyed the storytelling in this book. Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read and review an advance copy of this book.

What a wonderful novel---my favorite so far this year. The author has written a love story about the power of books and how they help us and how they connect us to one another. I hope to read more by her.

The ultimate ode to the power of a story! I loved the interweaving stories that make up "No Two Persons" -- and how they showed the myriad ways one book can affect different lives. From the people who identified with its characters to the ones who used it to create something new, the story in "No Two Persons" has the power to change lives in ways big and small. I couldn't put it down.

No Two Persons, by Erica Bauermeister, is a carefully crafted novel about the influence of one book on multiple people’s lives. We start out with Alice, the author herself, as she goes through college and gains the skills and courage to write her life changing novel. We then meet multiple different individuals and see how Alice’s novel has impacted their lives in ways big and small. Their lives are all incredible different but yet still all changed by the same novel. I loved how unique the novel was but it took a while for the book the come together for me - it was kinda messy for a while. I feel like I almost need to reread it to see if I missed something or get a more complete picture or if that’s just how it is! Love the concept, just wish the execution was a little neater.

I immediately got pulled into this story and I think the first 1/4 was especially well done. I was very invested in Alice writing the book, and the first few installments of people reading it/being touched by it. As the book went on, I didn’t feel as strongly. I do think the idea and the concept is really well done; truly every character introduced who’s life is touched by the book in some way is unique and gives a different perspective. I like that while there were loose threads that tied all the sections together, they weren’t the expected threads and they didn’t repeat or give the same type of feeling at all. I really enjoyed the book overall and think it would do particularly well as a book club read. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to provide my honest review.

I loved this book! You meet Alice and learn a little about her life and the book she writes. Next, you meet a variety of people that are impacted by her book, whether by reading it or just having it make a brief appearance in their life. As you learn how each person is influenced in different ways by the same book, you see how some of the lives intertwine and reactions to the story influence later events. I finished it in a day because I couldn’t put it down and even two days later, the story still resonates.

This is one I will give and recommend to other book lovers.

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin's Press, and Erica Bauermeister for the eARC.

I didn’t want this book to end, and I still don’t.

This is a very special book about a very special book. I was so engaged that when I started reading it, I read 25% of it in the first 24 hours. And every time I put it down, I found I wanted to get back to it as quickly as possible. I feel like I needed this book, but I can’t exactly tell you why.

The structure of the book is akin to nine or ten short stories linked together by a common theme. But that doesn’t begin to touch the emotional resonance that the author has created. The characters’ lives are deeply linked without them knowing it. It’s as subtle as it is deep.

Alice writes a book because the character “came” to her and she couldn’t not tell his story. The rest of the stories within the story are about how very different people “came” to Alice’s book. I love Erica Bauermeister for her insight and her wisdom. Perhaps that’s all I should say.

A really sweet ode to books and reading. It wasn’t a typical novel, structured more like short stories that are loosely connected. I don’t typically like short stories but enjoyed reading this and the creativity of all the different characters and how they might have encountered the novel within the novel. I wanted to know a little more about the novel within the novel, but enjoyed how it was slowly exposed bit by bit with each chapter.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advance reader copy of this book, in exchange for an honest review. No Two Persons is essentially a story about a story and ultimately, a tribute to the power of books. The novel opens with the story of Alice, a girl who has always wanted to be a writer and has spent most of her life chasing this dream but, has always come up just short of the mark. This is until she experiences something so completely life altering and shattering that she ultimately writes a masterpiece of a story as a way through her grief.

From there, the rest of the book is told in short stories about other characters, from completely different walks of life and backgrounds but, who are ultimately affected in some way by the book that Alice wrote. We see the way this book teaches our characters things about themselves, about people they love, and how these things they learned ultimately change the course of their lives.

Anyone who loves books, loves to read, and/or has experienced the power of what a story can do or how it can make you feel will most likely resonate with this book. Even though I could not relate to some of the issues faced by our characters, I could still understand how they felt when some part of Alice’s book clicked with them. Sometimes when reading short stories, I find it difficult to keep going in and out of different stories. But, with this book, the common theme that connected them all carried me through and made me want to keep reading.

This book was excellent, I would definitely recommend to book lovers everywhere! This is a special book to have on your shelf and I could definitely envision picking this one up again, at different points in my life, and feeling a piece of that magic again.

A great story about how one book can change the lives of so many people while also connecting them at the same time. Furthermore, it cements the fact that no two persons read a book the same way! A must read for anyone that is inspired by writing, art, or just humanity surviving.

The only downside to the book is that the middle section seemed to drag just a bit. But the beginning and end make it worth the read!!!

This novel is lovely. The story of books...where they come from and who they find along the way, The story is told under the umbrella of "no two persons" read the same book (as we all bring our lived lives along with us) and that no one can read the book the author actually wrote for the same reasons. The stories here intertwine and vine together. This is a beautiful book definitely written for booklovers! Thank you NetGalley and publishers for providing a digital ARC for review.

The most important thing to know about this book is that it's absolutely beautiful. This is my second book by this author (the first being The Scent Keeper which y'all also NEED to read), and I am absolutely captivated by her writing. At its core, this is a book about the power of reading. It is about what a book can give its readers and how that can also vary. The story begins focusing on the author of a book that will transcend the rest of the story. Alice is a talented writer that sometimes struggles to connect with her gift, but she finds her voice with Theo. The book is then about a variety of people who find their way to her book. What Theo gives each person is a little different, and that's the power of the story. This book again was just beautiful - I cannot say that enough. I couldn't put it down, and I also didn't want it to end. I actually wish I could read it again for the first time, so it could take my breath away again. Thanks to NetGalley for the early look at this May 2023 release.

No Two Persons was a loveletter to reading. Such a unique premise that I absolutely loved to see come to fruition. Seeing how one book affected so many different lives was so relateable and heartwarming.

I enjoyed this book. The plot was unlike other books iv read and I enjoyed the different perspectives. The impact of a book will have different meanings to each reader.