Thank you to Netgalley & Maryam A.H. for the ARC!!!

Wow, this book really got to me! It's super tender and emotional – like, you feel everything. It's about Asher and Alessia, and their story is both broken and hopeful.

There are some dark and sad parts, but also so much kindness. I just wanted everything to be okay for them. The book really shows how important support and love are for healing.

I'm really glad I read it. It made me think about how we connect with each other, and it made me want to hug all my friends and make sure they're doing okay!

For a debut, this book is seriously impressive! The multiple POVs weave together complex storylines effortlessly, and the found-family dynamics make the story even more heartwarming. I’m already hooked and can’t wait to see what this author does next!

First of all, I want to thank the author for giving me the opportunity to read this ARC and give my honest opinion on the book.

I have to be honest, I was really struggling to keep reading the book all the way until the 90% mark because I thought the plot twists were actually pretty good ideas, but everything was poorly executed in my opinion.

It was hard to get into because of the choppy sentences and unnatural conversations with characters that even in the end lacked a lot of depth for me. It read like a book that was only imitating the true story and gave the shortest possible synopsis. What I really missed was a better structured closeness of the main characters. It gives us all the facts but in a way that feels very unfinished. Therefore, I couldn’t bring myself to care about any of the characters and in the end, what happened to them as well. The writing did not capture the true depth of their actions and trauma and made them very one-dimensional. A lot of the conversations were repetitive, unnatural and did not feel logical to any emotions but were just there for the plot.

The plot itself has a lot of potential, but as I said, it is poorly executed, and his final revelations seem very strange and resigned just because. So in the end everything fell flat for me and it felt as if I didn't really get to know anyone, he side characters had SO much potential to do more or to be seen more, the relationships between them could be exlained better. Everything about their parents was not described well enough and could easily leave you confused.

In my opinion the book needs to be heavily edited and restructured.

For a first book, the writing was so good! I loved the multiple POVs with their complex storylines and the found family vibes alongside it. I cannot wait to read more from this author!

“You can’t choose who you fall for. You don’t always get to choose the ending you want”

!!! Please read triggers before continuing with this read !!!

In To Be Someone All Over Again, we are following Asher, who is grieving the loss of his friend Tyler and communicates with his ghost. Asher is lost, and wants to end it all. But then Asher meets Summer and she is full of life and she is the presence he needed to find his way back to himself.

When I first started reading this I was highlighting to the high heavens. The grief, the loneliness, the ptsd. When I first stated reading I thought “ I need this book more than it needs me” however halfway through it lost me a little. I had to re read several chapters. We start off in Asher’s POV and then Summers POV is added in but the random chapters in other peoples POV was confusing as they all had the same voice and flow. There wasn’t much of a distinction between characters and I had to constantly remind myself from whose POV we were in.

That wasn’t even the only time I was confused. I think that was the point though. The point was that no one was a reliable narrator. And although I understand why we were kept in the dark along side Asher, it made it challenging to read. I wanted to love this book so bad and keep trying but in the end, the book just didn’t have the emotional impacted expected. I was so emotionally attached from the start but even with that attachment, I had to reread so much at the end I just didn’t feel the impact. This also affected how the plot twists didn’t hit right either.

I still think the author is a great storyteller and shall they write another book, I would love to pick up a copy.

Thank you to NetGalley for the Arc in exchange for an honest review

you can hurt with this book, heal with this book and most of all feeeeel with this book.
what a tender, touching and deeply emotional book.
broken.
falling.
and yet...maybe...not?
this book had me all the way through and im so glad i got the chance to read it.
we have troubles in this book. some really dark and sad ones. but somehow we also have hope and kindness.
i felt so much for our main characters. i ended up just wanting them to be ok. for it to be ok.
healing is support. is love. is connection. we feel ourselves when accepted,loved,held. we heal ourselves with feeling safe. and that comes from many forms and in many forms.
im glad i got to read this book. it made a difference to my day.
it made me want to scoop up the people i love and check, check again on them.

** there are of course some people that might find the themes too much. and thats ok. its ok if you dont read books that cover things that are too close to your pain either one you are in or have had. its braver always to protect yourself.

★★★★☆ 4/5 stars

🌷 Thank you to Netgalley and Maryam A.H. for the ARC.

This isn't my usual genre but I liked the cover and summary a lot and I was very happy to receive an ARC of this.

The story follows multiple POVs but mostly Asher's and Alessia's. Asher is a young troubled man who sees his dead best friend and the book starts with him trying to end his life. Interrupted by Alessia, she will try to save him at any costs, even her own spark.

The writing is really nice for a young author's first book; it's quite poetic but sometimes lacks depth. I wish we could have had more descriptions and maybe less dialogues; a bit more of "sitting together in an enjoyable silence" vibe.

I liked the multiple POVs and seeing what the different characters were thinking and how they were analyzing what was happening and the relationship between them. While the middle of the book got a little lengthy, I really liked the beginning and the end. I do wish we had more hints and plot twists throughout the whole book and not just the end but overall the story still made sense and it wasn't too hard to follow/keep up with the events.
The morale of the story is very found family-ish; I loved that very much. True love isn't "just" being a couple: it's also the friends and family supporting us and caring for us. This book does a great job highlighting the friendly, platonic love people have for each other.

I think I'm too much of a cynical to fully enjoy this nowadays but younger me would have been jumping up and down reading this. It could definitely be a hit with the teens/YA audience!

I wish the author a happy first book release and lots of support & love for this. A kind and sweet author says a lot about the type of books they publish and the authenticity and heart of their writing and it really shows in this book.

Thank you for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This book was difficult to get through. The writing is weak, and much of the dialogue felt vague or overly broad. The characters came across as awkward and overly edgy, and the emotional weight the story was aiming for just didn’t land. I couldn’t bring myself to care. I ended up skimming the second half because so much of the text felt like unnecessary filler.

This doesn’t feel like a case of “just not the book for me”—it feels like a first draft that still needs significant editing and reworking before it’s ready for readers.