Blink and your life’s halfway over. What if that happens literally?
College party girl Emily Murray bounces through majors and boys until an ill-advised art major leads her to a rebellious relationship with an aspiring rock star. When her father cuts off the college fund—and her boyfriend ditches her to chase a record deal—Emily spirals, hard.
One shaved head and emotional black out later, she wakes up thirty years in the future, living a life she doesn’t recognize as a successful therapist and engaged to a total stranger.
With no apparent way to rewind the clock, Emily scrambles to make sense of her new reality. With a wedding date looming and a competitive therapist threatening her fragile career, Emily is forced to question: Was this really the future she was meant for?
Witty, sharp and unexpectedly heartwarming, Feels Like the First Time, the highly anticipated follow up to This Time Around, is a love letter to our younger selves, reminding us that even when we feel lost, we often end up exactly where we need to be.
Kimberly Packard is an award-winning author of women’s fiction and romance.
When she isn’t writing, she can be found planning her next trip, asking her dog what’s in his mouth, or curled up with a book. She resides in Texas with her husband Colby, a clever cat named Oliver, and a precocious black lab named Tully.
Feels Like the First Time, the follow-up to Kimberly Packard’s This Time Around, was worth the wait. In this time-slip romance, Josie’s best friend, Emily, is the lead, and her adventure takes her from 1996 to 2026.
As someone of the same generation as Emily, it was a hoot to imagine what it would be like to be transplanted from my early twenties to my early fifties. Packard nails the distress of time travel using her signature humor, with observations that had me laughing out loud, such as: “Does my mom live with us?” (when first looking through her closet), “So everything else in the world got more advanced, except bronzer?” and “Are mullets still a thing in the future? That’s unfortunate.” Not to mention figuring out her smartphone and getting a crash course on all the people in her life using social media.
The zingers and funny moments are balanced with poignant wisdom as Emily attempts to answer coming-of-age questions in a fifty-year-old body. She ponders the definition of maturity, what it takes to achieve dreams, and what it means to be an adult. She navigates big feelings about the neglect she experienced after her parents’ divorce, even as she’s faced with a man whose love for her contradicts her belief that “no matter how many people she surrounds herself with, ultimately she’s alone in the world.” And we are along for the ride as she struggles to figure out what normally takes a lifetime to discover—what real love looks like for you in the day-to-day trenches of life.
With the guidance of a sage and sarcastic psychic, Emily eventually accepts that what’s meant to be happens in its own due time. The resolution of Emily’s story, while bittersweet, rings true.
Feels Like the First Time is perfect for fans of time-travel romance and those who enjoy a transformative character arc.
If you enjoyed this book, you might also enjoy: Peggy Sue Got Married, The Time Travelers Wife, and of course, Back to the Future I, II, and III.
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