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Opposite Of Always – Justin A. Reynolds
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OPPOSITE OF ALWAYS : Can You Relive The Worst Moment Of Your Life To Save The One You Love ?

Justin Reynolds
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A Bittersweet Fantasy Fiction Story Of Friendship, Young Love And A Teen Caught In A Loop In Time Between The Day He Meets Kate & The Day She Dies A Few Months Later.

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ISBN 9781509870042
Book Condition WELL USED
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Publication Date 04 Apr 2019
Pages 320
Weight 0.43 kg
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When OPPOSITE OF ALWAYS begins, high school senior Jack King is infatuated with his best friend’s girl. He’s a sweet, nerdy kid who’s loyal to both of them; he’ll never act on his feelings. Then Jack meets Kate, and they fall in love. But their relationship is doomed. Kate has sickle cell anemia.
 
Kate dies. Jack collapses and is transported back in time to the night he and Kate met. He finds himself in this loop again and again, trying different ways to get Kate the expensive experimental treatment that might save her life or to spend more quality time with her before she dies. In his desperate attempts to save Kate, can he stay true to his ethics and his other friendships?
 
When Jack and Kate meet at a party, bonding until sunrise over their mutual love of Froot Loops and their favorite flicks, Jack knows he’s falling—hard. Soon she’s meeting his best friends, Jillian and Franny, and Kate wins them over as easily as she did Jack.
 
But then Kate dies. And their story should end there.


Yet Kate’s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate’s there again. Healthy, happy, and charming as ever. Jack isn’t sure if he’s losing his mind.
 
Jack doesn’t travel through time deliberately. He just keeps finding himself at the party where they met, again and again. Each time, Jack attempts to prevent her death — including through unethical activities like gambling on a game where he knows the outcome to get the money for an experimental medical treatment.
 
Still, if he has a chance to prevent Kate’s death, he’ll take it. Even if that means believing in time travel. However, Jack will learn that his actions are not without consequences. And when one choice turns deadly for someone else close to him, he has to figure out what he’s willing to do to save the people he loves.
 
Jack King is the King of “almost” with a slew of unfinished projects under his belt. He’s almost athletic, almost a rock star, almost at everything.
 
He is sitting on the stairs at a college party staring at his best friend and unrequited love interest Jillian, when he meets Kate. These two teens forge a bond over the love of cereal, bad dance moves, and nerdy movies. Jack becomes the Cap’n to Kate’s Crunch until Kate is a no-show at Jack’s high school prom. Jack survives the heartbreak through the efforts of Jillian and his other best friend Franny “Francisco,” Jillian’s boyfriend.
 
Jack learns that Kate has sickle cell anemia and was in the hospital during prom. While at the hospital, Kate tells Jack about a doctor who has some promising experimental trials, but the treatment is expensive. Jack goes home to rest only to be awakened by a phone call from Kate’s mother telling him that Kate has died.
 
Jack and Kate do a lot of kissing, but the way it’s presented is tender and not graphic. One scene implies (vaguely) that they may just have had sex. Jack and Jillian, his best friend’s girlfriend, also kiss (with tongue). Jack, an underage teen, drinks shots with his friend’s dad, an ex-convict who’s acted as his bookie. A teen character is shot by a homeowner while cutting through a gated community.
 
He’s headed to his car when falls down the stairs and wakes up back at the college party where he first met Kate. Jake’s life now cyclically reboots as he attempts to save Kate and maintain his friendships. This is a love story about friendship with a “choose your own adventure” twist. The humor in this story will keep readers engaged. Any teen who’s ever wanted a do-over will enjoy reading this story.
 
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About the Author
Justin A. Reynolds has been a pest control operator, night security guard, steel mill janitor, NASA intern, salesman of high-end faucet fixtures, and carpet flooring installer. He was most recently a registered nurse before trading his stethoscope for a pencil, but he likes to think both instruments reveal the heart. He lives in northeast Ohio, home to snow, Lake Erie, and the Cavaliers. Opposite of Always is his first novel.

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