You Were There Too

De: Colleen Oakley

Narrado por: Sophie Amoss, Dan Bittner

A USA Today best seller

“A surprising and incredibly satisfying story of chance and fate.” (New York Times best-selling author Taylor Jenkins Reid)

“I read it in one long gulp and didn’t want it to end.” (New York Times best-selling author Jill Santopolo)

Acclaimed author Colleen Oakley delivers a heart-wrenching and unforgettable love story about a woman who must choose between the man she loves and the man fate has chosen for her, in a novel that reminds us that the best life is one led by the heart.

Mia Graydon's life looks picket-fence perfect; she has the house, her loving husband, and dreams of starting a family. But she has other dreams too - unexplained, recurring ones starring the same man. Still, she doesn’t think much of it, until a relocation to small-town Pennsylvania brings her face-to-face with the stranger she has been dreaming about for years. And this man harbors a jaw-dropping secret of his own - he's been dreaming of her too.

Determined to understand, Mia and this not-so-stranger search for answers. But when diving into their pasts begins to unravel her life in the present, Mia emerges with a single question - what if?

©2020 Colleen Oakley (P)2020 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"You Were There Too is a surprising and incredibly satisfying story of chance and fate. From the book's enticing first pages to its startling and electrifying conclusion, Colleen Oakley knocks it out of the park." (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times best-selling author)

"A beautifully woven story of love, grief, and the power we do and don’t have to choose our fate, You Were There Too brought me to tears. I read it in one long gulp and didn’t want it to end." (Jill Santopolo, New York Times best-selling author)

"Oakley delivers a story that overflows with compassion, humor, and the impulsive need to read just one more chapter until you reach the very satisfying end." (Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times best-selling author of The Bookshop at Water's End)

Romantic and Hopeful

Thought provoking, proving not every love story has the ending you come to expect. I really enjoyed this different kind of story

Thought provoking

This was the happily ever after I didn’t see coming. Such a thought provoking story so well told by a narrator that seemed to truly embody the main character.

Dreams

Slow to start but then, wham! I was taken in by the characters and story. I didn’t love the ending but thought it was very fitting for the story!

Should come with a warning

This was a good listen, but it should have a warning that this book involves death. Not just the miscarriages. The last hour of the book is so very sad. It wasn’t the light read I thought it would be.

Entertaining but …

The audiobook was entertaining and kept me busy but, it was a bit cheesy and drawn out in sections. The incessant “what does my dream MEAN” got irritating. The ending was not what I expected, but satisfactory.

Ok. Not my favorite.

The story was a bit strange. About what dreams mean. Not very believable I think. Not as suspenseful as I like. A bit predictable.

Great Read Overall

This is such a good story etc, but the IVF info is flawed. IVF is for women who cant conceive, not for women who miscarry. Some research on that would have made this a better book.

Narrators were great

If you love emotional damage, this one is for you. It had me bawling my eyes out. I love dreams and psychic shit, so this was right up my alley. Get your tissues ready. The ending isn’t what you usually expect, no HEA romance. So be prepared for that. Will there ever be another book for us to get the HEA?

Not What You Think You're Getting

The blurb for this book says it's about two people dreaming of one another and then meeting in real life. And while that is an aspect of the story, that is not what this book is really about. It's about grief. It's about the miscarriages suffered and a marriage slowly eroding. I would not have picked this book for my romance book club had I known it was majorly about miscarriages.

My personal preference

What. Was. That? I wanted to like this so much. And I did. To a point. But it really just feels like it crapped all over my image of fate and soulmates. It’s not the books fault. I appreciate there isn’t always a happy ending or that they look different sometimes but… life is hard. I needed a happier ending.