Can’t Wait Wednesday – SOME OTHER NOW by Sarah Everett
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, which encourages fellow bloggers to spotlight upcoming releases that we’re excited about. It is a meme that I have loved participating in for over a year now, but as Jill is no longer actively posting, from now on I’ll be linking to Can’t Wait Wednesday, hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings, which is a spinoff of the original WoW meme.
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My selection for this week is SOME OTHER NOW by Sarah Everett. This Is Us is one of my favorite TV shows so seeing this book described as This Is Us for teens called to me like a moth to a flame. With that comparison, I’m pretty sure it’s a book that will have me reaching for the tissues.
SOME OTHER NOW by Sarah Everett
Publication Date: February 23, 2021
From Goodreads:
This Is Us for teens, this luminous and heartbreaking contemporary novel follows a girl caught between two brothers as the three of them navigate family, loss, and love over the course of two summers. For fans of Far From the Tree, Emergency Contact, and Nina LaCour.
Before she kissed one of the Cohen boys, seventeen-year-old Jessi Rumfield knew what it was like to have a family—even if, technically, that family didn’t belong to her. She’d spent her childhood in the house next door, challenging Rowan Cohen to tennis matches while his older brother, Luke, studied in the background and Mel watched over the three like the mother Jessi always wished she had.
But then everything changed. It’s been almost a year since Jessi last visited the Cohen house. Rowan is gone. Mel is in remission and Luke hates Jessi for the role she played in breaking his family apart. Now Jessi spends her days at a dead-end summer job avoiding her real mother, who suddenly wants to play a role in Jessi’s life after being absent for so long. But when Luke comes home from college, it’s hard to ignore the past. And when he asks Jessi to pretend to be his girlfriend for the final months of Mel’s life, Jessi finds herself drawn back into the world of the Cohens. Everything’s changed, but Jessi can’t help wanting to be a Cohen, even if it means playing pretend for one final summer.
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I’d love to hear what upcoming book releases you’re waiting on this Wednesday? Leave me your link in the comments below and I’ll stop by and check out your CWW selection for this week. 🙂
Break and crush my heart, why don’t you, Suzanne! What a lovely, heartbreaking choice this is. I;m dying to know what happened to them.
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LOL! I broke and crushed my own heart as soon as I read the synopsis. 🙂
Oh, this sounds like it’s going to be so sad!
Yeah, if the This is Us comparison is apt, I full expect to cry my eyes out.
Wow, maybe I need to start watching This is Us! This sounds really good, thanks for sharing Suzanne😁
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If you like a tearjerker of a show, I definitely recommend it.
How have I missed this one?! It sounds so good and emotional too. Great find.,
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I hadn’t heard of this book but it sounds so interesting and maybe a bit dramatic, which I love in books! I love that cover too. It’s very eye-catching.
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I love the cover too. 🙂
Oh my goodness! This one sounds like a really intense, emotional read, Suzanne. You might need the hankys…
Yes, I’m thinking I’ll need to keep a box of tissues nearby for this one, especially if that That Is Us comparison is accurate. That show kills me every episode.
This one has been on my TBR for a while. I was sad the release date got pushed back, because they had me with the This Is Us reference, and I need to read this book
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Right! I was sold as soon as I saw This is Us and Far from the Tree.
Some Other Now does sound heartbreaking–but good. I hope you enjoy it, Suzanne, when you read it! Have a good week and stay safe and well.
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Thanks Wendy. I hope you and your family are staying safe too.
This sounds pretty intense. Hope you love it!
Thanks Barb, I hope so too. 🙂
It’s the comparison to Far from the Tree that pulls me right in. I seriously *loved* that book and if this one has the possibility of the same emotional impact I am so there.
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Sounds really good! Great pick! You can check out my post in the link below.
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Mmmm I don’t like love triangle(y) stories so I think I’ll avoid Suzanne 😉
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Understandable. I’m not convinced it’s going to be an actual triangle, but we’ll see, lol.
Love the cover of this book and it sounds like it is going to be such an interesting read! I already want to know what it is that happened to make everything go wrong and how she was involved DD:
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Love that, ‘Can’t wait Wednesday’. I love wednesdays because i have a day off in the middle of the week and I usuallly plan some fun improv. I also saw you’re reading Prisoner’s wife and I may read that.
I highly recommend The Prisoner’s Wife if you’re into WWII historical fiction. It’s based on a true story and really blew me away.
This sounds like it’s going to be an emotional read!
I think so too!