The publisher of this book provided free copies of the book to have their book reviewed by a professional reviewer. The Next Together is a heartbreaking tale of love, loss, greater good, and sacrifice.ĭisclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. Though Katherine is a highborn lady in one life and a poor orphan in the next, her tendency to find her own jokes funny remains the same. Though each incarnation is vastly different from those previous, character personalities remain consistent-an argument of nature versus nurture. That relationship is the most comfortable of the book in other lifetimes, they are more absorbed with getting to know each other. As scientists, their notes are sarcastic and joking, though their love remains clear underneath the teasing words.
The couple have a fun, flirtatious bond throughout. As each story is established, interlacing becomes more fluid the narrative weaves in and out, connecting pieces as it goes. Dates at the beginning of each new section are an important and helpful feature. Accounts are interspersed with data from an unknowable narrator, who watches how the two interact and determines their chances of succeeding.Įarly on, it is sometimes confusing to determine whose stories are being told. During the Siege of Carlisle to the year 2039, they are teenagers who have just met in school.Īll these stories are interwoven, and the book moves fluidly between incarnations.
In The Next Together, Katherine and Matthew are destined to be continually reborn to help circumvent major disasters throughout time-before they tragically lose each other again.Īlternating between scenes from each of their lives, Katherine and Matthew make appearances from separate classes while trying to stop a Scottish invasion they are a journalist and his assistant reporting from a war front, scientists who try to prevent the spread of a deadly bacteria.
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