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REVIEW: A Second Chance for Yesterday by R A Sinn



Genre: Science Fiction | Romance | LGBTQ+ Fiction

Release Date: Expected 29th August 2023

Publisher: Rebellion | Solaris 

Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all our most embarrassing moments. She’s been working non-stop on the next rollout, even blowing off her boyfriend, her best friend and her family to make SavePoint 2.0. But when she hits go on the test-run, she wakes up the next day only to discover it's yesterday. She's falling backwards in time, one day at a time.

As things spiral out of control, a long-lost friend from college reappears in her life claiming they know how to save her. Airin is charming and mysterious, and somehow knows Nev intimately well. Desperate and intrigued, Nev takes a leap of faith. A friendship born of fear slowly becomes a bond of deepest trust, and possibly love. With time running out, and the whole world of SavePoint users at stake, Nev must learn what it will take to set things right, and what it will cost.

"I mean, it's less about determining your fate in the cosmos, and more about recognising that you're a part of the cosmos. Just this little, tiny conscious fragment of totality, infinitesimally small but infinitely important."

A wickedly clever high-stakes adventure through time and space — A Second Chance For Yesterday was electrifying and exciting but also triumphantly human and brimming with heart.

This strange new world we explore was mesmerising — similar enough to ours for a faint sense of familiarity but twisted in the most alienating of ways, with futuristic technology that we may only dream of and advancements that take humanity to another level of being, but also a new level of technological reliance and monitoring. The world building was masterfully vivid and highly descriptive — a perfectly polished utopia or a dystopian nightmare depending on where you’re looking from.

I adored Neveah; she was bold, smart but deeply caring. She was calculated and controlled so when everything spiralled, her own emotions and confusion were the real driving forces of this story as she tried to balance her fear with her duty to the world. As for Airin, I instantly fell in love with this brilliantly clever, mysterious hacker — and It was absolutely refreshing to have an authentic NB love interest that didn’t feel like an afterthought. As they journey through their timelines, we uncover more not only about the dangers they’re racing to prevent, but about her personal demons that have followed her throughout history and into her future.

Her storytelling was like her work — it was smooth, clean, sterile and fast, but it still had that human element despite the clinical coldness that we initial feel in her narration. She left some questions behind, a few strands left still hanging -  which both frustrated the hell out me and also made me smile as I thought about the possibilities.

This was a spellbinding sci-Fi, with the perfect mix of tension and tragedy balanced with such deep humanity and heart that it left a part of it with me long after the last page.


⭐⭐⭐⭐


I was gifted an advanced reviewers copy of this title in return for an honest review,

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