The Love of My Other Life by CJ Connolly

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The cover alone was enough to draw me into The Love of My Other Life. Welcome to the kick off of Zooloo’s Book Tours series. This book is available now and is CJ’s debut book. I especially love have debut books on tour and supporting new authors.


Imagine you woke up with the perfect life . . . But it wasn’t yours.

Today is Josie’s 36th birthday.

Josie is a single British woman living in a tiny walk-up in Brooklyn. She misses her family, but her radio show is starting to go places. And sure, she could be a dress size smaller, but no one cares what you look like on the radio. The guy she’s had a crush on for months is finally going to break up with his girlfriend. She hopes.

She’s zipping through traffic on her way to meet her friends for dinner at a SoHo restaurant. There’s a screech of brakes, Josie crashes her bike and her world goes black.

Then something extraordinary happens.

She wakes up in hospital. The handsome stranger by her side, holding her hand and telling her he loves her, is Rob. Her husband of two years. They live in a chic Manhattan penthouse. She works in real estate. And she’s thirty pounds slimmer than when she got on her bike that morning.

Josie has no idea how she got here. This new life is everything she ever wanted. But there’s one very important thing missing . . .

And now she has to decide: should she go back to her old single life in Brooklyn or stay with the love of her nearly perfect new life?

What would you do?

Review

This is not your typical body swap story. Josie is in a parallel universe and switched places with her parallel self. It's a very interesting concept. I enjoyed this book because of the authors writing style. Josie is very relatable has great family and friends. There are a few main differences between her lives and she has to decide which life she wants more. Even though Josie's lives are different, Josie herself is the same and fits well into both lives. I liked that because it shows the core Josie is the same. This is a lighter book, perfect to read when you are just looking to relax. The cover definitely catches your attention and think this is a great debut book. I look forward to reading more of CJ's work.

Author Info

CJ Connolly is a writer based in Vancouver, Canada, but hailing originally from the UK. By day, CJ has a career in communications and journalism, with two decades of editing, writing, and marketing experience in the Vancouver and London media and tech industries.

She has also been the host of a real estate-focused talk radio show and has been seen many times reporting on TV and speaking on conference panels.

In her free time – in addition to writing contemporary romance novels – CJ is passionate about singing, and is a member of a vocal group in Vancouver. Although she is happily child-free, the great loves of CJ's life are her young nephews Oscar and Felix, who live much too far away in Munich, Germany. 

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/cjconnollybooks/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cjconnollybooks

Website: https://cjconnollybooks.com

 


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  1. Zooloo's Book DiaryJuly 12, 2022 at 7:32 AM

    Thank you so much for your fab review and for kicking off the tour today x

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