Anytime I see a new book pop up with a time travel theme, I'm automatically excited to read it. I'm a bit obsessed with time travel, and frankly, there isn't enough out there to whet my voracious appetite for it. Let me start off by saying that Cassandra in Reverse started off with a bang. The Cassandra Complex follows a forensic police scientist who is having the worst day of her life. Her apartment is broken into, the mice at the laboratory she works at are blown up, and her mentor and former lover is kidnapped. The Cassandra Complex is a reference to the feeling of knowing disaster is imminent, yet you can't stop it. In this book, set about 50 years in the future, the bio warfare and extremely high population seem to be leading the world into collapse.

Self discovery and awareness become the byproduct for Cassandra as she tries to fix her responses to Will in their dating events. It’s half way through that she looks outside herself to discover the other side and it’s not just about her and Will anymore. Other relationships must come into play. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn’t (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug).

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The mystery woman, Diana, set the story on a whole new course that I was not expecting. After Cassandra's reconciliation with her, the storyline with Will is completely altered. At first, I was extremely annoyed. After all, wasn't this book partially a romance? Now it wasn't feeling like one so much. Then the more I thought about it, I came to the conclusion that maybe there was a reason she and Will keep having issues in every alternate reality she creates. As sweet as he is, perhaps they really are too different, and she was wrong about fate. She can keep altering it, but in the end, things will eventually realign in the way they were meant to go. Different journey, same results. So I adjusted my thinking about her new projected ending. This is all about her deciding not to time travel anymore because she finally accepts herself for who she is, differences and all. Except...she starts making mistakes again with Diana, time traveling again to fix it (after declaring that she won't anymore), and then deciding to contradict everything she claimed to have learned and start COMPLETELY over again. I don’t know. I have been debating this book since I started to read it. I really, really wanted to like it.

Grove, Andy (August 9, 1998). "Academy of Management, Annual Meeting". Intel Keynote Transcript. Intel . Retrieved February 6, 2023. They have to bring you bad news and be Cassandras against the senior management, against the fear of management of repercussions.This is a truly original novel, a war cry for you to be you and for me to be me. I loved it’ – Laura Jane Williams Spy thrillers; political thrillers; techno-thrillers; "plain old" thrillers... now we have a bio-thriller, a detective novel (in the near future, so it's also sort of SF) that's a race to discover who destroyed an out-dated experiment in sociobiology and kidnapped its main critic. There is, of course, a secret or two to be discovered; what they are and who gets to them first is what moves things along.

Cassandra Dankworth is a character as unique as she is endearing ... An absolute gem of a novel' Margarita Monitmore A brilliantly clever, twisty story that dazzles with its wit whilst touching our hearts' SARAH HAYWOODBut, part of liking a book, is liking its main character, and well, that wasn’t likely to happen for me. this book had a lot of greek mythology references and analogies, which completely went over my head because my knowledge of green mythology is at approximately a zero. so unfortunately that didn’t work well for me, but i think it definitely could for someone who’s interested in that!

as i sit on my swivel chair and search for the emotions i’m supposed to feel now but can’t seem to find, i can’t help wondering: am i a monster? and—if so—was i born or was i made?” Deeply human, wildly original, and gut-warmingly funny. Holly Smale is a GENIUS." - Emma Jane Unsworth Instantly addictive and totally electric ... Holly Smale's writing is a breath of fresh air." - Beth Reekles

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But it's not as easy to control time as she first thinks and through a series of time re-runs we discover Cassandra's history, her odd personality traits and who the woman she is trying to avoid at all costs is. But overall, I'm still rounding up my 3.5 stars to 4 for its interesting concept and likable character. In a 1988 study, Jungian analyst Laurie Layton Schapira explored what she called the "Cassandra complex" in the lives of two of her analysands. [5] But that book has the same problem this one does: it's a collection of incredible ideas and questions and setting development bound by a not-very-good thriller plot. The idea of time travelling seems that it would be stressful, trying to remember what you had said or done, so as not to confuse the others around you. It did make for some amusing and embarrassing moments though.