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I Think We've Been Here Before

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I Think We've Been Here Before

By: Suzy Krause
Narrated by: Erin Moon
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With the end of the world predicted, reality bends in an unexpectedly quirky novel about human connection and the meaning of life and death by the bestselling author of Sorry I Missed You.

Marlen and Hilda Jorgensen’s family has received two significant pieces of news: one, Marlen has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Two, a cosmic blast is set to render humanity extinct within a matter of months. It seems the coming Christmas on their Saskatchewan farm could be their last.

Preparing for the inevitable, they navigate the time they have left together. Marlen and Hilda have channeled their energy into improbably prophetic works of art. Hilda’s elderly father receives a longed-for visitor from his past. Hilda’s teenaged nephew goes missing, and his mother refuses to believe the world is ending. All the while, Hilda’s daughter struggles to find her way home from Berlin with the help of an oddly familiar stranger. For everyone, there’s an unsettling feeling that this unprecedented reality is something they remember.

As the planet holds its collective breath to see what happens next amid chaos, denial, acceptance, and hope, this one family determines to live every moment as if it’s their last. Because, well, it just might be.

©2024 by Suzy Krause. (P)2024 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Dystopian Family Life Magical Realism Emotionally Gripping
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“A story that will linger in the mind and memory of the reader long after the novel has been finished and set back upon the shelf…highly recommended.” Midwest Book Review

I Think We’ve Been Here Before is a rare gem of a book, the kind that instantly inspires you to sit up and pay attention, because something special is unfolding on the page. I don’t know what I loved most—the memorable characters, gripping premise, insightful prose, or nearly perfect ending. Suzy Krause writes with a magical touch.” —Jessica Strawser, USA Today bestselling author of The Last Caretaker

“I was utterly captivated and entirely entertained by Suzy Krause’s brilliantly original, surprisingly uplifting, witty, and suspenseful third novel. Filled with poignant observations about life from characters who are speeding toward the end of the world, I Think We’ve Been Here Before is about learning it’s never too late to discover what’s most important.” —Meredith Schorr, author of Someone Just Like You

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The voices that the voice actor makes almost makes this unbearable. The story maybe could’ve been good but it just really fell flat in a lot of places

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DNF - the world is ending? Answer your GD phone

Magical realism my foot. I would love to get to some magical realism. Some fun play with physics and theory and what ifs. But the very concept of this character being so besieged by her life that if she were to answer her mom's call when it's come to light that the world is coming to an imminent end and now - and not a minute later - is the time for her to "grow up and be her own woman"? As a grown ass woman, mother and daughter, no. If the defenders of this story is "she knows she's making a poor choice but it's the obvious poor choice that's the catalyst of the narrative!" I say that's lazy and like this character, a poor choice to upon which to build a plot.

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Great read!

This book has a lot of Interesting characters, and I enjoyed them all (and there are a lot of personalities here!) It’s a story of family, with major conflict-internal and external, past, present and the big terrible future. A little drag in some places but definitely worth read if you like light this genre.

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Uh...what was this about?

2 hours in, I gave up. The blurb says it's about Marlen and Hilde but mostly it seemed to be about this boring young woman named Nora and her obnoxious roommates. And 2 hours in, nothing had really happened. I WAS actually interested in the Marlen/Hilde part but after a initial chapter, the focus switched to endlessly boring stuff about young people in Berlin and how they feel about everything, including why Nora (a Canadian) never bothered to figure out what the equivalent of the 911 number is in Germany, because she was too stupid to ever ask. DNF. I'm returning it.

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