Release Date: January 26th 2016
Pages: 305
Age Range: Young Adult
Mara James has always been a perfectionist with a plan. But despite years of overachieving at her elite school, Mara didn't plan on having a total meltdown during her calculus exam. Like a rip-up-the-test-and-walk-out kind of meltdown. And she didn't plan on a video of it going viral. And she definitely didn't plan on never wanting to show her face again.
Mara knows she should go back, but suddenly she doesn't know why she's been overachieving all these years. Impulsively, she tells her mom she wants to go live with her estranged dad in Tahoe. Maybe in a place like Tahoe, where people go to get away from everyday life, and with a dad like Trick McHale, a ski bum avoiding the real world, Mara can figure things out.
Only Tahoe is nothing like she thought. There are awesome new friends and hot boys and a chance to finally get to know Trick, but there are also still massive amounts of schoolwork. Can Mara stopping planning long enough to see the life that's happening right now?
I enjoyed reading Kim Culbertson previous book Catch A Falling Star, so I had quite high expectations for her next novel The Possibility of Now. Did it live up my expectations? Not really. The plot and the characters didn't start of to be very interesting, which didn't change during the book. I still have no clue about Mara, she came of quite weird and I didn't like her. She goes to Tahoe after an 'episode'' at school, but I wonder what the overall point was of living with her dad. As a reader I didn't found her improving or progressing or going anything specific-ly forward. She just get's some new friends and that's it, maybe a little romance was coming up within this circle, but after a week of having read this book I already forgotten it, as it didn't make much impression. I guess this was just not my cup of tea..
