Cosmic Love at the Multiverse Hair Salon

By: Annie Mare

Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw

A multiverse novel about two women who fall in love despite living in worlds that are five months apart, as they try to find a timeline that doesn’t end in disaster, in this debut novel by Annie Mare.

Tressa Fay Robeson has never been shy, which is how she’s made a name for herself as an in-demand hairstylist and social media star. So she can admit that spending her days at her hair salon and her nights with her tight-knit group of friends (and one grumpy cat) is not the kind of exciting life she’d hoped for.

When a misdirected text from a stranger leads to a flirty exchange, she surprises herself by suggesting an impulsive meetup. But the woman, Meryl, never shows. Tressa Fay brushes it off—until Meryl’s sister and friend show up at the salon demanding to know what’s going on. Because, you see, there’s no way Meryl could have texted her. Meryl has been missing for a month.

Tressa Fay and her tight-knit group of friends soon discover they aren’t dealing with a catfish, but a temporal paradox. As they come to terms with the idea of parallel universes, they realize how many times their paths have crossed like this before. But even as they understand the multiverse more and more, nothing keeps Meryl from vanishing.

As it draws closer to the moment of Meryl’s disappearance, there’s only one question left: Have they done enough to change the outcome, or have they done so much that none of them will make it past that fateful day in September?

lovely characters

I really enjoyed this love story and couldn't recommend it enough, it's just regular people trying to figure out an unusual situation. I personally did not have any problems following the storyline, you have to let go of there being a hard solution because there isn't one. No one is conveniently a physicist that can explain everything to you, it's a romance novel with some time shenanigans and the right amount of spice.

I didn’t enjoy this book

I left the story feeling confused, just wasn’t for me. The premise is fun, but the storyline was just confusing

Overall Pretty Disappointing

The idea was great, but it was poorly executed in my opinion. It felt like the stakes were high but simultaneously nonexistent. It also was very convoluted and unclear at times. I understand the concept is grand in and of itself, but again the execution just wasn't there. There were so many characters that were intertwined and I found the use of a double first name main character in the midst of all of that was unnecessarily complicated. Additionally, having a trans character named Guy also added unnecessary complications to the readability, or in this case ease of listening. It had such great potential but overall I was very underwhelmed by the story and execution. It felt like it just fell apart and there was no cohesion in a way that did not feel intentional nor important to the story. Overall, I think it was a great idea that was underdeveloped and poorly executed.