The Serenity prayer says, “God grant me the Serenity to accept
the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to
know the difference.” But what if you didn't have to accept the things you couldn't
change? What if there was a way to fix the things you wanted change from your
past? Would know what would make your life better? Would you even like the new
life your change created? These are questions encountered by Seconds main
character Katie.
Katie is an amazing chef who is in the process of opening
her own restaurant while living in the upstairs apartment of the current
successful restaurant she runs. Then in the span of one night things start to
go sour with her new restaurants progress coming to a halt, her ex-boyfriend
showing up and one of her waitresses getting seriously hurt. That’s when a
mysterious young girl shows up and offers Katie a mushroom with simple
instructions: 1. Write down your mistake. 2. Ingest one mushroom. 3. Go to
sleep. 4. Wake anew. This opens Katie’s
world to the possibilities of fixing all of her missteps. Unfortunately Katie
learns that your missteps are just as important in making you the people you
are as your successes, and you can’t change these things without changing who
you are.
I really loved this book, just like I loved O’Malley’s
previous work with the Scott Pilgrim series. I felt that Scott Pilgrim spoke to
me as I was approaching full-fledged adulthood and now Seconds is speaks to me
as I progress through adulthood. I can relate to Katie as she is undertaking
new things in her career and I admit I occasionally look back at my life and
wonder, “What if?” but I also consider that I happy and I wouldn't want to change anything
that changes where I am now. It was a great read watching Katie come to the
same conclusion that I did, but you know I didn't have any magic mushrooms to
help me get there.
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