Novel & Cerita Because This Is My First Life Review

"It happened to me. Forty years ago, when I was thirty-one years old, I died. And I came back." The quiet in the room was complete. "I am not telling you this to create sympathy," he said. "I am not asking you to reconsider anything about what comes next. I understand what the next months look like for me." He paused. "I am telling you because you should know that you are not the only one. That you were never the only one. That there are others — some of whom you will find, some of whom may find you — and that what you choose to do with the second life matters in ways that extend beyond your own story."

But this—this moment—felt like something I wanted to imprint in whatever part of my magic had been keeping score all these years. “Do you ever think about… other lives?” he asked softly. “The ones Morwen hinted at. The ones where we didn’t get it right.” “Sometimes,” I said. “Less now.” He nodded. “The first time I told you I’d failed you in every life until this one, I thought… Maybe this was my one shot at not screwing it up,” he said. “Now I think… maybe every life was a lesson. For this one. For us.”

I sat across from him, gripping the edge of the table so tightly my knuckles whitened. “I wasn’t always like this,” I began slowly, my words shaky but deliberate. “The person you see now, this version of me, isn’t the first one. I’ve... I’ve lived this life before.” His brows drew together. “What do you mean?”

"Why does it have to be me?, why can't I just live a normal life like others?.. In my first life I was killed by my loved ones, and now history is about to repeat itself. Is there no other way out?” ‎The chamber trembled. Not from power. But from truth. ‎And the Goddess—For the first time—Did not answer immediately. ‎Because even she—Was no longer completely certain.

"You deserve to die! I could have hidden this filthy past of mine if it weren't for you! Now, everyone knows I've gone through a life of misery worse than a feral mutt! I would rather starve to death than let anyone else know about my past! "They all look down on me! This is your fault!"

I shook my head. “Shush. Just listen.” I grabbed his hands. “When the goddess was filling me with power, when it reached my stomach, I felt it. The flutter of life.” I struggled to find the words. “But it was familiar. One I had grown to know, one I had memorized.” His brow furrowed. “You aren’t making much sense. All babies move the same.” He tried to make sense of my jumbled words. I shook my head. “In my first life.” I think in that moment he started to understand, and his face turned a little sad.

Sofia *** I look around at my life, and I still can't believe that it's mine. When I stepped into this country for the first time all those many years ago, I could never have imagined that one day I would find love and family. That the dark cloud hanging over me would one day recede to let the light in again. Back then, my heart had no room for anything but the vengeance that beat within it. I wanted only to bear a son, a son who would one day avenge me of the wrongs done to me.

And to think it all started watching a funeral …. My death ended up being my entire life. And I wouldn’t change it for the world. THE END!!!! Thanks for reading!!

Kiara's POV For the first time in days, I didn't feel like shit when I woke up. It might sound like an exaggeration, but I felt exactly how flowers felt whenever they opened up to let in the sun's rays, which was weird, because I'd never had flashbacks where I was ever a flower in my past life. I wasn't even sure I had a past life. If by some chance I was living life all over again, or I'd reincarnated somehow, then I think it was safe to say that I sucked at doing life.

"It was never too late." Dane stared at her, his eyes searching hers. "What are you saying?" "I'm saying..." She took a shaky breath. "I'm saying that in my first life, I made a lot of mistakes. I trusted the wrong people. I pushed away the ones who actually cared about me. And I regret it. Every single day, I regret it."