Book Review - I Know How This Ends by Holly Smale

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Title: I Know How This Ends

Author: Holly Smale

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Penguin

Publication Date: 14th August 2025

Rating: 5 Stars

If you could see your future, how would you live now?

Margot Wayward is in manically gleeful self-destruct mode. Following the implosion of a ten-year relationship, she’s wilfully derailing her successful career, joyfully taking down men on dating apps, and living in total chaos.

Until one day, when Margot has a vision of herself with a man she’s never met before. She doesn’t believe in fate. But when Margot meets single-dad Henry, the vision comes true: exactly as she’d foreseen it.

As her future continues to reveal itself, a glimpse at a time, Margot realises she knows exactly what’s going to happen, and when. And there’s nothing she can do to change any of it.

So Margot has to decide how to live, how to love again, and how to be herself… Because if you can’t change your destiny, how on earth do you live your present?

What a unique idea this is.  I absolutely loved it.  I was very happy to suspend reality while Margot starts having visions of what appear to be her future. 

And then as a result of these visions, she starts making decisions to try to get this to become a reality. Although she's unsure whether things would happen regardless.  

And even before that we have Margot attempting to self destruct, as we get to know her recent dating history, and how badly she was treated by her ex. There are so many decisions that seem to be really bad from Margot, it makes a great change when she  starts trying to trust these visions. 

Margot is a meteorologist, and is used to forecasting the weather, but her career starts to take some rather interesting turns. There is also a message in this to all influencers to check the validity of a product and company before you start promoting it. 

I loved the way Margot thinks, and was amused by her at the same time. I also enjoyed getting to know Henry. 

I found this was an absorbing book to read that I kept needing to pick up and that I read it incredibly quickly. I was just enjoying it so much 

Once again another fabulous book from Holly Smale.

Thank you to Penguin and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.