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shinypurplepants's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Summary:
Alice's 40th year is not going as planned. Sure, she's mostly happy. Her job is comfortable and her friends are steadfast. Her father, her true rock for the last forty years, is not doing so hot. His health is failing and Alice is dreading their final goodbye.
One day, Alice finds herself walking up in her own body on her 16th birthday. Her friends are there and so is her father, looking youthful and happy!
Review:
A wonderful speculative tale about time travel and love. Those is not a romance but instead a story about parental love and love between friends. It is also a story about grieving and regret so possible tearjerker for some readers!
Recommended for readers that also enjoyed: "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig and "Oona Out of Order" by Margarita Montimore.
Alice's 40th year is not going as planned. Sure, she's mostly happy. Her job is comfortable and her friends are steadfast. Her father, her true rock for the last forty years, is not doing so hot. His health is failing and Alice is dreading their final goodbye.
One day, Alice finds herself walking up in her own body on her 16th birthday. Her friends are there and so is her father, looking youthful and happy!
Review:
A wonderful speculative tale about time travel and love. Those is not a romance but instead a story about parental love and love between friends. It is also a story about grieving and regret so possible tearjerker for some readers!
Recommended for readers that also enjoyed: "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig and "Oona Out of Order" by Margarita Montimore.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent and Alcohol
Minor: Vomit
emilydamron's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent
jenga049's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent
jessreadreceipts's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, and Grief
amanda_mh's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
It was reflective and made me contemplate the bigger picture in life.
I think this quote truly encompasses the book “Any story could be a comedy, or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic, how the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.”
- Emma Straub (p.306)
I think this quote truly encompasses the book “Any story could be a comedy, or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic, how the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.”
- Emma Straub (p.306)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Medical content, Death of parent, and Grief
lovetlr's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent
carriepond's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.75
At the opening of This Time Tomorrow, Alice Stern is about to turn forty. She feels fine enough about how life's turned out so far: she's still close with her best friend since high school, Sam, though get-togethers are rarer since Sam moved to New Jersey and started a family; she works at the private school she attended as a kid and gets along well with her co-workers; and though her romantic life doesn't blow her away, she feels content enough with it. All is just fine, except that her father, Leonard, who solo parented her after her mother left when she was six, is dying and Alice knows that his death will send her reeling. After a drunken fortieth birthday celebration, Alice wanders to her childhood home and passes out in the garden shed. When she wakes to find herself in her childhood bedroom on the morning of her sixteenth birthday, she is most amazed to see her father-- forty-nine, youthful and vibrant. Alice decides that she must take advantage of the opportunity: to spend time appreciating her dad and to try to set in motion changes that will save him-- eat healthier, quit smoking, and exercise. As Alice struggles to understand the implications of her new reality and unravel the mystery of what transported her back in time, she mediates on who she is and how she got there, her love and grief for her father, and how to move forward if she can always go back.
I have definitely thought about how great it could be to travel back to a random day in my childhood, to experience the security and certainty of a less encumbered time. And, since becoming a mom, I already have also wished to revisit, just for a day, when my daughter was a newborn, when she was just starting to walk, etc. In This Time Tomorrow, we watch this opportunity play out, and the result is just lovely. It was a compelling story with authentic characters and was such a love letter about the bond between a parent and child. It made me cry as a child to a parent; it made me cry as a parent to a child. You could feel the earnestness and genuineness with every page, and I loved how Straub ended the novel; open-ended, bittersweet but hopeful.
I have definitely thought about how great it could be to travel back to a random day in my childhood, to experience the security and certainty of a less encumbered time. And, since becoming a mom, I already have also wished to revisit, just for a day, when my daughter was a newborn, when she was just starting to walk, etc. In This Time Tomorrow, we watch this opportunity play out, and the result is just lovely. It was a compelling story with authentic characters and was such a love letter about the bond between a parent and child. It made me cry as a child to a parent; it made me cry as a parent to a child. You could feel the earnestness and genuineness with every page, and I loved how Straub ended the novel; open-ended, bittersweet but hopeful.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent
gizmorox's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent
readingrandbow's review against another edition
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death of parent
meggenlee's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
This book, with its seemingly hokey overdone plot line, came as a surprise to me. I expected a light Jenna Rink, 13 going on 30 style story and got an unexpectedly thought-provoking read. In a time of life where I am navigating both aging parents and growing children, this book gave me some much valued perspective on both.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent