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emilywemily6's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
This was a fun read with some characters that were clearly in high school. Lots of the interpersonal conflict could have been resolved easily if the characters had more emotional intelligence, but I guess that’s how 16 year olds truly are lol. It was fun to see how each Valentine’s Day differed, though as soon as the DONC started I knew it would be her last Valentine’s Day and it was painful to wait for all her poor decisions to catch up to her. Overall, a fun and fluffy YA romance where the characters are sometimes too immature and I wanted to bash my head into the wall for certain moments. Also, the mechanisms/reasoning behind the time loop was super stupid/not explained.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Grief, and Car accident
Minor: Mental illness and Sexual content
annadelreads's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
fast-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
3.5
“I remember everything about you, Em.”
I wish to travel back in time with this book to when I was younger and read this back then because I would for sure have loved this one. I just know I would. Nowadays, I just find this book okay and a good time investment for reading - would definitely recommend to the younger people. But because of my age and of course, maturity, I only just simply had fun reading it. It is a good "coming of age" book where she was forced to come out of her shell and just be free. Read this in two days so it was really fast paced and something that could for sure be binged in one day.
Nick was quotable in a lot of ways and for someone who was grieving, you can't fault him for being that way. Em was someone I had hated but learned to like. She was just hiding and not screaming what she wanted to do in life. She was just lonely and all she needed was a parent's love. You can't help understanding that she is like that because she grew up as such - as a divorced marriage baggage.
What I hate is the time-loop and in the end, just simply assuming it was because of Eric. I would have loved a more sensible explanation for how it ended and how it started.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship and Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying and Grief
cady_sass's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
fast-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
4.0
Kiki’s book club pick 📚
Groundhog Day but make mean girls! Thoroughly heartwarming and fun with fantastic banter, while not a wholly original idea it was definitely executed well and felt fresh.
I am, however, nothing if not consistent and it will cause my physical pain to not point out the heinous and unaddressed continuity issues. This is a story predicated on the fact that our protagonist is living the same day over and over again, as we’ve established this is not a new idea and we ALL know that the same things should be happening every day unless our MC specifically effects them. So then riddle me this, LYNN: (spoilers below)
1. If Em gets into a car accident every day she tries to take her van to school, which car (she actually says “my car”) is she sitting in in the school parking lot the day she honks at Josh and Macy?
2. Lisa makes chicken for Valentine’s Day dinner and gets mad that Em leaves to go to grandmas. Then another day Tom is making spaghetti and meatballs?
3. Why does Chris’s car get towed one day and no other days?
4. Why does Nick’s truck randomly not start one morning and then one afternoon?
5. Why does the content of the chemistry class change every day? Why are they not getting the same quiz or assignment every day? they’re constantly doing something different and it makes no sense
I understand that these things truly do not matter, okay, and mostly exist as plot devices to keep the story moving. I’m not deluded (entirely) but they do matter to ME and an editor should’ve caught it. Sure it’s YA but young adults aren’t idiots, this is blatant lazy storytelling IMO.
Anyways this was fun and I give it 4 strong stars even considering my list of grievances. high school me would’ve LOVED this but still would’ve been pissed about continuity (some things never change) so definitely recommend this to the YA fan in your life. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Groundhog Day but make mean girls! Thoroughly heartwarming and fun with fantastic banter, while not a wholly original idea it was definitely executed well and felt fresh.
I am, however, nothing if not consistent and it will cause my physical pain to not point out the heinous and unaddressed continuity issues. This is a story predicated on the fact that our protagonist is living the same day over and over again, as we’ve established this is not a new idea and we ALL know that the same things should be happening every day unless our MC specifically effects them. So then riddle me this, LYNN: (spoilers below)
1. If Em gets into a car accident every day she tries to take her van to school, which car (she actually says “my car”) is she sitting in in the school parking lot the day she honks at Josh and Macy?
2. Lisa makes chicken for Valentine’s Day dinner and gets mad that Em leaves to go to grandmas. Then another day Tom is making spaghetti and meatballs?
3. Why does Chris’s car get towed one day and no other days?
4. Why does Nick’s truck randomly not start one morning and then one afternoon?
5. Why does the content of the chemistry class change every day? Why are they not getting the same quiz or assignment every day? they’re constantly doing something different and it makes no sense
I understand that these things truly do not matter, okay, and mostly exist as plot devices to keep the story moving. I’m not deluded (entirely) but they do matter to ME and an editor should’ve caught it. Sure it’s YA but young adults aren’t idiots, this is blatant lazy storytelling IMO.
Anyways this was fun and I give it 4 strong stars even considering my list of grievances. high school me would’ve LOVED this but still would’ve been pissed about continuity (some things never change) so definitely recommend this to the YA fan in your life. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, Car accident, Gaslighting, and Abandonment
btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
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? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Car accident
Moderate: Infidelity
Minor: Bullying and Death
TW: divorced parentsannikaa's review against another edition
emotional
funny
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: Grief, Car accident, and Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying, Death, and Infidelity
Minor: Mental illness
inkdrinkers's review against another edition
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
I didn't like this. At all.
Emilie Hornby is ready for the perfect Valentine's Day ever, she's going to tell her boyfriend that she loves him, she's going to give him the best present in the entire world, and it's all going to go according to plan, exactly how she's had it written in her schedule for months. Except she discovers her boyfriend kissing his ex, gets told she's not actually been accepted in the competitive internship she thought she was, oh, and her dad is moving to Texas, leaving her adrift a year before she goes off to college. When the day loops, Emilie sees it as the perfect opportunity to fix everything that went wrong, but then it loops again, and again, and she realizes that the universe might be showing her an option she never considered - or planned - for herself.
So I bought a copy of this, and I'm seriously going to take it back to the store and return it. Was this book morally reprehensible? No, but also, I had the worst time reading this. I truly expected a lighthearted YA read and instead I felt like I got 300 pages of the most insufferable inner teen dialogue and the blandest writing. This was my first Lynn Painter book and I just feel nothing towards her writing or characters. I didn't enjoy Emilie and I certainly didn't like Nick. Maybe I had too much of an adult view on this book, but I couldn't wrap my head around it and that disappointed me so much.
I LOVE time travel and time loop media. One of my favorite movies is Happy Death Day for this reason. I love when characters are forced to confront their problems by the universe stepping in and telling them to get their shit together. Instead... Emilie got a tattoo? And forced some guy she barely knew to reveal his trauma to her? It all felt so incredibly heavy-handed that I put this book down multiple times, but knew I had to power through in order to fully wrap my head around a review. She didn't grow at all, instead, arguably, I'd say Emilie got worse throughout this entire book. She went from being so neurotic that she was intolerable to the other end of the spectrum where she didn't seem to care about anyone's feelings but her own. I feel like the time loop ended on her "worst" decisions for no reason other than to make the plot different than other time loop plotlines. (Because, you know, most of them have the character learning something about themselves)
I didn't find myself rooting for Emilie or Nick. I actually really hated the way the plotline with her parents ended. And overall I just feel like this was incredibly poorly written YA attempting to be relevant with ample music references and "relatable" memes. I'm not sure I would have even liked this had I read it as a teenager.
Anyways, I'm returning this to the store. And probably my other unread Lynn Painter book on my shelf.
Content warnings: grief, past trauma, abandonment, ample use of the word "fuck" by a bunch of kids, car crash/reckless driving, bullying, high school cheating plotline (that wasn't cheating but was also cheating? Wtf in the multiverse was that??)
Emilie Hornby is ready for the perfect Valentine's Day ever, she's going to tell her boyfriend that she loves him, she's going to give him the best present in the entire world, and it's all going to go according to plan, exactly how she's had it written in her schedule for months. Except she discovers her boyfriend kissing his ex, gets told she's not actually been accepted in the competitive internship she thought she was, oh, and her dad is moving to Texas, leaving her adrift a year before she goes off to college. When the day loops, Emilie sees it as the perfect opportunity to fix everything that went wrong, but then it loops again, and again, and she realizes that the universe might be showing her an option she never considered - or planned - for herself.
So I bought a copy of this, and I'm seriously going to take it back to the store and return it. Was this book morally reprehensible? No, but also, I had the worst time reading this. I truly expected a lighthearted YA read and instead I felt like I got 300 pages of the most insufferable inner teen dialogue and the blandest writing. This was my first Lynn Painter book and I just feel nothing towards her writing or characters. I didn't enjoy Emilie and I certainly didn't like Nick. Maybe I had too much of an adult view on this book, but I couldn't wrap my head around it and that disappointed me so much.
I LOVE time travel and time loop media. One of my favorite movies is Happy Death Day for this reason. I love when characters are forced to confront their problems by the universe stepping in and telling them to get their shit together. Instead... Emilie got a tattoo? And forced some guy she barely knew to reveal his trauma to her? It all felt so incredibly heavy-handed that I put this book down multiple times, but knew I had to power through in order to fully wrap my head around a review. She didn't grow at all, instead, arguably, I'd say Emilie got worse throughout this entire book. She went from being so neurotic that she was intolerable to the other end of the spectrum where she didn't seem to care about anyone's feelings but her own. I feel like the time loop ended on her "worst" decisions for no reason other than to make the plot different than other time loop plotlines. (Because, you know, most of them have the character learning something about themselves)
I didn't find myself rooting for Emilie or Nick. I actually really hated the way the plotline with her parents ended. And overall I just feel like this was incredibly poorly written YA attempting to be relevant with ample music references and "relatable" memes. I'm not sure I would have even liked this had I read it as a teenager.
Anyways, I'm returning this to the store. And probably my other unread Lynn Painter book on my shelf.
Content warnings: grief, past trauma, abandonment, ample use of the word "fuck" by a bunch of kids, car crash/reckless driving, bullying, high school cheating plotline (that wasn't cheating but was also cheating? Wtf in the multiverse was that??)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Car accident, and Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, and Infidelity
imstephtacular's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Car accident
Moderate: Cursing
Minor: Bullying, Death, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail
dianaschmidty's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Whenever someone “jokes” about how addictive Lynn Painter’s books are, they’re not joking! I have adored every single one of her books, and this one is no exception! I could not put this down! I read it in about six hours, which is the fastest I’ve read a book in a very long time.
This book was so adorable! Nick and Emilie’s banter was perfect in every iteration of Valentine’s Day. Their relationship overall was also really cute. I love how easy everything felt with him, especially on their DONC.
I also felt that her familial problems are very relatable to most people, myself included. I understand a world where that pressure and home life could make someone snap and act out, consequences or not.
I would have liked the ending to be a bit longer, since I feel like I didn’t fully understand some of Nick’s intentions, but overall, I loved this book!
Thank you so so so much to Simon & Schuester Books for Young Readers and Lynn Painter for sending me an ARC of this book!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Infidelity and Abandonment
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Grief, Car accident, and Gaslighting
Minor: Toxic relationship and Vomit
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