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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
I wrote a long review about why this book was frustrating to me, and then the app crashed and erased my review. So,
I loved Cassandra and I loved this book! I think I would want to be friends with Cassandra... on any of these days!
4.25 ⭐️
I really liked this story! I was relieved with the ending and felt like Cassandra learned the lessons she needed to learn to grow as a person.
I really liked this story! I was relieved with the ending and felt like Cassandra learned the lessons she needed to learn to grow as a person.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
tense
fast-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
Unexpected theme that I thoroughly loved!
DNF. Got only about 60% of the way through before I called it quits :( I wanted to like this so badly, but two stars because I couldn’t force myself through it.
I love a sci-fi time travel + romance but idk that I would call this that? We are given no explanation for Cass’s abilities, and the first 20-30% of the book you are left feeling very confused about what is even going on. Why can she only go back 4 months? What is so important about Will? Seems like a nice guy and all but Cassandra finds that the timeline keeps coming back to their original time path. so if they are gunna break up anyway, what’s the point of all this? I do kinda want to know what happens with this whole Will situation but I am not gunna force myself to read the rest of this just to find out
I love a sci-fi time travel + romance but idk that I would call this that? We are given no explanation for Cass’s abilities, and the first 20-30% of the book you are left feeling very confused about what is even going on. Why can she only go back 4 months? What is so important about Will? Seems like a nice guy and all but Cassandra finds that the timeline keeps coming back to their original time path. so if they are gunna break up anyway, what’s the point of all this? I do kinda want to know what happens with this whole Will situation but I am not gunna force myself to read the rest of this just to find out
Entertaining and insightful
“Because if things can be broken, then things can be changed; and if things can be changed, then it stands to good and logical reason that they can also be fixed.”
Cassandra Penelope Dankworth has been given the gift if time traveling so that she can go back and “fix” some of her behaviors and actions in order to save her blossoming love relationship, her job, and her living arrangement. In a beautiful process of self-discovery, she will realize that she does not need to be fixed and will find the right place and people to surround herself with.
“That’s the thing I’ve never really understood about emotions. We’re given unhelpful words for them -sad, happy, angry, scared, disgusted- but they are not accurate and never seems to be anywhere near enough of them. How could there be? Emotions aren’t binary or finite: they change, swift, run into each other like colored water. They are layered, three-dimensional and twisted; they don’t arrive in order, one by one, labeled neatly. They lie on top of each other, twisting like kaleidoscopes, like prisms, like spinning bird feathers lit with their own iridescence.”
I love books that are engaging and entertaining , but also that they teach me something new and make me curious about a topic. This book accomplished both things for me. I enjoyed getting to meet Cassandra, laughed outloud at times and enjoyed her witty dialogues.
I also learned from her how some neurodivergent people experience and understand the world. It made me rethink situations I have experienced with neurodivergent people in the past and learn how I could have been more empathetic. I am a little bit better equipped for those situations in the future. And that in itself is a big win for me.
As a Greek mythology nerd myself, I enjoyed the use of mythical stories and characters to draw similarities and give philosophical breaks to the story narrative.
In all, I enjoyed this book and I am grateful for its teachings.
“Because if things can be broken, then things can be changed; and if things can be changed, then it stands to good and logical reason that they can also be fixed.”
Cassandra Penelope Dankworth has been given the gift if time traveling so that she can go back and “fix” some of her behaviors and actions in order to save her blossoming love relationship, her job, and her living arrangement. In a beautiful process of self-discovery, she will realize that she does not need to be fixed and will find the right place and people to surround herself with.
“That’s the thing I’ve never really understood about emotions. We’re given unhelpful words for them -sad, happy, angry, scared, disgusted- but they are not accurate and never seems to be anywhere near enough of them. How could there be? Emotions aren’t binary or finite: they change, swift, run into each other like colored water. They are layered, three-dimensional and twisted; they don’t arrive in order, one by one, labeled neatly. They lie on top of each other, twisting like kaleidoscopes, like prisms, like spinning bird feathers lit with their own iridescence.”
I love books that are engaging and entertaining , but also that they teach me something new and make me curious about a topic. This book accomplished both things for me. I enjoyed getting to meet Cassandra, laughed outloud at times and enjoyed her witty dialogues.
I also learned from her how some neurodivergent people experience and understand the world. It made me rethink situations I have experienced with neurodivergent people in the past and learn how I could have been more empathetic. I am a little bit better equipped for those situations in the future. And that in itself is a big win for me.
As a Greek mythology nerd myself, I enjoyed the use of mythical stories and characters to draw similarities and give philosophical breaks to the story narrative.
In all, I enjoyed this book and I am grateful for its teachings.
3.5 stars, v much enjoyed! only thing i thought was kind of off was the part at the end where she finds out she’s austistic from a diagnosis her mom got-i feel like the book didn’t really need an explicit “by the way she’s autistic!” moment, since it’s fairly apparent from the rest of the book