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A review by kaceyjoy
Throwback by Maurene Goo
emotional
hopeful
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? Yes
5.0
First book of the traveling book club for 2024 and I loved this fun back to the future meets mean girls story! Sam and Priscilla are such great characters! I love all the 90s nostalgia! Definitely pick this one up!
Edited to add full review:
This is a perfect combination of Back to the Future and The Joy Luck Club with a dash of Mean Girls! Part time travel fantasy, part family drama, part high school teen drama, but all heart!
I thoroughly enjoyed this blast from the past, as I'm only a few years younger than the mom in this book. Having been through high school in the nineties, being a lover of Back to the Future and of teen dramas (especially ones from the 90s) - I am the ideal audience for this book!
Sam is the daughter of Priscilla who is the daughter of a Korean immigrant. Priscilla and Sam don't see eye to eye when it comes to their goals. Priscilla wants Sam to shape up and fit in with the country club elite. Sam wants Priscilla to chill out and be more easy going like her Halmoni, but Priscilla has a very different relationship with her mother than what Sam sees.
After a huge fight between this mother and daughter - in the parking lot of a mall no less - Sam finds herself taking a ride share to school, but Throwback Rides is not your average ride share! After Marge, the nosiest driver ever, drops Sam off at school, she soon realizes she's traveled from 2025 to 1995! Now the "new girl" in school, Sam bumps into one of the most popular girls in school - her mother! Can they start to understand where each other's coming from and even become friends? Can Sam solve her time travel dilemma and get back to the future?! All in time for homecoming?!
Definitely check this one out if you love Back to the Future, coming of age stories with a cute romance plot, and an all around heart warming multi generational tale.
Edited to add full review:
This is a perfect combination of Back to the Future and The Joy Luck Club with a dash of Mean Girls! Part time travel fantasy, part family drama, part high school teen drama, but all heart!
I thoroughly enjoyed this blast from the past, as I'm only a few years younger than the mom in this book. Having been through high school in the nineties, being a lover of Back to the Future and of teen dramas (especially ones from the 90s) - I am the ideal audience for this book!
Sam is the daughter of Priscilla who is the daughter of a Korean immigrant. Priscilla and Sam don't see eye to eye when it comes to their goals. Priscilla wants Sam to shape up and fit in with the country club elite. Sam wants Priscilla to chill out and be more easy going like her Halmoni, but Priscilla has a very different relationship with her mother than what Sam sees.
After a huge fight between this mother and daughter - in the parking lot of a mall no less - Sam finds herself taking a ride share to school, but Throwback Rides is not your average ride share! After Marge, the nosiest driver ever, drops Sam off at school, she soon realizes she's traveled from 2025 to 1995! Now the "new girl" in school, Sam bumps into one of the most popular girls in school - her mother! Can they start to understand where each other's coming from and even become friends? Can Sam solve her time travel dilemma and get back to the future?! All in time for homecoming?!
Definitely check this one out if you love Back to the Future, coming of age stories with a cute romance plot, and an all around heart warming multi generational tale.