snipinfool 's review for:

Woke Up Like This: A Novel by Amy Lea

4.0

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

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Charlotte “Char” Wu was a planner. She had plans for what she wanted to accomplish for all four years of high school. Senior Prom was one of the last items on her list and she was going to make sure it was amazing. She was disappointed her theme suggestion wasn’t chosen by her fellow student council members. Char felt it was especially painful that they chose J. T. Renner’s idea. He was her nemesis and had been a thorn in her side since freshmen year. J.T. and Char met early one morning to start decorating the prom space. Others were supposed to show up also, but as usual, they were late. While stretching from a tall ladder to reach for something in J. T.’s hands, Char fell and landed on him. When she woke up, she was not the same Char who just fell from the ladder. She soon realized she was now thirty and engaged to marry J. T., who had also traveled through time with her.

This was a very cute version of 13 Going on 30. Understandably, it took Char a while to get her head around marrying her frenemy. J. T., while confused, seemed to have less trouble with that development. Unknown to Char, he had a crush on her since freshman year. The secondary characters played their parts well within the story. Their actions made sense for the times (either timeline) they were in the story. The book also had a side plot about friends who were important at one time but later fell out of one’s life. I enjoyed reading this book and loved that the main characters found each other in the end.