yaxzx 's review for:

The Do-Over by Lynn Painter

3.75

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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: Yes

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While i really enjoyed this book, it was my least favourite of Lynn Painter's YA books. With that said it was still lpts of fun.

The characters were sweet, and I liked the concept, as I typically do with any time loop media, and I partocularly liked how

the loop ended as soon as she did all the most extreme crazy shit. I've always been interested in that idea of 'what would happen if the loop ends when your very specifically acting in a way where you think it won't'.

The romance between Emilie and Nick was pretty cute, and

I actually found it believable how they could fall so hard for each other in just one day (for Nick at least) jisy based on how Painter was able to wrote their DONC day together.

 

With all this said, the pacing wasn't quite as good as the other books by Painter that I've read and regardless of how cute the romance was, it wasn't as developed as I would have preferred and as it was in the other books, especially Better Than the Movies.

Also, I don't know if this was just like something wrong with the digital edition I read where they accidentally released an earlier draft or something, but holy crap the editing was abnormally poor. Not in like the, oh there was spelling or grammar errors, because I find at least one of those in pretty much every book I read, but in how there were just some blatantly bad continuity errors. I noticed a few throughout the book, but the one that comes to mind is now because I just read it within the last hour is that Emilie worries about her chemistry teacher hearing her phone go off when she gets a text and then on the next page is relieved that the chemistry teacher just came into the room to start teaching. I've honestly never seen issues like that in a traditionally published book and it really took me out of it.

And now that im thinking of it, because of those issues and just overall in terms of quality, it really felt like this book was just rushed our very quickly without proper care by either Painter or her editor/publisher for whatever reason.

Nonetheless, despite these issues, I did enjoy the book, as I feel like it would with anything from Painter. They're just fun, quick, cute reads.