Review: See You Yesterday

 I told myself I wouldn't read a standalone until a complete day was over. I told myself so many damn times that I wouldn't, but then I gave in because the other book "The Kingdom of Copper" is chonky af. Like 600-ish pages, my brain simply is like 'I refuse to process that LMAO'. Ugh, hopefully I'll get through that book soon.

Barrett Bloom is hoping college will be a fresh start after a messy high school experience. But when school begins on September 21st, everything goes wrong. She’s humiliated by the know-it-all in her physics class, she botches her interview for the college paper, and at a party that night, she accidentally sets a frat on fire. She panics and flees, and when she realizes her roommate locked her out of their dorm, she falls asleep in the common room.

The next morning, Barrett’s perplexed to find herself back in her dorm room bed, no longer smelling of ashes and crushed dreams. It’s September 21st. Again. And after a confrontation with Miles, the guy from Physics 101, she learns she’s not alone—he’s been trapped for months.

When her attempts to fix her timeline fail, she agrees to work with Miles to find a way out. Soon they’re exploring the mysterious underbelly of the university and going on wild, romantic adventures. As they start falling for each other, they face the universe’s biggest unanswered question yet: what happens to their relationship if they finally make it to tomorrow?

QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW:  4.2/5, I REALLY LIKE THE CONCEPT OF THE TIME LOOP, SOUNDS AWESOME.

Possible Trigger Tags:

1. Bullying

2. Mentions of alcohol abuse

WHAT DID I FEEL ABOUT THE  BOOK'S: 

1. Writing Quality: I really like the writing quality, it's in first person narration which usually is good since it gives me an impact inside the character's mind. But to be honest, nothing good actually happens until you're well into the second chapter. The first chapter does kind of seem long and boring especially since so many events happen on the first day. I've seen a lot of books and essays where the whole first day goes wrong, but there is always something interesting in them. It seemed like I knew the day was gonna go wrong but that was it, I didn't wanna know more about it. But it really gets better from the second day and it's really awesome to see the loop play over and over again.

2. Character Development: I really love the Jewish rep in the book because other than Rachel Lynn Solomon's, there's only one book that I've seen that has proper Jewish rep [ As If On Cue by Marisa Kanter ], and not just for show, like proper rep giving an insight into the culture and all, though it isn't as prominent as Solomon's other books.

Do you think I should do a general outline of the characters or should I stick to the method of saying everything what I think about each and every particular relevant character? Lemme know in the comments below.

Barrett: Girl's a mess. And I relate to that. totally. I'm a mess and I'm pretty sure I will continue to be a mess and a menace to society. And she's pretty much hating everything around her that's happening and she's just trying to live her life normally in college but everything else is fucking it up. Y'all everything fucks up my day some way or the other most of the time. The day I get lucky, that's the most sus. She's this chaotic person and she's really not afraid to actually "all-you-can-eat" all -you-can-eat pasta, and seriously, if my future college has something like that, you bet I'm taking some of that shit home.

Miles: He comes off as a really hot asshole to me. Like the most common trope of "he's so hot and such an asshole that I wanna fuck him". But I do kind of get him, if I was stuck in a time loop for about like 60+ days I'd have lost my fucking mind. He seems like this tough guy and he also attempts to carry himself around like that but in reality he's such a soft guy it's adorable. Please, he asks for consent when he's kissing her or when they're having sex and it's so so awesome. Like consent is literally the sexiest thing to ever exist and this man just asks for it and it's so satisfying. And the way he worships her, bruh, I want someone to worship me that way. 

3. Couldn't put it down- Ness: 7/10. I finished this book within 90 mins. Well to be honest it would have taken me longer if I wasn't reading it at midnight and had to go to sleep by 1:30 am ish.  Really, I had divided how many pages I could read in a minute and my maximum record by far has been 5 pages per minute. And that's like really fast. Really.

4.  Plot: The cover kind of reminded me of  Today Tonight Tomorrow .I really love the concept of the time loop. The last time I actually saw something in a time loop was when I was watching that show called "Little Busters", I think it was something of a sort of a second season, was it the second season though? I really do not remember. Probably the third season.  But yeah, that was the only thing in fiction that had a time loop. And once in The Aurora Cycle . Maybe those were all the time loop references I'd seen. So yeah, it was really interesting to see it happening. There was a lot of talk about the multiverse, which was one of the topics I'd researched on for senior year physics project. The fact that these guys were actually having the time of their lives in the loop was so fun to watch. 

OVERALL, A CUTE READ, this one's definitely on the top of the list of my detox reads.