e-book, 308 pages
Release Date: May 6, 2025
Published by: Scholastic Press
Read from: May 1-20, 2025
Stand-alone
Source: Netgalley (I received a free e-ARC from the publisher and Netgalley. This did nothing to influence my review.)
Content Warning: Death, Grief, Car Accident, Alcohol, Child Abuse, Suicidal Thoughts, Death of a Parent
For Readers Interested In: Romance, e-book, Sparkly Covers, Magical Realism, Meet Cutes, Mental Health (Grief), Most Anticipated, Netgalley, Racial/Ethnic Diversity (Black), YAA story about self-discovery, grief, and destiny that begs the question: How do you keep going when your world has stopped spinning?
When Sydney Michaels stops for breakfast in order to put off scholastic ruin a little longer, she never expected to—quite literally—bump into cute-boy stranger, Marcus Burke.
When Marcus invites her to have breakfast with him instead of going to class, she can’t ignore the urge to get to know him better—or the fact that this charming new acquaintance seems just as interested in her.
After a magical day together in their hometown of New York City, Sydney is finally willing to believe that maybe—just maybe—after years of loss and heartache, she’s finally reached the good part.
But when it comes time to say goodbye, as they linger in a crosswalk, something happens. An accident? Sydney isn’t sure—all she knows is that, after screeching tires, blinding headlights, and a moment of searing pain, she opens her eyes and is back in her bed. On September 24–the morning of her big exam—again.
*MY THOUGHTS*
I’m not usually a fan of books that have the groundhog day type nature because they usually get to be too boring, but this one wasn’t like that. This one had some some of the same scenes in the beginning, but it got more and more wild as the book went on.
Ok so the reason why I don’t usually like these type of time travel books is because of the repetitive nature. This time I was ready for it. It took me a while to read this because I had to read it with my eyeballs. And honestly I think that was a good thing. I was able to break it up and reading the repetitiveness didn’t bother me as much. I just read what I could before I fell asleep and that was enough. And it actually went well. But there was also the fact that the author kept a bunch of stuff out of the beginning of the story. Both of the characters were holding a bunch of guilt and I was glad that it gave me something to look forward to.
This actually also made me a little mad at the characters tho. Because we KNEW that there was something more that was going on with Marcus but Sydney had kept hers a seceret. And Marcus was so sweet! I was mad that she kept this from him but got mad at him. She knew that she hadn’t done everything that she could think of too. Idk, maybe it’s just me. I think I was just mad because she tried to play Marcus. And I don’t think he deserved it.
The romance was so cute. They loved each other and it was obvious. And in this short little time. I loved it so much because it was so much like the Jackie Lau book I just finished where they fell in love so quickly, but not really because they had been with each other for months at a time because of the days repeating. It was sweet but also sad. When they finally got the days sorted I was surprised tho. Thomas had me shocked with what she chose for them. I was a little afraid at first. Especially with the title lol But I didn’t have to. She made everything fit and it actually made for a more interesting ending.
This was a cute lil ol book. I got way more than I was expecting with it too. Definitely didn’t know that it was going to tear me apart like it did. I almost shed some tears. This one is going to get some poor unspecting reader like it almost got me and I love that for them. This is the third smash hit from Thomas and I can’t wait to see what else she has up her sleeve!
Overall, I give this
