I had heard so many things about this book since I started watching booktube videos I had to read this. I definitely enjoyed reading it, it was really fun and enjoyable. I really needed some contemporary read to get back into reading because I was in a kind of slump.

 

I am used to reading books about teenagers and it was refreshing to have older main characters. I also liked the fact that Georgia, the main characters, is a TV writer, it is not that common in books and it was great to learn more about this lifestyle. 

 

The plot was not the most important part of the book, not a lot happen, but you get a lot of flashbacks and you learn more about the past of the characters. I think it was really well done.

 

If you like romance, but not cheesy romance, I totally recommend reading this. If you are in a reading slump and don't know what to do, it could help you

I was torn between rating this 3 and 4 stars, but finally settled on 4 because I think my actual rating would be about 3.75/5 stars.

I've read Fangirl, Eleanor & Park, and Carry On, and loved all three of them, so I was really looking forward to reading this one. But...I didn't love it quite as much as the other three. I wanted to, and maybe I would have if I'd read it at another time (I'm in a weird book-funk right now). I didn't dislike it at all, and I did enjoy it, just not as much as I hoped I would.

I'm just going to put all this in the spoiler tag, A) because spoilers? maybe? and B) it's just me babbling. This book almost made me cry a few times because I related to certain things. Like, Georgie made an observation about herself and how she always went for a certain type of guy, and I was like that (although not just with guys). My husband reminded me a little of Neal, too, so reading about their marital difficulties was uncomfortable because I could kind of imagine it. Even though I'm the parent staying home, I know what it feels like to think about your family and realize your life would be completely upended without them, but their life would pretty much be the same. Just...ugh. All of Rainbow's books make me emotional, and this was no exception. I think I went into it expecting something a little lighter (time travel-y phone calls to your then boyfriend/now husband, even in the face of a marriage that seems to be falling apart, just seemed like a good time), and wasn't prepared for the feels.

I'd totally recommend this one, but not more than her YA.

There can't be all that many novels about women TV writers trying to move up to their own show and being a show-runner, so it's odd that I read two so close to each other. This one is also a bit of magical realism. And it was adorable. I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't a story about a marriage on the rocks, let alone one about a phone from the twilight zone that enables the heroine to call her husband in the past. I love that the fantastic element is acknowledged to be weird, but that it isn't ever explained. Anyway, the marriage and the stresses therein felt real, as well as the desire to reconnect and make things better.


Library copy

 

 

There can't be all that many novels about women TV writers trying to move up to their own show and being a show-runner, so it's odd that I read two so close to each other. This one is also a bit of magical realism. And it was adorable. I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't a story about a marriage on the rocks, let alone one about a phone from the twilight zone that enables the heroine to call her husband in the past. I love that the fantastic element is acknowledged to be weird, but that it isn't ever explained. Anyway, the marriage and the stresses therein felt real, as well as the desire to reconnect and make things better.

 

Library copy

Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it's been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply-but that almost seems beside the point now.

Maybe that was always beside the point.

 

Two days before they're supposed to visit Neal's family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can't go. She's a TV writer, and something's come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her-Neal is always a little upset with Georgie-but she doesn't expect to him to pack up the kids and go without her.

 

When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she's finally done it. If she's ruined everything.

 

That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It's not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she's been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts. . . .

 

Is that what she's supposed to do?

 

Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?