When I saw this book involved time traveling, I decided to pick it up. Thanks, NetGalley and Zando Young Readers for an eARC of the book. I really enjoyed it. Even met and got it signed by the author.
Priscilla is first-generation Korean American, a former high school cheerleader who expects her daughter Sam to want the same all-American nightmare. Meanwhile, Sam is a girl of the times who has no energy for clichéd high school aspirations. After a huge blowup, Sam’s desperate to get away from her mom, but instead finds herself thrown back. To her shock, a ride share takes her to the autumn of 1995…alongside a 17-year-old Priscilla. Now, Sam must deal with outdated tech, regressive ’90s attitudes, and her growing feelings for sweet, mysterious football player Jamie (when she has a boyfriend back home). With the clock ticking, Sam must figure out how to fix things with Priscilla or risk being trapped forever. Sam’s blast to the past has her questioning everything.
This book gave me ‘Back to the Future’ vibes, but instead of Sam needing to get her parents together, she must help her mom win homecoming queen to repair the relationship between her mother and grandmother. This also gives her a chance to understand her mother better. It would be weird for any present-day girl to go back in time to when their mother was a teen. But Maurene writes it so well.
I really don’t have anything that stands out that I can say ‘I didn’t like’. I even loved her budding romance with Jamie and was thrown for a loop when I learned his secret (no, not telling). It excited me even more when I learned, and I wanted to finish reading it so I could find out who Sam gets together with at the end of the book.
Fans of ‘Back to the Future’, time traveling romances, rom coms, you should pick up this book
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