This Time Tomorrow - Emma Straub

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Title: This Time Tomorrow
Author: Emma Straub
Genre: Sci-fi, time-travel, chick-lit
Rating: 3/5
# pages: 320
Date read: July, 2022

On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing. When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. But it isn't just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush, it's her dad: the vital, charming, 40-something version of her father with whom she is reunited. Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?


I usually love books that involve time-travel, so it seemed like this one would be right up my aisle. And I did enjoy it, it just didn't blow me away the way I had expected it to. It was a pleasant read, and I definitely don't regret having used my precious reading time on it, but it also left me complete unmoved. I guess somehow the stakes were too low? Not sure.

I definitely preferred reading about "back then" to reading about "now" though. I loved seeing Alice interact with her dad, and that she and Sam had always been ride and die friends :-)

Comments

I loved this...

[chicating]

Maybe I'm just feeling my age(A bit older than Alice's)
Would agree than Leonard and Alice were the biggest relationship.