this BOOK!!!
i love the valentine's themes so much, and i am so happy that i reread it and annotated it. i just love this story so much, and it is just so cute.

CHARACTERS ♡
emilie hornby: she is... interesting. she kind of gives "i am not like other girls" vibes, nad that is an overrated trope in my opinion. honestly, emilie is the exact same as liz in better than the movies, and i know it is the same author, but it just really bothers me. i do like emilie's character development, but i wish she kept some of her original values

(northwestern for example)

. i love her confessions at the beginning of each chapter, and overall, i think she is an okay character.

nick stark: eeeek!!!! nick may or may not be my favorite book boy from lynn painter. he just respects emilie (kind of) and is spontaneous and really sweet.

at the endish when he would not talk to emilie, i was kind of frustrated.

the ending-ending though?!!??!?! OH MY GOODNESS- we love him.

PLOT ♡
this is definitely the most "out there" of lynn painter's ya books. i mean, there are literal repeating days. it is weird though because this book is definitely still a contemporary. but the repeating DAYS!!!!

and the jacket!!!

maybe i am picky, but i wish there was a better explanation for the days. i do not know. this book is really just a lighthearted read,

and i will say that the day of no consequences did not stress me out as much this time around, but the thirty or so pages afterwards are still hard to get through. the parental dynamic in the end is unrealistic in the way everything is magically resolved. also, page 230 has an error on the floorplan of emilie's dad's house.

i realize i have spent this whole review bashing the book, but it was okay and just a really cute valentine's romcom.