The Here and Now | 
panIt pains me to say this, because I loved the Travelling Pants series, but Brashares really forked the duck on this one. It started off good, but right around the time the main characters realize they have 3 days to save the world, it falls apart when they spend those 3 days playing cards and trying not to have sex. The time traveling time lines are all messed up, and I really don't think Brashares gives young readers enough credit with this one.
This book about young love and time travelers and escaping your future kept me up late last night. No regrets!
“...carves a canyon right through the middle of me.”
Ooh love that!
so-soThis one involved time travel and changing the world. But it was, at the end, a love story and a story about family.
so-soThis was...eh. Good, but I hated the ending so much I can‘t bring myself to give it a pick.
pickI really really liked this book. I hope she'll continue the series, but after getting burned by "My Name Is Memory" (which ended on a cliffhanger and was never continued), my hopes aren't high.
so-soThere was nothing spectacular about this book, but it definitely wasn't bad. The concept was interesting but I think it could have been executed more smoothly. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #LitsyAtoZauthors @BookishMarginalia
panThis was my 1st taste of time travel genre & this book kinda made me not want to visit again. I really didn't like the writing style, the plot was all over, and the main was so flaky. The only reasons I pushed through to the end were 1. I think every book deserves a fair chance & 2. I have this horrible habit of not being able to quit a book once I've started it no matter how much I don't like it. Believe me, I've tried to stop #StruggleRead
panTime travel is what got this in my TBR pile. But the time travel is disappointingly—outrageously!—sloppy. Then there are letters sprinkled throughout to a character who is somewhat mysterious...and those letters turn out to be nonessential to the development of characters, plot, tone... Just a Chekhov's gun that finally fires a white flag w/the word "BANG" on it. Twists were predictable. And the last third of the book is obliquely sex-negative.
