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mels_reading_log's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Real life isn’t always perfect and exciting. If you had a chance to call the past and change everything, would you? Georgie and Neal are married and have two little girls, but Georgie’s main priority is her job writing a new comedy show with her best friend, Seth. The family is off to Omaha for Christmas, but work needs her, so Georgie stays behind. While at her mom’s house that night she goes in her childhood bedroom and uses the old landline to call Neal’s mom’s house to check in. When he answers, he’s not quite the Neal who left her days before.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Medical content, Pregnancy, and Blood
Minor: Death of parent
claire_b322's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content
brontesauruses's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Ngl, this has been on my tbr list for a while, but I picked it up now because I'd heard that Cath and Levi from Fangirl get a cameo (they do and it's cute as shit). I'm glad I did. I enjoyed it.
I'm a speculative fiction girly at heart, so I liked the magical realism element. I also feel like Rowell did a good job of selling Neal to the reader - like <I>yes</I>, this is the man Georgie would want to risk it all for. Him and their life together, even if it's messy.
I was, however, left with several questions at the end (not about the phone, I just accepted that). Would love to know how one very big thing worked out in particular, but I guess we don't get that information. I know life is full of not getting information we want but UGH.
Also: I really do hope that [redacted] finds somebody. I can't help liking him, and I think that would make for a good...novella? Short story? Wholeass book? Idk, I'd read it. Maybe for the 10th anniversary? 👀
EDIT: Ohhhh you know who should also get a novella/short s
Also also I learned so much about whelping pugs. (Probably?)
I'm a speculative fiction girly at heart, so I liked the magical realism element. I also feel like Rowell did a good job of selling Neal to the reader - like <I>yes</I>, this is the man Georgie would want to risk it all for. Him and their life together, even if it's messy.
I was, however, left with several questions at the end (not about the phone, I just accepted that). Would love to know how one very big thing worked out in particular, but I guess we don't get that information. I know life is full of not getting information we want but UGH.
Also: I really do hope that [redacted] finds somebody. I can't help liking him, and I think that would make for a good...novella? Short story? Wholeass book? Idk, I'd read it. Maybe for the 10th anniversary? 👀
EDIT: Ohhhh you know who should also get a novella/short s
Also also I learned so much about whelping pugs. (Probably?)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Blood, and Pregnancy
Moderate: Death of parent and Grief
Minor: Infidelity
itsbumley's review against another edition
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Grief, Blood, and Medical content
Moderate: Infidelity
Minor: Eating disorder and Sexual content
greatu's review against another edition
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death of parent, Medical content, and Pregnancy
crochet_bby's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Really engaging- once I actually had a chance to sit down with it, I blew through it in about 3 hours! Made me tear up at the end, too.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Medical content, and Pregnancy
themindofjosie's review against another edition
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
This book made me feel every single emotion, ones of hope and despair, love and heartbreak, and dread for it’s ending. The characters aren’t perfect and it doesn’t have a “happy ending”, but it is enough for her (and them) at the moment. They made their own enough and continue to do so, I can only fill in the blanks with my imagination, but I know that they’re happy no matter the bumps that show up on the road. Rainbow Rowell continues to write books that I enjoy reading. I hope that you can read this book knowing the characters are human and will make mistakes just like the lot of us do.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gaslighting
Minor: Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, Medical content, and Grief
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