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A review by analenegrace
Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
This was such a great debut from Chatham Greenfield! They wrote such a beautiful piece of fiction full of heart and passion. As a disabled person with issues similar to Jess, a fat woman like Pheobe, and a queer woman in the South, it was really great to see parts of myself represented!
I LOVE time loop books because there's something so romantic about being the only two people who know about something. Greenfield captures the intensity of the trope and also what aspects of a person a time loop might bring out. I really appreciated the discussions of Phoebe's complacency and how Jess had to push her out of her comfort zone.
There were a lot of tiny things in this book that became important, and I thought that worked super well in a book with a time loop! This is absolutely one of the best time loop books I've read in recent years. Also, I love A Wrinkle in Time (and its crazy sequel where they meet Noah of the Ark), so I was very thrilled at how it was constantly mentioned.
Romance-wise, I really liked that this had childhood friends to strangers to friends to lovers with a bit of enemy in there because of their freshman-year misunderstanding. Often in YAs, I don't believe the characters are in love but Greenfield used the childhood friends aspect to really make me believe them; I loved how Phoebe's dad really believed in them but also had to make the choice to protect his daughter.
This book flew by and I adored it! Highly recommend!!
I LOVE time loop books because there's something so romantic about being the only two people who know about something. Greenfield captures the intensity of the trope and also what aspects of a person a time loop might bring out. I really appreciated the discussions of Phoebe's complacency and how Jess had to push her out of her comfort zone.
There were a lot of tiny things in this book that became important, and I thought that worked super well in a book with a time loop! This is absolutely one of the best time loop books I've read in recent years. Also, I love A Wrinkle in Time (and its crazy sequel where they meet Noah of the Ark), so I was very thrilled at how it was constantly mentioned.
Romance-wise, I really liked that this had childhood friends to strangers to friends to lovers with a bit of enemy in there because of their freshman-year misunderstanding. Often in YAs, I don't believe the characters are in love but Greenfield used the childhood friends aspect to really make me believe them; I loved how Phoebe's dad really believed in them but also had to make the choice to protect his daughter.
This book flew by and I adored it! Highly recommend!!