Emilie and Nick drive to downtown Omaha for a day full of fun, adventure and flirting. Emilie takes her dad’s fancy car for a joy ride, embarrasses her boyfriend Josh and asks Nick to skip school with her.

Thus, the DONC (the day of no consequences) is born. When Emilie finally has enough, she decides she wants to have a day just for herself. Emilie learns there’s a lot more to Nick than she ever expected and as she keeps living the same day over and over again, she wants to spend more time with him. Emilie keeps hitting Nick’s car, her cute and emotionally distant lab partner. But Emilie tries everything to change her bad day…but nothing works.Īt least there’s one good thing to come out of the time loop. Emilie believes that being stuck in a time loop is the universe’s way of telling her to fix everything that happened.

After a horrible day, she seeks comfort from her grandmother, ready to start again tomorrow.Įxcept, she wakes up in her own room and it’s Valentine’s Day.

Well, except getting into a car accident, seeing Josh kiss another girl, losing her dream journalism summer program and finding out her dad is moving to Texas. She has every detail planned and nothing could mess with her excitement. It’s Valentine’s Day! Emilie Hornby can’t wait to share the perfect day with her boyfriend Josh. In this “unequivocally hilarious and delightful” ( Kirkus Reviews) young adult romp for fans of Recommended for You and A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow, a teen girl has the worst Valentine’s Day ever-only to relive it over and over again.Īfter living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother’s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry’s.*We received this book in exchange for an honest review.* She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she’s back home in her own bed-and it’s Valentine’s Day all over again. And the next day? Another horrendous V-Day.Įmilie is stuck in some sort of time loop nightmare that she can’t wake up from as she re-watches her boyfriend, Josh, cheat on her day after day. How many times can one girl passively watch her life go up in flames? And when something good starts to come out of these terrible days, what happens when the universe stops doling out do-overs? In addition to Josh’s recurring infidelity, Emilie can’t get away from the enigmatic Nick, who she keeps running into-sometimes literally-in unfortunate ways. 'No one writes YA enemies-to-lovers quite like Painter. She perfectly balances witty banter with heart-melting moments. A time loop trope is often difficult to navigate in YA because the characters are largely relied on to drive the plot Painter executes this flawlessly as she creates characters that are well developed and relatable.

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