Title: The Do-over
Author: Lynn Painter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Genre: Young Adult
Pages: 320
My Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤
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The Do-Over
Emilie Hornby is organized, getting good grades, and has the perfect boyfriend… on paper. It is Valentine’s Day and she bought the perfect gift for her Josh and Emilie are ready for the most romantic day of the year. But everything goes wrong. Instead of having the perfect day, she is having the worst day ever. She decides to stay at her grandmothers house for the night, but when she wakes up, she is in her own bed again. At first, she thinks someone brought her back home, but as the minutes go by, she realizes it is Valentine’s Day again. Emilie is reliving the same day over and over again. She is trying to fix everything, but every morning she wakes up on Valentine´s Day again. Will she get out of this loop?
Review
A week before reading this book, I read another book (Better than the Movies) by Lynn Painter and I absolutely loved it. Which was kind of surprising to me, because she writes Young Adult and most of the time I find teenagers just too annoying. But I really liked the way Lynn writes. So a week after reading Better than the Movies, I decided to pick up this book, and guess what? I also really liked this one.
I think we all know the movie Groundhog Day, where this person wakes up on the exact same day over and over again. Sounds like a nightmare, although I sort of had the same feeling when I became an adult and was following the same routine every single day. It was terrible. Since the Groundhog Day movie, there have been many movies like this and even books. This is not the first book I read about a person waking up on the same day every single time. I’ve read ‘Before I Fall’ a few years ago. So I wasn’t sure if I would like this book or not. I mean, it is not a new formula the author uses. But honestly, it wasn’t too bad. I still liked this book. It never got boring.
Emilie is the perfect girl in high school: good grades, perfect boyfriend, and great friends. She is so organized, but when she is reliving the same day over and over, she stops caring at all. It feels like she has become more human. Everything in her life was so organized and scheduled. She even had a plan for Valentine’s Day: when to give her boyfriend his gift, what she was wearing, and everything. She was always following a schedule and that reminds me of myself. I think it is funny how Lynn Painter creates characters that I can relate to even when they are teenagers and I am not. In Better than the Movies, I could relate to the main character because she loves romantic movies and she is kind of a hopeless romantic. Anyway, in this book Emilie ditches her schedules and does whatever she wants and she is having the best day ever. Because it will have no consequences. She is finally doing things for herself and I love that!! She is not trying to please anyone.
I think Better than the Movies is still my favorite book by Lynn Painter, but this one is pretty close too. There is something about her writing style that I really like. I actually finished this book in less than a day, which is pretty rare because I don’t always have a lot of time to read. But this time I couldn’t stop reading. I think that is the best compliment you could give to an author.
Even though I am in my early thirties I still enjoyed reading this book about teenagers falling in love. I have read other Young Adults as an adult and sometimes the main characters are so annoying that makes me hate the book.
Overall, I can recommend this book if you just love cute little love stories. It is definitely one of those books you can finish in one day because you can’t stop reading. And this book gets one bonus point for using my name, for some reason, I always like that. Even though, my name wasn’t used for a person but I am just ignoring that.. Oh and before I forget, Lynn Painter creates playlists for every single book she writes and you can easily find them on Spotify and you can find the playlist for this book here.