RLS always come through with excellent YA! While this veers toward the NA category, I'm still excited to put it in my library. It's a charmingly weird story, which incorporates both romance and scifi, so I was into it immediately.

See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon
Pub date: May 17
YA/NA

I had so much fun with this! The story is romantic, hilarious and heartfelt and the quirkiest recreation of Groundhog Day that I’ve seen. I absolutely adored these characters and I was truly sad when it was over. See You Yesterday was as endearing as it was entertaining and Rachel Lynn Solomon has become a new favorite author for me.

Barrett is hoping that college is going to be a fresh start for her. She had a very difficult high school experience and she's ready for a new beginning. Unfortunately for her, her first day is a disaster and she goes to bed hoping to try again the next day. The universe has a sense of humor though and she quickly figures out that she’s stuck repeating her first day over and over again in a time loop. Thankfully she’s not alone…Miles, the physics nerd from one of her classes is stuck, too, and has been for even longer than her.

See You Yesterday is the funny, imaginative and charming YA romance that I didn’t know I was looking for. Barrett and Miles struck up an unlikely friendship while trying to escape their predicament that was super sweet, and after everything they’ve each been through I was really cheering them on. Their characters are likable and I just adored shy, geeky Miles and outgoing, messy Barrett. The transition from high school to college is tough and their fears and expectations felt very relatable. These characters are so well developed that even though the story is told in a single POV, you feel like you know them both inside and out. There’s a grumpy/sunshine dynamic that I loved and a slow burn romance that gets pretty steamy for the YA genre.

A lot of difficult topics like addiction, bullying, and sexual harassment were handled with sensitivity and I loved the plus sized, Jewish representation in the story. I enjoyed the banter, the hilarious situations they got into and all of the pop culture references, too.

This story is witty, charming, and clever and I can’t wait to read more from this author! Fans of the Netflix shows Russian Doll and Palm Springs will love this one, too. Thank you so much to NetGalley and Simon Schuster for the ARC to read and review. See You Yesterday comes out on May 17th!

Barrett Bloom had a crappy first day of college. Like burning a frat house down bad. Don’t we all wish we could have a do-over some days? But when Barrett has to relive the same day over and over it’s not a blessing; it’s a curse.

Fortunately she figures out early in the process that she has a partner in this disaster, Miles the physics nerd. They go from strangers/enemies to friends to more. It’s an unbelievable situation that they are in, but somehow is seems believable. And as a team, they make the best of it; learning from each other along the way.

This is one of those books that definitely makes you question reality and wonder if such a thing could actually happen. Such great representation in this book too! I love a diverse cast of characters and learning something along the way too. Yay science!

I don’t read a lot of YA, but I have loved all of RSL’s books!

I requested an advance reader copy of this book and these are my honest opinions.

Amazing, iconic, couldn't get enough of this! I now crave mozzarella sticks. I love Miles and Barrett and their realness and honest confrontation of their problems was so moving. Time loop romance=angst+swooning and I love it. So worth the read when it comes out!

Thank you Netgalley and publishers for the Digital Advanced Copy!

I never know how I’m going to feel about the whole time loop/Groundhog’s Day trope! Sometimes it works for me, a lot of times it flops hard. However, this one worked! I just love Rachel Lynn Solomon’s writing style and her stories always have such a unique spin on classic tropes. This one has enemies-to-lovers, a plus sized main character, and a nerdy love interest. Count me in! When I read the synopsis that said the MC was going to be reliving her first day of college over and over again I physically cringed on her behalf. Yikes! As I read, I felt like I, myself, traveled back in time to my college days living inside the dorms in this story lol! This is classified as YA, but I feel like new adult is more fitting. 4 stars from me! Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for my advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest review! SEE YOU YESTERDAY will be in stores May 17th!

This book is absolutely delightful! Barrett is hilarious and I laughed out loud at her snappy one-liners and banter with Miles multiple times. The story is so unique and I was incredibly invested in their quest to get out of the time loop. And it's not just all fun and games - there were deeply emotional moments scattered among the hijinks. I was not expecting to like this as much as I did. This is Groundhog Day done masterfully well.

Thank you to Netgalley, Simon and Schuster, and the author for the eARC in exchange for my review.

Read/Listen If You Like:
❤️ Reading Diversely
❤️ An Average/Curvy size MC
❤️ Groundhogs Day kind of Plot (on steroids)
❤️ Gilmore Girl like mother/daughter relationship
❤️ Enemies to Lovers YA

Book Review:
This book gave such a unique plot and storyline and I absolutely loved it! It was so cute and fresh and even though it was a YA Romance it also had me playing detective a bit to see if I could figure out what would get Barrett back to a normal time continuum and out of the time loop on September 21st.

I loved the building of such a strong relationship between Barrett and Miles in their vacuum and how the message that your words and actions have a deep impact and that you can choose differently in the way you behave and treat others and how different the same day played out based on making those choices whether negative or positive.

I also really loved that the thing that finally got Barrett out of the time loop wasn’t perfection but something outside of her choices and actions after she had grown while in the time loop but not perfect and that when exiting the time loop she made conscious choices to be better and take care of herself.

Thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster the ARC of this book! I am so thankful to obtain a copy to read in advance of its release!

Thank you to Simon and Schuster, Rachel Lynn Solomon and Netgalley for letting me read See You Yesterday early. This one comes out on May 17.

I really enjoyed this book. It was such a great escape and a quick, easy read. I love these characters and got so attached to them. If you’re looking for a book that explores messy feelings, family dynamics and college life with a time loop then this one is for you.

Barrett Bloom is looking for a fresh start in college after a hard high school experience. School begins on September 21st, everything goes wrong. She’s humiliated by the know-it-all in her physics class, she botches her interview for the college paper, and at a party that night, she accidentally sets a frat on fire. She panics and flees, and when she realizes her roommate locked her out of their dorm, she falls asleep in the common room. The next morning she’s back in her dorm and it’s September 21 again. Once she finds out she’s not alone they team up to try to find a way out.

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(Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the complimentary ARC. All opinions provided are my own.)

Fun(ish) fact about me: one of my worst movie memories is of being a kid watching Groundhog Day in theatres with my dad & stepmom & feeling such angst like WHY does this keep happening & WHY do I have to watch it 😆😆.

Groundhog day is the basic plot of Rachel Lynn Solomon’s See You Yesterday but I really enjoyed it in this iteration 😅: a freshman in college named Barrett Bloom finds herself reliving the same day over & over again—though the events in “each new day” differ drastically. She soon realizes that the guy who pissed her off her first day in physics might be able to relate to her problem…

This book made me feel lots of things, especially bc Barrett wants college to be so different from her horrible & traumatic high school experience. Solomon considers all of the emotions drudged up by the ways college is different, & the ways it can be similar, skillfully.

The relationship between Barrett & Miles is something that’s comforting, thrilling, & challenging for both of them, & not only is it really fun watching two different personalities work together for a cause (like, you know, getting themselves out of a time loop), it’s also lovely & engrossing watching them understand what they could gain (& possibly lose) by making it back to where they’re supposed to be.

See You Yesterday delivers on whimsy & imagination & emotion. It’s not my fave of Solomon’s books (that goes to Weather Girl or Today Tonight Tomorrow) but it kept me on my toes & it was very very sweet.

4.5 ⭐️. Release date: 05/17.


CW: high school bullying. In high school Barrett had sex with someone who she later realized was the brother of the boy whose college plans were affected by an investigative newspaper article she’d written & that person announced it to everyone. Students at her high school turned losing her virginity into a hashtag & repeatedly publicly humiliated her. Miles’s brother is in rehab.



ID: an ebook sits on a pink, white, & black book square that matches the colors on the cover. The second slide is the same without the ebook.

Rachel Lynn Solomon does it again! I have absolutely loved every book she has written and was so excited to find that she had a time loop story up her sleeve!
If there’s time travel - I’m there for it. Every time! I have read many time loop stories and very few have hit the mark for me, but I loved this one! My only complaint was that the final conflict seemed to be resolved at warp speed without enough explanation. This left the ending feeling a bit rushed for me. However, it wasn’t so terrible as to knock this book down from it’s five star standing, in my opinion.
Thank you to the author, NetGalley, and Simon & Shuster Books for a digital ARC in exchange for my honest review.

See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon, 432 pages. Simon & Schuster, 2022. $20.
Language: R (209 swears, 88 “f”); Mature Content: R; Violence: PG
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Everything will be different – better – at college, at least, that’s what Barrett (18yo) told herself. And then she burned down a house on the first day of classes. Thankfully, she woke up on the morning of the first day of classes a second time for a redo from the universe. But then it happened again. And again.
Most of what I didn’t like about this book are the frequency of Barrett’s dirty jokes and the sex scene, but I loved the story – a new take on Groundhog Day – and how brilliantly Solomon wove everyone’s lives together. I enjoyed the two very different perspectives that Barrett and Miles have, and their relatable struggles with life and relationships and fear. For better or worse, Solomon has dated her book with a few contemporary references, like Baby Yoda, that make the story that much more fun for readers of today.
Barrett is Jewish, and Miles is both Jewish and Japanese. The mature content rating is for underage drinking, innuendo, mentions of drugs, illegal activity, mentions of genitalia, mentions of masturbation and orgasms, nudity, and sex. The violence rating is for severe bullying, threats, and death.
Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen

I'm a fan of author Rachel Lynn Solomon, and this book lived up to my expectations. Is this a work of spell binding literature? No, but why would you want that anyway? YA RomComs are for easy escapism, and See You Yesterday fits the bill. It's entertaining and enjoyable, although not original, but again you shouldn't be reading this for originality. Enjoy the well-worn tropes and feel satisfied with the easy conclusion.

Do you remember the 21st night of September? Because Barrett Bloom does.

“See You Yesterday” is my fifth Rachel Lynn Solomon novel. I can’t seem to stop reading her rom-coms; they always seem to have the most interesting hooks with the wackiest casts of characters, and Solomon’s latest YA novel is no exception.

Barrett is just beginning her freshman year at the University of Washington, and she’s having a terrible day. Her roommate turns out to be her high school nemesis, and some guy makes fun of her in physics class. But her day goes from bad to worse when she sets a frat house on fire.

And then she wakes up, and it’s the same day. And that guy from physics? He’s been living this day for months now.

Barrett is extremely annoying. She has to be, at the start of the book. Her love interest, Miles, is too. But as they spent more and more of their days (day?) together, I grew to genuinely like them. I wanted them to get out of this time loop so badly that I could not stop reading.

Now, do I think this book was a lot like “Today Tonight Tomorrow,” but in college and with a “Groundhog Day”-esque premise? Yes. The cover is literally the exact same thing but in pink.

But I don’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing. When you pick up this book, you know what you’re in for, and that’s the fun thing about romances — the point of reading it is more about the journey the characters go through to get to where they need to be.

Solomon’s humor is on point as usual; she doesn’t make the terrible millennial mistake of incorporating too many pop culture references, and her characters also don’t sound like they’re from decades ago. Barrett and Miles’ romance is adorable, and despite the confines of the time loop, I also loved the relationships they developed with the side characters.

The one thing I would like to point out, though, is that this book is ultimately written by a white person, and that readers of color should be advised that the representation in this book, though abundant and inoffensive, probably isn’t going to be accurate to real experience. Miles is biracial — Jewish on his dad’s side, Japanese on his mom’s side — and the only time they discuss his identity in the novel was cringe-worthy at best.

This is an issue with pretty much every book written by a white person I’ve ever read, and that speaks to publishing’s need for diverse works told by authors who share their characters’ experiences. (Solomon’s representations of Jewish identity and mental illness are, as always, rich and nuanced.)

That all being said, I loved “See You Yesterday.” Which shouldn’t have surprised me, given how much I loved “Palm Springs,” a Hulu movie with essentially the same premise but set at a wedding.

“See You Yesterday” comes out on May 17, 2022. I received an early copy from the publisher, Simon and Schuster, in exchange for an honest review.

The wonderful @rlynn_solomon has a new book on shelves May 17th and it’s terrific!

Here is Barrett on her first day of college classes. She gets stuck in a time loop with none other than the rude guy, Miles, from physics class! Can you believe?!

This time travel plus college days novel has so much good stuff going for it. Slow burn romance, friendship exploration, complex family dynamics, learning how to process and cope with trauma, forgiveness, self-love, and more. Not to mention it’s funny, sweet, and doesn’t get too deep into the time travel phenomenon to distract from the loveliness of the plot and characters.

I wholeheartedly recommend this for anyone seeking a lighthearted read that isn’t afraid to look closer at messy feelings.

“See You Yesterday” follows a girl forced to relive her first day of college that doesn't exactly go to plan.

Barrett Bloom's first day of college is a disaster. She ends up with an unexpected roommate, is humiliated in her first class of the day, bombs her interview for the college paper, and she accidentally sets a frat on fire. The next day, she finds herself back in her dorm and the clock reads September 21st. Again. As it turns out, she's not the only one stuck. Miles - a know-it-all from her Physics class - has been trapped for months. Miles and her try to figure out a way back to the present and find that they actually work well together.

This fun, YA novel is perfect for fans of “Groundhogs Day” or anyone who appreciates a little magical realism in their books.

This is Rachel’s newest YA book (releases May 17th) and I’ve been hyped for this one ever since I heard her talk about it during a virtual release for Weather Girl and it did not disappoint!!

I meant to only read a chapter one night since I was reading other books and really need to catch up on sleep, but then I ended up reading 100 pages and actually bringing the physical book to work with my the next day (which I rarely do).

Like all of Rachel’s books we have excellent humor, jewish characters, a Seattle setting that makes you want to book a ticket asap, and sex positivity.

I adored Barrett and Miles as characters and loved seeing them work through the time loop together. I haven’t read/watched a ton of time loop content, but what I have read/watched has been hit and miss for me, but this was a hit. I loved seeing what they would do on different days and seeing them be so serious to fix it one day only to give up and have fun the next felt very realistic. Even though it could feel a bit repetitive, it doesn’t really (until the end a bit, but I think that is on purpose so you feel a bit of what the characters are dealing with).

My only critique that is 100% a me thing is that this has a fair amount of physics talk and for some that took a ton of physics in college and suffered through every single class it was A LOT. But, shoutout to the guy in my Physics class that helped me out a lot (he was forced to since we were on a team with another guy) and is basically the only reason I did okay that quarter. Anyways. I had a crush on him for a hot second and did not get stuck in a time loop with him so nothing happened between us.

Overall, I loved this YA novel and if you like character driven YA novels with humor, fun antics, with a dash of existential crisis feels, then check this one out!

See You Yesterday is a story about time travel, trauma, and teenagers. Barrett Bloom is starting college at University if Washington. She had a not so great high school experience and wants to have a fresh new start. However, in true Barrett fashion, things go wrong and spiral out of control. (Un)Luckily for her, when she wakes up the next day, she wakes up and relives the same day over and over.

I liked the self referential nods to the movie Groundhog Day. A story about reliving the same day just wouldn’t be possible without that movie!

The most interesting thing about this book is the subplot about Barrett’s trauma. It gave the book a little more deeper meaning and made you think about why she was experiencing the same day over and over. The way her friend Miles also listens to and treats her story is affirming and could be a helpful treating tool for readers who to process their own trauma and other peoples as well.

This was my first and certainly not my last time reading a Rachel Lynn Solomon book because oh wow I adored this one. Imagine a Groundhog Day situation and you are re-living the first day of college over and over again but you are not alone. Instead, you and the snarky boy from your Physics class who gets on your nerves is also stuck in the time loop and together you have to figure a way to make it to tomorrow.

I was so stoked to get an ARC of this book because Rachel Lynn Solomon has been on my TBR for ages now and I loved this read so much that I know I will have to be back for more. The story is shelved as a YA book but the themes and character development are mature and real. I felt like Barrett (MC) and Miles (Physics boy) were truly amazing yet flawed main characters. They dealt with self-doubt and identity crises - all real emotions for first-year students. Their personalities were so different from one another and yet their journey together through this bizarre first day of college over and over showcased that their compatibility and chemistry was on another level.

I loved this book so much and I honestly love how the Groundhog Day theme was used. They relived the same day so many times and yet the story kept moving. It was never a monotonous re-telling and I loved how Barrett and Miles were in it together because their character development was really contingent on their progression together. They truly bring out the best in each other and I can’t wait for everyone to read about them!

See You Yesterday takes on the idea of Groundhog Day in a romance of epic proportions!

Rachel Lynn did such an amazing job and did such a unique and entertaining book. The idea of repeating the same crummy day in college over and over again along with her nemesis that keeps repeating the same day with her as well. It’s enemies to lovers at its finest and the angst is delicious! The book has Jewish rep, plus size rep, forced proximity, slow burn romance while also bringing more serious topics anxiety, panic attacks, ptsd, etc.

The book is emotional, heart wrenching, sweet. I loved their dynamic. Their hate to love to friends to lovers, their unlikely of pairing and romance, the way they are opposites and yet somehow make sense together. I loved the messages that the book gave about self love and characters that get their happy ending while also dealing with heavier things. I thought that the topics like anxiety and that sort were written and handled in a manner that felt right for the characters. I love how they bring something out of each other. The way we see Miles break out of his shell, understand Barrett. I thought the story flowed well and I was smiling so hard at their cute scenes while sniffling through tbr emotional.

Overall, an amazing book and highly recommend reading this!

I enjoy a good rom/com, this isn't very amusing. Almost cover to cover with standard tropes. Also frustrating that the main character considers herself intelligent but is wildly oblivious. Lost her virginity to a guy with the same name as someone she exposed in the school paper but somehow didn't know they were BROTHERS. That's just the first of many clueless moments. Also a shout out to setting a frat house on fire with a fallen tiki torch. Author has clearly never attempted to start a fire before.