I loved the idea of this book and I love the movie Groundhog day! I thought the main characters were easy to read and I enjoyed their dynamic but the book was just too long. I felt like it was dragging on with not much going on, unfortunately, didn't finish it I stopped about halfway through.

I loved this book! See You Yesterday is a Groundhog’s Day-type story about two students named Barrett and Miles who are trapped repeating their first day of college. They try everything from physics to improving themselves to considering what the universe wants to try to make it to the next day. Some days they pull ridiculous stunts (like adopting 15 dogs at once!!) and other days they make really special things happen. There are tons of 80s/90s and Gilmore Girls references. There are hilarious cringey moments as well as vulnerable ones as the MCs get closer. There is Jewish representation as both MCs are Jewish. All in all, it was a really enjoyable story! And while this is a YA/NA book, the characters were pretty mature so it didn’t feel too juvenile to read.

I enjoyed this so much!! The premise hooked me and did not disappoint. I loved the characters, the romance, and the Jewish rep. Though hard-hitting in some points, this is an overall lighthearted read that I just adored.

Things I absolutely adored about this story:
Barrett and Miles
Their adventures
Making a time loop fit into a YA romance novel
RLS’s writing, as always
The growth from both characters by the end

Things I didn’t love so much:
All the science talk. I know there are people out there who enjoy that sort of thing but honestly, most of it went right over my head, and I found my eyes glazing over at those parts.

Truthfully though this was such an adorable story. From their coldness and mismatch to their tentative friendship to outright love, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Barrett and Miles grow as individuals and as a couple. My damn heart broke when Miles didn’t remember Barrett at first though.

This book was everything I’ve come to expect from RLS: adorable, with lush, distinct settings, adventure, and a love story that really tugs on your heart strings.

What a wild ride! I didn't think I could be into a time-traveling/loop book but here we are- me with a smile on my face. Miles and Barret were so adorable, separate and together. I loved their quirks, the story of learning to love themselves and learning to trust someone. Rachel did a great job of keeping the humor going without it distracting from the story, and she kept my attention all the way through, even though we lived through this day over and over again. I'd compare this story as a more scientific version of Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid crossed with In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren. I loved it! Rachel is definitely an auto-buy author for me and that continues with this story!

I loved the book so much. Rachel Lynn Solomon has a way with witty and meaningful books that tug at my my heart. Not to sound too cliché because this is a TimeLoop/Groundhog Day story, but there are some repetititve parts that make this book extra long. I love how the book ends, but my favorite part involves a ball pit! I will share this book far and wide. So many people will love it!

Is this book a little quirky? Yes. Is it also amazingly entertaining? Yes, definitely. This is not on original concept, but it is well written and enjoyable. I liked it more than another the other Groundhog day trope stories I have read.

This book was just EVERYTHING!!!!!! I cant make this up, Barrett is am amazing character, she’s funny as hell, and doesn’t care about what anyone says about her, she is also ambitious, stands up for herself and takes nothing from no one. Even though she went through something horrible in high school she decided that her college years will be different, even her mom promised that it will. Her mom is awesome by the way, I aspire to be a mom like her, fun, creative and supporting.

Anyway, weird crap has been going on already, there are a lot of weird things going on in the first day of school, and before we know it, she’s stuck on repeat of the first day of school. But not alone, she meets Miles, this cute classmate, who is also stuck in this loop for a while already. Together they are on a mission to find the solution, is this magic? Or is this science? Or a mix?

Their journey to find the solution was so much fun, they do things they normally wouldn’t do, they even overcome a lot of their awkwardness, they get to know each other more, and discover more about themselves. This is a journey worth going through for them, and they soon find out that they were meant to be.

This book was too sweet and I couldn’t stop laughing through the good and weird things they experience, I experienced a ton of emotions reading this book. This is by far my fave YA couple I have read.

Gorgeous of course. Rachel’s writing will never not move me and sweep me off my feet. A perfect, swoony read. Highly recommend!

THANK YOU TO NETGALLEY AND SIMON SCHUESTER FOR LETTING ME READ THE ARC.

I had such a fun time reading this book, it was beyond precious, warm and spirited. I loved the queer, Jewish and big girl representation, I loved the time travel, I LOVED the characters. The writing was so intentional, natural and quick witted that it was easy to power through; I finished it in a day. The dialogue was especially believable and it honestly just left me with such a good feeling once I finished. I will be reading more of Solomon’s work in the future, it was just an overall enjoyable reading experience and I’m so thankful I got to read it early!

This book started and ended strong but got a bit slow in the middle. I love a good time loop story and while I think it may be better in movie format, this did a decent job of trying to translate it to a book without getting too repetitive.

Thank you to Net Galley, the author, and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

See You Yesterday is a great coming-of-age romance with a time loop twist. It's Groundhog Day meets a less raunchy Palm Springs.

The story finds the protagonist, Barrett Bloom, experiencing a truly terrible first day of college classes. And after the traumatic end of her senior year, she'd really been hoping for a fresh start. Little did she know, she'd be getting that fresh start... over and over and over again. She finds herself strangely repeating the first day of classes on an endless loop, only she's not alone. She's stuck there alongside Miles, the somewhat abrasive guy she met in Physics 101. Thing is, he's been stuck in the loop a whole lot longer. And has yet to determine a way out. Barrett remains convinced that the universe has something magical up its sleeve, while Miles is hellbent on finding a scientific explanation for what's happened to them.

I've only read one other time loop-centric novel (Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze) and my main complaint there was that the time loop plot device was quickly abandoned. That's not the case here. Rachel Lynn Solomon does a great job of keeping the reader invested in Miles and Barrett's situation by exploring all of the different possibilities (good and bad) that can come from it.

It did remind me A LOT of Palm Springs. However, by setting it on a college campus, and offering up characters whose identities are far different than the ones featured in that film, she breathes some fresh life into this particular trope. I've read a couple of her novels that were geared more towards adults. And while this one is a bit more on the mature end of young-adult, I would categorize it alongside her other YA-esque novel, Today Tonight Tomorrow. And of the books I've read by her, these two are by far my favorite.

Definitely recommend for anyone interested in a cute, fun, and heartfelt read.

I read Today, Tonight, Tomorrow months ago, so when I got this ARC I knew it would be amazing, and I was right! This college-romance takes place on the same day... and with every passing second I fell more in love with the characters' banter and ever-growing connection. If you're a fan of that academic romance mixed with humor and some "omg that was so sweet I'm crying" moments, this is your book. I can't thank NetGalley and Rachel Lynn Solomon's team enough for this ARC!

I will read this again in a heartbeat!

For reasons to still be psychoanalyzed, I am a big fan of Groundhog day stories. Groundhog Day + Romance? Absolutely, yes! The main character was fun and spunky and at the same time very relatable with fears and worries just like all of us. I loved that her culture was important to her and it wasn't something that she dismissed as being irrelevant to who she was/is.

I loved that she and the main love interested, even if stuck in a timeloop, bonded over things that were important to them (like family and faith), and not just trivial things like appearances. I loved their banter and their willingness to work together despite all the uncertainty that was thrown at them.

Would definitely recommend this to anyone and I can't wait until it comes out!

If I was stuck in a time loop & only had this book to occupy me - I’d READ IT OVER & OVER again.

🌸 SEE YOU YESTERDAY is a time loop + disastrous first day of college + witty gal/serious boy romance and I am obsessed with it. Prepare for this book to become my new personality (and if u know me u already know that today, tonight, tomorrow is my entire personality LMAO)

🌸 I was a teen obsessed with Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver circa 2010 so I love a good time loop story. (But don’t get me wrong this is FUNNY. Laugh out loud funny). Our protagonist Barrett is snarky and uses humor to cope with her emotions which is just so #relatable it hurts.

🌸Also: the romance. There is something so particularly swoony about Barrett & Miles. The only two stuck reliving there first day of freshman year over & over and they can only depend on each other 😭
Plus, the Jewish rep of course. I love how every protagonist in @rlynn_solomon’s books have a different connection to Judaism.

(Thank u forever @simonteen for sending me an early copy - this comes out 5/17!)

❤️YA set in college = my love language❤️

See You Yesterday is a young adult (although it's probably more realistic to classify it as new adult) book about a college freshman named Barrett who gets stuck in a time loop, continuing the relive her first day of class again and again. She's stuck with another freshman named Miles, an aspiring physics major, and the two of them must figure out how to stop the time loop and make it to the next day.

I thought this book was charming. I loved how loud and unapologetically herself Barrett was, and that she experienced a lot of growth and development without sacrificing who she was as a person. She was funny and yet still so flawed and she was just so easy to love - I was worried at the beginning, when she and Lucie reconnected, that I wouldn't like Barrett much, but as the story progressed, I found out that I had nothing to fear and that she was hilarious and sweet and charming. Miles, too, was charming and fun, and I loved getting to watch him come out of his shell.

The story itself was actually really interesting. I was worried that it would be either overdone (since Groundhog Day is already a thing) or repetitive (since they were reliving the same day over and over again), but neither of those happened to be the case - in fact, there were a lot of Groundhog Day references that made me chuckle. The science fiction aspect to it was way easier to understand than I thought it would be. When I started the book, I was worried that there would be a lot of complicated physics that went over my head, but that was not the case. The physics was there, but it was explained in a way that made sense and it wasn't necessarily a huge part of the plot so it wasn't necessary for me to know everything.

The only thing about this book I didn't totally love was that all of Barrett's development with Lucie kept getting lost. And I know that Barrett developed and that was the point of the story, but it made me sad to think about them all starting over again and again. I don't know, something about the connections between the characters that weren't Barrett and Miles felt a little off, probably because they kept redoing the same day over and over again without anyone remembering the previous iteration.

Such a cute read with a unique premise. How do you spend every day with someone and feel like you don't know anything about them. A quick and interesting read that kept me turning page after page until way past my bedtime.

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review!

Rachel Lynn Solomon's YA (although it really should be categorized as New Adult/NA) time-loop contemporary romance, See You Yesterday, kicks off with college freshman Barrett Bloom waking up in her dorm room at the University of Washington on September 21st. This is her first day, and she’s hoping this period of her life is when she’ll be able to transform herself for the better and put all the bullying and humiliation she endured in high school behind her. So of course she finds out her roommate is Lucie Lamont, the former editor-in-chief of her high school newspaper and her friend-turned-nemesis who participated in said bullying and humiliation. The rest of the day’s events, including Barrett fouling up her interview for the college paper and then inadvertently setting a fraternity on fire, do a great job at dampening her spirits even further. The cherry on top? She realizes the next morning that she’s actually reliving the same day all over again. Oh, and then she eventually learns Miles Kasher-Okamoto, a bookish and curt student from her Physics 101 class, is trapped in the time-loop with her.

**Trigger Warning** Readers, please beware this book’s depiction of bullying, sexual harassment, anxiety attacks, mental health, body shaming, and drug abuse.

Essentially the answer to the question “What if Palm Springs, but in college?”, See You Yesterday (the cover and naming convention of which seem to be heavily inspired by those of Today Tonight Tomorrow, another one of Solomon’s YA/NA reads) has now taken a new spot in my Favorite Time-Loop Stories list. It contains all the undeniable charm, spontaneous chaos, and fleshed-out character evolution you want out of a tale that sees its leads repeating the same day over and over until they finally figure out how to break the cycle. Barrett is a particularly endearing protagonist as she grapples with the trauma that came from all the jerks who ostracized and taunted her in high school, slowly befriends Miles to the point that they could potentially become something more, and ruminates over the new ways in which she’s able to view relationships with people in her life thanks to the ephemeral variety of interactions that occur in this time-loop.

Lucie is one example of someone with whom Barrett shares numerous moments—moments that incrementally build up and have a poignant impact on Barrett despite whichever version of Lucie is with her being unable to recall those events. Miles deals with similarly complicated issues in his own life, making him compelling to follow as well. Together, Barrett and Miles end up creating a compassionate bond full of growth, vulnerability, and healing. This does wonders for mental health rep, which Solomon’s work sensitively handles (if you want more of that, check out her newest adult-aimed contemporary romance Weather Girl). Her witty prose and the wry banter she pens between Barrett and Miles is another trademark of hers that I’m glad to witness in this book.

An element of See You Yesterday that does bother me, however, is Miles falling into the Sexually Inexperienced Asian Man stereotype. Solomon already used this for Dominic Yun in her fake-dating and enemies-to-lovers contemporary romance The Ex Talk, and I was willing to brush it off back then. But now she’s reusing it here, which is completely unnecessary. It’s strange, because she typically gives so much thought to the representation, e.g. writing Barrett as a Jewish and plus-size lead, then writing Miles as Jewish through his father’s side, therefore subverting the stereotype of Judaism being passed down through matrilineal descent. That’s what makes it even more disappointing to see both Miles and Dominic get boxed up in the same racist trope. Hopefully, Solomon will be able to break out of this stereotyping the next time she depicts an Asian guy.

As for the science-fiction, it works for me pretty much from start to finish. The story begins solidly enough, then drops some time-loop mechanics as it progresses—one of them being an especially interesting rule that I don’t think I’ve come across in other time-loop tales. While the middle of the plot slows down a bit, the mechanics keep me engaged and get across the point of the lightly sci-fi premise without becoming tedious or befuddling.

Overall, See You Yesterday has plenty for time-loop fans to find pleasure in with its heartfelt core, its pair of lovable leads whose relationship is packed with substance, and its mostly nuanced inclusivity. Make sure you check it out once it’s published on May 17th.

Oh, to be able to get a do-over for one of the worst days of your life. That’s what’s happening to Barrett Bloom, new freshman trying to start out exactly as that— “fresh” (but gets assigned her high school nemesis as her roommate). Although it’s a Ground Hog Day/Palm Springs style do-over….and over…and over again. What makes the book fun is that Barrett finds another person, Miles, also stuck in the same time loop (albeit while she’s on day 3, he’s on day 61) and they try to discover together how to get off the time warp merry-go-round. For people who were complete strangers on their first September 21, they are forced to get to know each. If they get out of this time loop will Barrett and Miles remember each other?

“See You Yesterday” is a YA book that will delight older audiences as well. It has many poignant and joyful moments and the time warp keeps the reader wondering about what’s next. A great book from Rachel Lynn Solomon! 4 stars!

Thank you to Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review!

Literary Pet Peeve Checklist:
Green Eyes (only 2% of the real world, yet it seems like 90% of all fictional females): YES Dr. Devereux’s eyes are bright green.
Horticultural Faux Pas (plants out of season or growing zones, like daffodils in autumn or bougainvillea in Alaska): NO Appropriate Pacific Northwest-y landscape is around.

Honestly, I can't get enough of Rachel Lynn Solomon's romantic comedy books. Her characters are fun and fully realized with hangups and issues that many people have experience with. Plus who doesn't love a fun take on Groundhog's Day!