I absolutely adored this book so much. I don't want to say too much as I don't want to spoil everything, but moving forward into the future to see how his life turned out was a blessing for Nolan Baker. This book was super sweet, gave me all of the good feels of 13 Going On 30 and loved the pop culture references (fellow Swiftie here). I may have teared up a time or two but mostly I smiled throughout the book. The moral of the story is be careful what you wish for, you may not like where it takes you.

I loved the Boy meets Boy series so much!

This last book is really beautiful and the characters are all cute and very well characterized!
I loved every single word!!!

Thanks to Netgalley and SourceBooksCasablanca for providing me with this ARC!

I'm obsessed with Timothy Janovsky and with this book. It's both a bananas romp of a comedy and a deeply felt, genuine exploration of figuring out who we really want to become. Absolutely brilliantly conceived and executed.

As i started this book, i said to my partner, "I always ALMOST really like Timothy Janovsky's books, but they feel like they are like 15% too ambitious. So i keep reading them even though they are always like 3.5 stars for me, because if he either edits the range of things he is trying to do SLIGHTLY down, or rises to meet them just a LITTLE BIT, then i know i will be so into them." (To be clear, i know i couldn't write anything nearly as good as his first drafts, i am sure, His books have just never quite worked for me.)

AND IT HAPPENED! I am so happy to announce that i really liked this book. Even though it's time slip romance with an unlikeable stand up comic as the POV character and a weird magic crystal mystery, which is a very heavy lift, it was a joy to read. The character growth felt genuine and meaningful and the stories all helped each other along. And i am truly thrilled to now be very excited for any book that TJ writes from here on out!

I was so excited when I saw this book because it sounded very similar to 13 Going on 30 which is a comfort movie. However, the moment I started reading, that excitement died.

Nolan wants to be a comedian and has a 7-year plan. At his sisters' wedding when he's basically given up on his dream, he gets the phone call. Cue Nolan leaving the wedding and his best friend he just kissed to do an opener (instant eye roll). Everyone in his life obviously had a reasonable reaction to his decision, and cut him off. That night he finds crystals (doesn't matter from where) that claim to manifest the future. He puts them under his pillow and the next day wakes up 7 years in the future. There he's famous and successful, but his best friend and family hate him, understandably.

The first 100 pages (aka the introduction part before the time skip) were absolute torture to get through. I hated it so much, especially Nolan and his decisions. I had to really push myself to read since I try to not DNF arcs.

When we finally get to the future, it was a much better read but also, anything would be better than the first third. Nolan goes through a whole character arc within a day, which made little sense to me. But objectively Nolan was much less annoying as a character so the book was readable although very predictable.

As for the romance, it was mediocre at best. Drew, from what I read, was a decent person and deserved better. Also, their chemistry wasn't there for me.

The last gripe for me was that, for a book about a comedian, this was aggressively unfunny. Especially Nolan's jokes.

Overall, I can understand why 90% of the other people who've read this got enjoyment out of this but personally, this was not for me.

Loved the time travel aspect of this book with the lessons for Nolan. I've got to say the way Nolan acted at the beginning was definitely not it for me. I enjoyed the journey of this book and the characters in it.

This was so cute! I was nervous that it would be too tropey, but I actually didn't think it was as heavily reliant on tropes as most other romance novels. I really liked the spin the author took on the waking-up-in-the-future premise and I loved seeing the character's journeys in both timelines.

Here's my main issue with this book: it's deeply, painfully unfunny.

A book about someone whose dream is to become a comedian needs to be funny. If the entire book isn't funny, at the VERY least the comedian character needs to be funny. He isn't, not even a little bit. He tells a Pizza Rat joke in 2023. After the time jump, when he's supposed to be a John Mulaney clone, we get to hear maybe three sentences of his stand-up special and it is SO painfully unfunny I almost quit reading entirely. The author could have made this character anything--an actor, a musician, whatever. WHY did he go with comedian when he can't tell a joke?

Everything Janovsky writes has this wonderful magic to it and his new book New Adult is no different!! I really enjoyed this book and the slow-burn friends to lovers as well as the moments where you sort of feel like the fourth wall is broken because of references to romance tropes on page that are happening to the characters at the same time. The start was a little slow and it was hard to like Nolan at first (though that is the point) but I loved his redemption arc and all the fun pop culture references. I also love that Timothy has such good ace-spec/demi rep in his books and I loved the conversations that Nolan and Drew had about attraction and intimacy.

I highly recommend this book, it's a fun whimsical story that has a lot of heart

Aw. This one gave me all the feels. New Adult is moving and wittty, and will make you cheer by the end. I loved the realness.

Thank you Netgalley and publisher for this advanced copy.

I've read Timothy Janovsky' book before and that was super cringey and bad.
Yet this one was better, but still cringey. It was an okay read for me.

“New Adult” is a frothy, silly, sweet confection of a book. Comped to “13 Going on 30” and “One Last Stop”, it features a love story wrapped in a tale of redemption – and honestly had a lot in common with Ebeneezer Scrooge’s Christmas Day mania at getting one last chance. Nolan Baker is a self-absorbed, ambitious comedian who is trying to climb the ranks and become famous, in love with his roommate, and a flake to his family. When he screws up big at his sister’s wedding, Nolan goes to sleep only to find himself in a world seven years later: and boy, what a nasty world it is. He’s famous, but a lonely jerk, and all his loved ones hate his guts. The plot that follows is a redemption tale as Nolan scurries to make amends to the people he’s wronged, and win back his roommate’s heart.

It’s cute! It’s deeply silly! Much like “One Last Stop”, you can’t think too hard about the magic in this book – it doesn’t, and won’t make sense, and it’s in service to the central trope. If that bothers you, it’s going to bother you here (and indeed, it bothered me in both. Worldbuilding is important to me!). Nolan is a jerk in the first 30% of the novel but comes around much too quickly on his redemption arc; it would have been much more interesting to have him initially resistant. Likewise, his love interest believes the time travelling angle pretty much immediately, removing a lot of the tension there.

In short, I liked this book, but it felt kind of underbaked.

This book was charming, funny, sweet, and so so gay. I loved it!!!! Timothy’s writing feels like a movie in my head.

I'm saddened to day i did not manage to finish this book
i always say i won't force myself to finish a book i don't like no matter how much i like the author or how popular the book is yet i almost did that in this case.
I'm not a fan of time travel, time lapse, dual timelines, you name it, i like my book in its present time thank you very much, so no matter how hard i tried, i just couldn't commit to the story regardless of how much i like the writing and the love interest (the main character not so much but i get that that's the point of the story)
i really need to start reading the blurb of the books I'm requesting i suppose

Absolutely enjoyed every single page of this book!

This was my first one from Timothy Janovsky, and believe me when I say I will be buying more of his work.

I feel like gay rom-com is very scarce and hard to find, let alone finding one I'd actually enjoy, so this was such a happy moment for me and I'm hoping so much that these type of literature becomes more mainstream.

New Adult was for me quite a light read, I did get invested in the characters and the story. I loved the bit of magic involved, which kind of prayed on my nostalgic movie plots from my teenage years.

There is a very fair amount of representation within the characters and I was so very pleased that I didn't come across any toxic gay stereotypes.

This is a 4 stars out of 5 for me. It only missed the mark a bit in actually making me feel I was 7 years ahead. Referring to Facebook Market in 2030 seemed like a risky bet, for example. By no means a show stopper however. I will definitely recommend this book!

Note: I received a complementary copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange of my fully honest review.

This was one of the best books I’ve ever read. 13 going on 30 vibes but gay and with crystals, honestly my perfect book. I loved every word of it and cannot recommend enough.

This book was FUN to read. One that made me dread having responsibilities that took me away from reading more than usual. I love a redemption arc, and I love an unlikable main character who has good growth. This has both and does it in such an enjoyable way.

It’s very much a “13 Going on 30” story, and it does what it says it’s going to when it comes to that. If you enjoy a good Christmas Carol/13 Going on 30/Freaky Friday story, but way more romance, or If you are a sucker for characters who are self professed romantics getting the love story they deserve, this is for you.

Thank you @netgalley for sending me an ARC of New Adult in exchange for an honest review!

This book surprised me, in a good way!
I was ecpecting nolan to remain a prick, but he had an amazing character development.
It sucks that no one takes Nolan's comedy serious, but in the beggining of the book, it's really not paying his bills, so I can understand why people think it's just a hobby and not a job.
Nolan was kind of unlikable, he didn't even know Harry was alergic to shell-fish. Harry was trying to make the relationship more solid, but Nolan was only interested in going to his sister's wedding and sex. He even missed part of his sister's weddig for a comedy show. I understand that it's his dream and he has the right to choose his career first, but he can't expect other people to not be upset. Just because his career is his priority doesn't mean that he doesn't have to deal with the consequences, and one of them is his family being upset.
But thanks to Doop, a shady company his sister works for, that creates magical items, he's transported into the future with magic crystals. There he learns that words are important, they can hurt people and that family is what matters most.He grows into someone who's able to form meaningful connections and maintain them.
Doop is avery interesting company, they played the long game on Nolan and I'd love to know more about them!
Nolan and Drew's relationship is incredibly sweet and I loved seeing Nolan fix what he had broken and starting to understand that he can't take Drew for granted.
Lucille is a great side character! She helps Nolan with no judgement. They had a strong connection in both timelines and I think she had an essential role in his story!

TW:drug use, sexual content, bullying.

Do you love the movie 13 Going on 30? Do you love queer love stories? How about a gorgeous combination of friends to lovers and second chance romance? READ. THIS. BOOK! Timothy Janovsky has such a way of completely immersing you in his stories. They are so delicious and easy to sink into in the most fantastic way. All I wanted to do every second that I wasn't reading this book was pick it back up and finish it as soon as possible. Its fast and funny and lovely and heart breaking and just overwhelmingly good.

This book really struck a chord with me, as there is about a decade of my life that I sometimes wish I could’ve skipped over to get where I am now. Of course, I understand that it was that broken road that led me here, but I certainly could relate with Nolan as far as that goes. This is my first book by Timothy Janovsky, and while the romantic element let me down just a little, I’ll still enjoyed the story from start to finish and will definitely take a look at his other works!