About the Book
To break out of a 24-hour time loop, all Jack needs is for Gemma to fall in love with him in a single day. All Gemma needs is to remember him first . . .
Gemma Peters is doing fine. She’s making a name for herself in the L.A. music biz as a radio producer. She’s got a ride-or-die best friend in Lila, and she gets to come home to Rex, her loving Labrador, every night. But ever since her rock star ex-boyfriend used her to get a record deal from her rock legend dad, she’s made a “no musicians” rule when it comes to dating that’s becoming more like a “no dating” rule, period.
So, when Gemma crashes (literally) into Jack one Thursday morning, at first she feels like fate might finally be doing her a favor. After all this guy is cute and, wait, is she imagining it, or is he staring a little too deeply into her eyes? And how does he know her name? Even harder to explain is the funny feeling of déjà vu she gets every time she looks at him. It’s not at all like Gemma to kiss a man and forget him completely, so then how can she explain the dreamlike memory of his lips on hers?
The truth is this is no ordinary Thursday. Not for them. In fact, they’ve lived this day over and over for months. And while Gemma has been totally oblivious to the time loop, Jack has been agonizingly aware of every single iteration. Luckily, Jack has a theory to bring his own personal Groundhog Day to an end. And it’s simple. Before the day is over, he just has to get Gemma to fall in love with him.
My Review
Talk about instantly hooked. I love a little magical realism in my novels, and when I read that Gemma Peters is trying to believe the guy she just met, Jack, is stuck in a time loop and she’s actually been on over one hundred dates with him but never remembers him the next day – well, I was invested. Gemma wakes up one morning and feels a little … off. She swears she had the exact same conversation with her neighbor the day before, but between her best friend’s birthday celebrations and hoping her brother actually gets flight after several delays to come see her, she has other things to worry about then a sense of deju vu. But when she crashes into Jack on a Thursday morning and he rushes to explain his theory to her – Gemma has to fall in love with him in one day for the time loop to be broken – Gemma’s whole world is tossed upside down. Could it possibly be true? And how could love really save them from repeating the same day over and over and over again?
I did not want to put this down for anything – I was reading while applying my face mask, on the treadmill at the gym, and while eating my breakfast. I had to know if they could break the time loop, and if Gemma would ever remember all her dates with Jack. I enjoyed the secondary plots as well – from Gemma’s relationship with her brother to tension with her father, the drama of her ex-boyfriend, and even Gemma’s dog was a cute little addition. I also loved the relationship between Gemma and her best friend Lila, and how invested Lila was in her friend’s happiness. Overall it was an adorable rom com that brought me so much joy to read and I hope it will for you too!
5 stars
