Today Tonight Tomorrow
Reviews
"it's ridiculous, yes, but it's also so damn sweet" pretty much sums up how i felt about this book
as vezes eu fico carente
This was delightful. And I am here to announce the Dylan McKay curse persists
Contemporary YA, clever and nuanced and fun. A treat from beginning to end.
this was genuinely so cute:(
spent like half the book internally screaming me and who
This is such a cute book!!!! A very light quick read. I didn’t actually feel the rivalry of the characters; it wasn’t the academic enemies to lovers book I was hoping for. Nevertheless, it was still a very good book. The storyline of Rowan falling in love gets me giddy, and the overall story gave me butterflies.
i might liking this a little too much. enemies to lovers? mhm. ACADEMIC RIVALS? MHM! i love how they discover more about themselves and each other being in the scene.
academic rivals to lovers! this was endearing and cute... since the story happens around the characters' graduation, i thought it would be fun to read this book after i graduated high school. my rating might be biased because there were parts about feeling the uncertainty of leaving everything you've grown used to that kinda hit close to home... the setting was cool (i love it when people run around and explore the city hehe), and i think the characters felt real. the dialogue was natural and there were actually things that the characters said that i swear i've heard a friend (or honestly myself) say before. there were only a couple of instances where i cringed but i don't know if that was me or the book LOL... it was also cool to read about how they connected over their cultures and supported each other. i think the story also had an appreciative view of the romance genre, books and words in general~
3.75 but rounding up to 4 My first read of 2024!
academic rivals will always be my game
3.5 stars
This was my first ever read that got me into willingly reading in the first place, i thought it was too slow at first but the ending was so worth it because it was just UGH SO GOOD i have a soft spot for this book.
this is everything i want in a book! like they both don't need the stereotype richest of the richest w overly good visuals WHICH MAKES IT SO MUCH REALISTIC! like for those who only want a wholesome love w/o having to be ashamed of your insecurities (and finding someone to love you despite of your flaws) THIS IS DEFINITELY FOR YOU NDJDKCKF IT'S SO FREAKING GOOD
★★★★☆ (4) “But sometimes I get this strange feeling, an ache not for something I miss, but for something I've never known"
i liked how the culture and religion is told here and rowan's novel. it's true when people ask you what's your favorite book genre then you told them that it's romance and they make fun of you. it's always the people who don't read books who makes fun of what genre we read. somehow in this novel we readers are understood. they're both overachievers i like that about them.
so when am I having my own academic rivals to lovers trope ?
easy read. cliche plot . an okay book
academic rivals to lovers trope on top
3.5 starst, i enjoyed it. been a whle since the last time i read young adult novel and this one's pretty refreshing. look forward to read more from this author.
rachel lynn solomon has such a crazy way of taking all the aspects of my favorite literary relationships and combining them into one. now if u’ll excuse me i have to go re-read every anne of green gables book 😌
I love this book! It's so simple yet so warming
it was good, simple high school drama, crazy that they unpack so much to each other in one night and did not explain how their relationship was going to be during college but okay sure and yay for jewish representation
Always in for a good academic rivals to lvers.
Highlights
“…there is so much out there beyond high school, so much that I cannot possibly begin to wrap my mind around.”
“I don’t know if we’re going to be okay in college. But we have the summer, and after that, we’ll try our best. I can be content with that for now.”
“I want to leave so bad, and yet…I get worried that I’m not as independent as I think I am.”
“I just wish it didn’t have to end right now…I wish I had more time.
It's not until I say it out loud that I realize it's true. Time. That's what I've been chasing all day, this notion that after tonight, after graduation, none of us will be in the same city again. The things that mattered to us for the past four years will shift and evolve, and I imagine theyll keep doing that forever. It's terrifying.”
“…googling “ how to break into a library” because we are nothing if not resourceful.”
“We’re breaking into the library.”
lol
“It’s hard to admit that you think you’re good at something creative.”
“That’s what Howl is becoming: a goodbye to high school and the boy who drove me bonkers for most of it.”
“If he’s there, I won’t feel like I can fully be myself, though I’m unsure who that person is, the one who’s able to love what she loves without shame.”
“On Monday morning, I want to walk right back into home room with Mrs. Kozlowski, debate with McNair during AP Government, joke with Mara and Kilby at lunch. I’m not ready for the world beyond Westview yet.”
“…the longer I stay in the game, the longer I remain in high school, the longer I don’t have to face the reality that I didn’t turn into the person my fourteen-year-old self wanted to be.”
“I’m thinking about how I used to tell them everything, and yet they don’t know I’m writing a book. Mara’s pursuing an artistic career too, but we all know she’s a great dancer. There’s plenty of video evidence. All I could do to back myself up would be a ring whispered confession: I think I could be good at this.”
“The four of them have an ease to their interactions that makes me wonder again what’s happening to all of them after graduation. If they all spend this summer together before autumn obliterates them, or if they’ll stay in touch after that.”
“It’s weird and it’s gross and I absolutely love it.”
i wanna go to the gum wall so badly haha
“(Madison Winters, who wrote a lot of stories about shape-shifting foxes in my creative writing class-one or two, fine, but seven?)”
there was a girl in my creative writing class that was writing like a full on book about a fox that could talk and her name was Madison!
“…I…want something big and wild, something that fills my heart completely.
…
I’m convinced that when you’re with the right person, every date, every day feels that way.”
“Maybe I’m too difficult to love.”
“…he asked if I was free on Saturday. It was October, so we went to a pumpkin patch, got lost in corn maze, and sipped hot chocolate from the same cup.”
ugh why can’t something even as simple as that happen to me:(
“…my days with them are, quite literally, numbered on the calendar in my room…”
“‘No math. Schools over.’”
“I used to go to school with these guys, I think, because after today, it will be true. Seattle will be full of used-to-be’s.”
“There are no more Mondays. No more spirit days or student council meetings. No 5:55 alarms or even earlier McNightmare wake-up calls. And it’s not that I’ll miss the wake-up calls specifically—they were just wrapped up in my whole high school experience.
The bottom line is this: every time I pictured today, I felt a while lot better than I do right now.”
“‘Strange to think about it all going on without us.’
‘I know. Like, does Westview exist without us here?’”
“‘I don’t know if it’s sunk in yet for me. I’m half convinced I’ll show up at school on Monday.”
it’s Monday for me and it’s weird to not be a high school student anymore…I can confirm.