You cannot tell me that you read the synopsis of this book and don’t immediately want to know what’s going on.

I feel like, honestly, that’s the one true failing of this book. I don’t know if it’s just me, but when I read books that have some sort of magical, fantasy-esque aspect to them, I want to focus on the plot. I want to know why this is happening and what the characters do to overcome this.

But this book was a little more character driven. A little more contemporary romance.

I’m not saying this wasn’t a fun read. The middle section of this book–most of what this book is all about–is the main characters doing a bunch of crazy stuff just because they can. From handing out free ice cream to adopting a bunch of dogs to turning the school’s pool into one giant ball pit and everything in between. I can appreciate that the characters have so much growth in so little time–heh–because they don’t have to care about the consequences of their actions. This room to figure out who they are and what matters to them in life really helps make a big difference between who they are in the beginning of the book versus who they are in the end of the book.

However, I couldn’t help but look at all these wacky hijinks and think “that’s cool, but why are they stuck in a time loop?” “That’s cool, but how do they get out?”

I think it was entirely on me that I couldn’t get into this book as much as I feel I should. There are definitely people out there who are going to read this book and think the experience is the best thing that will ever happen to them. But I think I expected a different story out of this book, and it’s definitely not the book’s fault that it didn’t deliver.

There was something about this one that grabbed me from the get-go. I don’t usually love a time-loop/Groundhogs Day story line, but this one blew me out of the water. One of the first thoughts I had as I read this one was that the banter reminded me of Gilmore Girls (it’s my favorite). Then, halfway through the book, Solomon references what is [without a doubt] the *best* Gilmore Girls episode. While I was already sold on the book, that just further cemented my love for it.

I fell in love with Barrett & Miles. I loved that they were the true main focus. The supporting characters’ roles were kept to a minimum, which really helped the main characters story line come to life. They are flawed and young and just trying to figure out this thing called life, and I loved being on the journey with them.

This book made me reflect back on my time as a college freshman. While this book is definitely intended for a YA audience, it also captures the attention of an older audience. I couldn’t help but be transported back to my college days, especially that tricky freshman year where you’re adjusting to life as an independent young adult without your family and HS friends close by. So much nostalgia.

I loved it. Couldn’t put it down. This was easily my favorite book by Solomon & I can see why so many other reviews all sing this book’s praises.

Barrett Bloom goes in to her first day of college optimistic, determined, hopeful. The day does not go as planned, but when she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself living her first day of college, again. She soon learns that her classmate, Miles, is also stuck in this time loop and has been for months.

With only each other to lean on, Barrett and Miles live countless days in hopes of figuring out the trick to getting out of the loop and back to their regularly scheduled programming.

This book took me by surprise. I loved the relationship between Barrett and Miles, and seeing them both grow over their first day of college. This book beautifully shows that nothing every goes quite the way you expect or intend. It's okay to be a little odd and have quirks as long as you grow and maybe open your mind a little!

Book Review!
See you yesterday by @rlynn_solomon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I really loved this book! It’s a YA book, which I haven’t read it a long time but it was adorable and funny. Barrett and Miles start out as enemies and they soon realize they are the same time loop living the same day over and over again. It has humor and is such a sweet love story! I highly recommend! Thanks @netgalley and @simonandschuster for the early copy! Book is out May 17th! #bookstagram #book #bookrecommendations #booklover #bookreview #bookromance #yabooks #love #bookshelf #netgalleygoals

Thank you so much to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster for approving me for this ARC.

This was my first Rachel Lynn Solomon book, and it did not disappoint. It definitely makes me want to go back and read her other books, especially seeing Weather Girl all over booksta. I really loved this novel. I love the Groundhog Day feel of it. I love that there was Jewish rep in this book. (I'm not Jewish, I'm Catholic, but being on booksta and working in a Temple, made me realize there's not much Jewish rep in many books, and it made me happy to read more about their religion!) Barrett and Miles are two messy people who find solidarity between each other. They are sarcastic, fun to be around, and very relatable characters. I really, really love them together. The only reason why I didn't give this book five stars is because the book felt LONG. There's only so much you can do with a time loop situation, and it just started feeling very repetitive in the middle. The topic of finding the professor was a little thrown all over the place. They mentioned her, and then you didn't hear about her until almost the end of the book. It felt like the author was never going to get around to it again. I almost threw my kindle though with that ending   I really thought she had me there for a second. It would have been a very interesting ending though. I can't wait to go back to read Rachel's other books!

Thank you to #NetGalley, Rachel Lynn Solomon for the ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This was my first Rachel Lynn Solomon book and I LOVED it!!

Barrett is off to college after a disastrous last semester of high school. She is ready for a clean slate and a new start. September 21st starts out like any other college day for Barrett. A know-it-all in one of her classes, a horrible interview for the school paper, and then a fraternity party that literally catches on fire. All Barrett wants to do is go to bed and forget the day. Unfortunately or lucky for her, she wakes up the next day and finds out it is September 21st again. Soon she finds out that know-it-all in her class, Miles, is stuck in this same time loop as well and he has been here even longer. She agrees to work with him to see if they can fix it and get to September 22.

I am a fan of the movie "Groundhogs Day" and I think that what made me love this book so much. I also liked the two main characters Barrett and Miles. They both had issues they had dealt with but where able to work with and talk to each other about them to see how they could deal with or fix those issues.
The only thing I did not like about this book was all the F-bombs. Other than that it was a great book!

(RECEIVED AS AN ARC THROUGH NETGALLEY)
So I read The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon and absolutely fell in love with her writing style. Rundown for SYY: two college students, who are strangers, learn that they are stuck in a time loop to relive the same day over and over, a la Groundhog Day. We have Miles Kasher-Okamoto, an absolute adorable physics dweeb who is determined to learn anything and everything he can (oh and he has a hopeless crush on Barrett Bloom). Now onto Barrett Bloom, chaotic, sarcastic, and secretly, deep down, absolutely soft and in need of love. These two seemingly should not go together, but of course, that's exactly why they do. Solomon has an extreme skill for making fucking fantastic characters. Both Miles and Barrett are funny and flawed and R E A L. At times it felt like Solomon reached into my brain and plucked Barrett's subconscious from my own: "I'd emerge the same person I've always been. The person who uses sarcasm and nonchalance as armor." Ouch. Too real. I loved that book felt well-balanced. What I mean to say is there was enough background plot about researching the time loop and the dynamics of that, paired with Miles and Barrett getting closer to one another and having fun together.

I love how this book addresses so many issues and topics that haunt me every day as an undergrad: what it means to live life to the fullest, how we value our time and our relationships, how college allegedly changes you, and what that change looks like. This book is definitely geared towards a younger adult audience/maybe even an older teen audience. It's sort of fade to black? But not for lack of explicit language (and thoughts, yes Barrett, those are explicit thoughts).

One of my favorite reads of this year by far! Can't wait to get my hands on a physical copy :)

Are you a Groundhog Day fan? I’ve watched it so many times I could (but try not to) recite the dialogue. It’s true; I’m like a Rocky Horror fan without the costumes. The magic of this movie comes from watching it again and again. Yes, that’s a meta-commentary on the movie itself. The beauty of experiencing Phil’s range of emotion – disbelief, despair, hopelessness, grief – is profound, probably more so because Bill Murray plays the character elegantly. It's nearly a perfect movie – good the first time but better and better with each rewatch.

See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon is something of a Groundhog Day retelling. I jumped at the chance to read this book – perhaps unfairly since I had a lot of expectations and preconceived notions about how the story would go.

Surprisingly, I was not disappointed. As with the movie, I found myself initially not loving Barrett Bloom. (I love this name so much.) My dislike of her stemmed (pun intended) not from her messiness or mouthiness or imperfection but from her blistering moments of unkindness. She has reasons.

Author Solomon does a masterful job of letting us into Barrett’s world, encouraging us to get to know her (as we got to know Bill Murray’s Phil) in the same fashion that Barrett gets to know her time-loop “nemesis,” Miles. (I actually disagree with the nemesis label used in the promos but I can’t really go into that without spoiling the story. You’ll just have to read it. We can debate afterwards.)

Isn’t it frustrating when a story arc doesn’t allow the protagonist to grow? In See You Yesterday, we actually get to experience Barrett’s grief and her realization that she’s capable of addressing her history (again, no spoilers!). It doesn’t take her the 33 years that it takes Phil but then again Barrett is a young Jewish woman. She’s already got so much more going for her than Phil had (sorry, Phil, but FACTS).

The story is told from Barrett’s POV which is likely the reason Miles feels a little underdeveloped. We just don’t get the chance to know him as well. That’s a disappointment because he seems very, very worth knowing. He’s stuck in the time loop with Barrett and actually spends more time looping than she does but we don’t really get to know why. Although I don’t love multiple POVs in first person stories, I think I would have liked it in this instance, just to give us more of Miles’ backstory.

Regardless, Miles is an absolutely delightful character. He’s also deeply grieving – though, again, it’s a little hard to see that – and he’s also got a secret that he holds onto for most of the story. Whether or not he should have kept the secret is another point for us to debate later. It’s well-done and made me like him even more.

This book comes out May 17, 2022. Pre-order from an indie bookstore if you can.

I received a digital ARC from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

[Note: per your request, this review is scheduled to go live on my blog -- bookbuzzblog.com -- on April 17, 2022, at 12:01AM.]

The characters in this book are wonderfully drawn and I didn’t want the book to end. I’ve only read Weather Girl by the author, but after 2 five stars reads for me, she’s an auto buy, and I’ll be catching up on her older titles. I love characters that are a little snarky and talk to the reader, and it’s done so well!

i am OBSESSED with our mc. she’s hilarious and sarcastic and dry humored and exactly the kind of person i’d like to be friends with. (sarcasm to deflect your real emotions anybody ? 😭) miss solomon’s humor is always a hit. this had me laughing out loud all throughout the book, with me at one point my eyes were welling up

the “ground hog day” concept gave it a fun twist and i loved how miles and barrett were stuck together and had to figure out how to get back to their timeline! it made for such a lovable and amusing read i couldn’t put down!

Miles has my entire heart, and his and Barrett’s development was everything 🥺 whatta perfect book boyfriend! his sarcasm and banter with Barrett was immaculate and they are truly one of my absolute favorite rls couples hands down 🙌

thank you to netgalley and simon and schuster for an ARC

As a long time fan of RLS, I was overjoyed to get my hands on this book early (it was one of my most anticipated reads of the year!) And it might just be one of my favorite RLS novels yet! See you yesterday follows Barrett Bloom, a college freshman trying to pave a way for her future career in journalism. And as I’m sure some of us can relate, her first day at her college goes anything but smoothly. However, upon waking up the next day, she realizes the impossible has happened — she’s repeating the previous day, in a cyclical loop. Luckily for Barrett, she’s not the only one stuck in this cycle; Miles, a peer from her physics class, also is stuck in the impossible. As the two work together to unravel what’s happened and to find their way back on a forward moving timeline, they grow close together and begin to cross the line from friendship to more.

I really enjoyed this book from start to end. Barrett is a funny and endearing protagonist, and much of her monologue made me laugh. I loved seeing her work through what happened to her in the past, while evolving in the present. Her relationship with Miles was so much fun to read. Their chemistry was popping off the page, and seeing a true slowburn in action have a magnificent payoff was well worth it. If you like college stories, physics, lovable protagonists and slowburn (x1000), this book is for you. 4/5 stars!

Thank you so much to Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing and NetGalley for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review

All I really have to say here is that Rachel Lynn Solomon is a romance God. I will be thinking about this book before I fall asleep for the foreseeable future.

I wasn't sure what to expect from this book but I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome and how much I really liked it. The story, much like a college/New Adult version of Groundhog Day, follows Barrett and Miles who have somehow gotten stuck in a time loop and are forced to relive their disastrous first day of college. It's full of compelling language that intrigued me and sucked me in. I was just so curious to learn more about what happened and how they could possibly fix it. The protagonists are equally authentic and vulnerable as leading players.

Rachel Lynn Solomon does it again. Time travel romances are always fun and Rachel put such a cute spin on the tropes involved with SEE YOU YESTERDAY. I loved this book, from the plot to the fun characters and the fun antics that went on throughout the chapters. As always, Rachel did a great job with representation, which is always a plus especially with contemporary novels. I'm looking forward to her next! Full review will hopefully be on bookstagram soon!

“Somehow, we were able to move forward while we were standing still.”

This book is delightful! I’m a big fan of the movie Groundhog Day which is both referenced in and similar to this YA story by Rachel Lynn Solomon. College freshman Barrett and Miles are stuck in a time loop reliving their first day at the University of Washington.

The romantic trope of nemesis to friends to lovers is executed so perfectly in this book that I enjoyed every iteration of their relationship knowing that they would eventually fall in love.

Like all of Solomon’s books, there is diverse and authentic representation including, Jewish and Jewish Asian characters, queer characters, as well as people dealing mental health issues. There are so many great messages in this book – especially about learning to love yourself and find people who see the real you and love you for all that you are. It may sound corny but it made me laugh and smile. I also loved the relationship between Barrett and her mother – it reminds me about my relationship with my daughter.

I recommend this sweet and magical story to anyone who wants to relive the feeling of being on the cusp of adulthood with the endless possibilities of how your life can turn out stretched out before you..

Thank you to Simon & Schuster and Net Galley for the e-ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book is as delicious as Mozzarella sticks, New York bagels, and chocolate chip cookies the size of your face! I loved Barrett and Miles! This new adult book is one that will be cherished. The magical realism and physocs of it all draw you in immediately.

I am rarely dissatisfied with a Rachel Lynn Solomon book. See You Yesterday is an adorable contemporary romance!!

3.5 stars. This was a cute, new-adult time loop story that had some surprisingly heavy topics discussed. I think the author did a credible job covering them and it gave a somewhat fluffy story a bit of weight. The relationship development was interesting and the characters quirky. The author did a great job of making a repeating day not feel repetitive, as happens in so many other time loop stories.

So first, why is Rachel Lynn Solomon such a good writer? I loved this!

Barrett Brown and Miles are stuck reliving the same day. Together. At first they don’t know each other but then, as time passes, they become closer and closer, the only ones who can share in their experience. They were super adorable and Barrett is so relatable. This story had a lot of heart and Solomon finds a way to take the time loop genre and make it different everyday. It’s a hilarious, heart-warming read you won’t want to miss!

See You Yesterday is a cute, time-loop romance. It is set during the main characters' first week in college, which makes it great for older teen readers who might be thinking about what comes after high school. The characters are quirky and likable, and even though the same day repeats, each adventure is different enough that the reader stays interested.