While I didn't enjoy this as much as James' first novel, it was still a solid read. Wasn't sure how she was going to tackle the time loop in a way that was different from what we've seen a million times before but she definitely did so. I appreciated that the person stuck wasn't the character whose POV we were following. It was also cool to pick up with this story so long into them repeating the day. The added layer of the father-child relationship was a surprise but added substance to the story.

Overall an enjoyable read. I'll definitely continue to seek out Holly James' work.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Groundhog Day meets Gemma and Jack!! This is a super cute and fun romance. Read it! You won’t be disappointed.

Thank you netgalley.

While it seems like this would just be another Ground Hog's Day (and nothing's wrong with that), I liked how this zeroed in on a single day in the time loop, as the past several months of days are revealed. Gemma uncharacteristically kisses a man at her best friend's birthday party. When she wakes up the next day, it's the same day, but she doesn't realize that until she bumps into a stranger at the coffee shop and feels an odd sense of deja vu. Jack has been working hard for several months for this moment of deja vu and proceeds to spend the day convincing Gemma that she is the key to his being able to move on to another day. Gemma's best friend Lila is a hoot, a great ride or die. I also liked the sense of family connections that rounded out the story.

The Deja Glitch was a fresh take on the time loop story we all know and love. Gemma is crashed into on her morning coffee run by a man that seems oddly familiar. After feeling a sense of deja vu all morning, Gemma entertains Jack's story that he's been stuck in a time loop and she's the key to getting him out of it.

I liked that this story was from the point of view of the person who wasn't necessarily the one stuck but the one who had to help that person. It feels like you usually get the opposite perspective in this type of story. I liked the nod to LA and the music industry and could have had even more of that part of the story including reconciling with her dad which was a big piece of her story that I felt got glossed over a little.

Overall if you enjoy a time loop story with romance, a meddling best friend and a grand gesture or two you'll like this one too.

Gemma and Jack are literally stuck in Ground Hog Day, the movie but in real life. When Gemma meets Jack, her neighbor, she feels like she had met him before but cannot quite grasp where. She spills coffee on him and that sets off a memory overfill and it is like she is on overload. Jack is trying to trigger memories for her. He has been wooing her for the past year trying to get past this same day and knows that if he can get her to fall in love with him the world will get back on it's axis. This is a quirky book and intriguing.

I love a time loop story and I liked that this one was the same day and all the looping happened off the page. If you can suspend disbelief and enjoy the romance then this might be the book for you! Loved the side plot of Gemma’s family too.

First of all, this cover is everythiiiiiiiiing! Sold me just on that.

I tend to enjoy Groundhog day type plots and when you add some romance to this?? I'm in. I really liked Jack and Gemma and they had good chemistry. The banter was also a bonus. I thought there may have been too much fluff and slightly too repetitive, but nonetheless I still enjoyed it.

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC.

You got drama, ex-drama and that Deja feeling! Super cute romance!!! This is a quick read that will keep you entertained!

📖My Thoughts📖

We all know those sappy lovey smooshy gooshy warm-hearted books that could never in a million years be realistic, but we can’t help but love oh so very much. For me, this was that book! I absolutely adored this book and then some! Don’t get me wrong, I love smut just as much as the next girl as well as the intense heart wrenching romance, but sometimes I just desire a good whole hearted “fairytalish” kind of book. I really enjoyed the storyline and the characters. This was a quick, fun, easy to read book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. If you are looking for a cute and fun contemporary romance book, I would suggest giving this one a whirl.
Thank you Netgalley, Holly James and Penguin Group Dutton for the opportunity to read and review this book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

I liked this book! It was very cleverly written and I love a good retelling of groundhogs day! It was a cute slow burn romance and I enjoyed the characters!

A cute romcom that didn't make me want to scream every five seconds... which seems to be an accomplishment nowadays.

One thing I wish we got was seeing at least one more day of Gemma and Jack having to interact - while we got to see the night of Lila's party that ended with a kiss transition into the next "same" day, I wish we had gotten just a bit more (aka show them knowing each other the whole day and then Gemma not remembering the next day) I feel like that would have added another layer that would have made the consequences feel more real. As it was, until they made sure to specify Gemma remembered the other 147 days at the end, I was convinced we were going to find out this was just a huge hoax.

Jack is a sweetheart, and I'm someone who likes the golden retriever type character... but he was almost too much for me to bear. Gemma had far more flaws and personality - Jack's personality was that he's in a time loop and loves Gemma. That's about it.

While I can suspend my disbelief for some aspects of the story (aka a time loop), a lot of the dialogue and interactions felt so fake that I found myself rolling my eyes (the airport, the live streams going viral, etc.). However, overall it was a cute read, so if you're looking for a quick palette cleanser, this is a decent choice.

Thank you to Dutton Books and NetGalley for the advanced copy of this book!
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This novel centers around a very Groundhog Day premise, with the main characters stuck in a time loop of the same day happening over and over again. But the major difference is that the reader isn’t staying with Jack who realizes that the day is constantly repeating. Instead, we are with Gemma who at best experiences a bit of deja vu. I really enjoyed the new take on this trope.
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That said, given that Jack had all of the time to fall in love with Gemma off the page, I had a very hard time finding their chemistry. Gemma was confused and disbelieving for much of the book, and once she did decide she believed what was happening, it felt like insta-love. I understand why we couldn’t spend more time with Jack, but there were so many things that he mentioned happening in previous versions of their days that I like I had been able to be shown instead of told.

I thought this book started off promising and went downhill from there. I think it was so much longer than it needed to be and I thought the author was wrapping up about three times throughout the second half of the book. The romance was not compelling to me in any way and I think the time loop was introduced way too soon. I almost DNFd this book so many times because it was such a slog to get through.

This book was very cute. The main characters were likable and I always love a Groundhog Day premise. My major issue is they didn’t repeat the day enough, if you are going to Groundhog Day, I want more days, not just being told there are more days. This is not spicy at all, just kissing. Overall I very much enjoyed it.

The first third of THE DEJA GLITCH had me totally invested. Then it fell apart.

The real problem with this book was it focused entirely on the time-loop portion of the story, and we got to know almost nothing about the main characters and they had almost no meaningful interactions with each other.

There was no romance beyond Jack constantly reiterating that he was meant to be with Gemma. But WHY? We never know. Jack never says one thing that he likes about her or why he feels like she's the only one for him or what interactions they have during the time loop that made him fall in love with her. NOTHING.

In fact, I felt like I knew both of these characters very little. And what I did know about Gemma was hard to like.

By the second half I was skimming over this story, hoping for some sort of romantic connection between Jack and Gemma, and it never came.

THE DEJA GLITCH is a book about a time-loop, not a book about falling in love with your soulmate.

One of my favorite tropes is a romance with a time loop. Seriously, I will pick them again and again and again. So, I was excited to read the Deja Glitch by Holly James. I had a good time, but it was missing something to make it a new favorite.

I thought Deja Glitch had a unique take on the time loop trope, as our POV (the female lead) doesn't know she is in a time loop. I found this to be an interesting way to tell the story. I enjoyed the couple, particularly their banter. I also liked the side characters, especially our female lead's best friend. However, I think the "bad guys" in the book were silly caricatures.

I would have liked a few more days in the loop, as most of the book takes place over one iteration of the loop. I get not wanting to make it repetitive, an often unfortunate side effect of a time loop, but I wanted a bit more.

Thank you to NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Dutton for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

I am such a sucker for a time loop books! They always have my full attention from the beginning to the end of the book and this book was exactly like that! Also how cute is the cover

This was a fun romcom with major Groundhog Day vibes.

Gemma, a radio show producer, crashes into Jack, a TV show writer one morning in a coffee shop. For Gemma it’s the first time they’ve met. For Jack, they’ve met over 100 times. Jack is stuck in a time loop and he believes he needs Gemma to fall in love with him to break that loop.

Recommended if you like:
-time loops
-50 First Dates movie
-entertainment industry (radio/TV/live music)
-closed door/no steam
-He falls first
-great banter
-a top tier bestie

The only downside is that since this book is set all in one day - it was a bit long in parts. It was also a bit predictable - buy hey sometimes you need an escape.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my review copy. The Deja Glitch is out now!

This was a cute rom com by a new-to-me author and I had a really fun time reading it. Gemma's life has not been going so well lately. She's working in the field that she loves, but not the job that she wants. Turns out her ex only used her to sidle up to her famous dad and jumpstart his own career. But when Gemma collides with Jack in a coffee shop, she thinks her luck might just be changing. Jack is cute and sweet and something about him is familiar, but that can't be, they just met, right? It turns out they are in a time loop and have lived this day multiple times. While Gemma doesn't remember meeting him, Jack remembers things all too clearly. In order for him to escape this time loop, all he needs to do is get Gemma to fall in love with him. Will he be able to succeed?
Time loop stories are such fun to read, and I really enjoyed this one. I liked seeing the growth of the characters as the plot progressed. Jack and Gemma were both charming characters and their dynamic just fit together perfectly. This was a very nice introduction for me to a new author and I look forward to reading more of her work!
I received a complimentary copy from Netgalley and am voluntarily leaving my review.

Holly James's sophomore rom-com The Deja Glitch is so delightful and adorable! I found myself breezing through it. Think of it as Groundhog Day through Andie MacDowell's perspective. I always wondered what it was like for people on the other side of someone's time loop and now I know!

I enjoyed getting to know Gemma and Jack throughout what was hopefully going to be Jack's last round of the time loop...if he got everything right with Gemma, that is. The supporting characters were a lot of fun and I especially enjoyed seeing someone get their just desserts. I like that the story centered around music and I wish I could have known what song Gemma kept hearing all the time.

If you read Holly's debut, Nothing But the Truth, there's a small cameo in this one from the main character of that novel. (More like a mention, really.)

Some aspects reminded me of What You Do to Me by Rochelle Weinstein (both main characters live in L.A., have difficult relationships with their fathers, and work in the music industry--as do their fathers). I actually read that book shortly after this one, which enhanced the parallels for me, but they're completely different stories otherwise.

All I really need to say is that you will want to pick up this time travel romance ASAP! It's so easy to devour too.

Movie casting suggestions:
Gemma: Emma Roberts
Jack: Robbie Amell
Lila: Alexandra Shipp
Patrick: Ryan Lee
Roger (Gemma's dad): Rob Lowe