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Love the premise, didn't love the execution. I felt like I was always being taught a lesson. And honestly I want to know what happened to Brendan. I enjoyed most of the stuff with Ramie and her dad, as I'm a daddy's girl myself.Jen Lancaster's Here I Go Again is the same type of story, but way more fun. Ramie seemed so confused and scared by being back in high school (as I'm sure one would be scared to time travel 20 years in the past), but in Here I Go Again, Lissy had fun with it, and actually did things differently. Again, I just felt like Ramie was looking for life lessons around every corner, and nothing really came of her time traveling. Both of her best friends are about to become parents and aren't going to have as much time for her anymore. Give her a few months and she probably would have opened up the dating website without the whole going back in time thing.
Not a terrible book, but if someone were to ask me for a fun time-travel-back-to-high-school book I'd recommend Jen Lancaster's story before this one.
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If I Could Turn Back Time Beth Harbison Orlagh Cassidy 9781427267634 Books Reviews
I got bored with it, it was hard to tell the span of days or weeks she was 18 again. I would not recommend it. I liked her other books better!
I loved how her father communicated with her after he died. I also loved how she went back in time and changed her life choices and saw what her future would have looked like if she'd chosen a different path. I loved that she figured out she liked the life she first chose and met the man for her with her father's help. A great read! I definitely recommend it.
A special thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Beth Harbison delivers a poignant and witty story of a woman’s journey back to the past, IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME, coming in paperback June 14, 2016 (with a new 83/18 cupcakes adorable cover). Readers will go back to revisit their younger years, for a thought- provoking look at the people in our lives, choices, and questions, of what if.
“Sometimes – some rare times—when a soul has left in its own time, it leaves a love one wholly unprepared. Missing some of the most important lessons that were meant to be shared.”
“Can a soul find it’ way back to communicate in a less subtle way? To remind their loved one of those things they must know in order to find their own fate."
The night before Ramie Phillips; thirty-eighth birthday, she is on a boat (yacht) off the coast of Miami, Florida-- like something you would see on the cover of Conde’ Nast Traveler or other luxury magazine.
She did not grow up rich, In her youth she enjoyed a happy Charlie Brown landscaped middle class life in Potomac, Maryland, close to the DC border. She grew up loving math and her dad was a banker. When she was five her dad taught her about the stock market and how to track a portfolio. He taught her how to invest.
Thanks to her dad, she had a nice little nest egg for herself before she hit it big working with Whitestone, one of the top private equity investment firms in the country.
A daddy’s girl, her Dad died unexpectedly halfway through her college education. He smoked three packs of cigarettes a day, then a stroke. She thought he would be around forever and in her life. He was to be a grand dad. Her mom had always feared his upcoming death. Her mom had a hard time; however, Ramie came through for her investing her life insurance so she could live off the dividends.
Skip to the boating event, as the book opens, with champagne, cocktails, friends and a little too much to drink. Her friend just found out she is pregnant. Here she is, close to forty years old and now she is feeling sorry for herself. Her big birthday bash, had been overshadowed by toasts and congratulations for Lisa’s unexpected pregnancy.
What happened in her life from ages eighteen to thirty-eight?
She knows she is feeling like a baby. Beings selfish. Could she have known her previous partner in crime (herself) might feel a little weird about being ambushed by the news of her total acquiescence to domestication. She knew her friend would never be fun anymore. She tells her she is happy and begins to dwell on her situation. She has a nice life and career, but no personal life. She is not happy. She had been left behind. She had made mistakes.
Soon she dives off the boat and all she remembers is pain, and everything going black.
She wakes up in her childhood room. Dream or not, this was a moment in her life where she would get a second chance, with someone she had loved and lost. However, she is trying to talk about things in the future and her dad is of course still alive. Her mom thinks she is getting ready to go to school.
Now she finds herself back in time to the eve of her eighteenth birthday. Will she be able to change her decisions, and get what she wants from the past for her future?
Harbison always combines wit, emotion, and some tough life lessons. We all wish we could have a redo; and regret many things in our past, and questions of "what if" we had made a different decision, or choices back when,--- how would my life be different today. A journey of a thirty-eight year-old woman with her insight into the future and in her current role as age eighteen.
Thought-provoking! Makes you take a step back and appreciate those in your life. For Fans of In Twenty Years and The Year We Turned Forty as well as time traveling. I am normally not a fan of time travel; however this one was done really well.
For all you wondering why I am just now reviewing this book. I read it last year, and realized when reading an advanced reading copy of her upcoming new book, One Less Problem Without You, (great read), Coming July 26, 2016, was referring back to link to the review, and discovered I failed to write the review. (my bad)!
Quickly did a recap, since still on my , and even purchased the audiobook, narrated by Orlagh Cassidy for a fun time-travel trip. Guess my review, will be “timely for the paperback”, coming June.
I do not read as much chick-lit, as I did in my younger years; however, always enjoy Harbison’s books. She was initially the one to turn me on to the genre with her funny audiobooks. Always tons of fun, wit, and humor-and much more than fluff –there is depth, life, emotions, and so much more!
On a different note Would like to take this opportunity to highlight St. Martin’s Press and compliment the team on all the beautiful covers! The Beth Harbison name is branded by her covers, and each and every one pulls you in to her character’s world. They are perfect. A cover can make, or break a book in my opinion, and all St. Martin’s Press’ covers are first-class- one of my favorite publishers.
Be sure and move, One Less Problem Without You to the top of your list! (just finished it and "promise" to write my review before Tues. pub date). You will love the Cosmo chic cover, the three gals whose lives connect, a bad guy, teas, and "Diana’s Drinks" with 30-yummy cocktail recipes at the end of the book. Need I say more?
Dream, imagine, play with thoughts and after going on this journey with Beth Harbison's lead, it might just be possible to find your own vehicle to TURN BACK TIME. A must read for the adventuresome to find out what happens when given a chance. It doesn't have to be by accident.
I loved all of the description of being a teenager in the 90's. It took me back to my high school days and it made me smile and laugh. It got repetitive after a while and the wrap up was quick and cliche.
a total 'chick flick' book....easy to read, it's about that universal thought we all have about what our lives might have been like had we done something different married someone else, gone to a different college, turned right and not left. But there was no insight, message, lesson or observation about time...life.....choices....etc. It was like a Hallmark Christmas movie. Entertaining , but hollow.
While I would never call Beth Harbison's work great literature, I have read several other Beth Harbison books and enjoyed them as quality chick lit. Ms. Harbison is a talented and entertaining author. If I Could Turn Back Time just wasn't her best work. When I read the premise, I was excited and bought it to read on a plane (my favorite time to read chick lit) but it didn't hold my attention and about a third of the way through, I did something I rarely do --- put it down and found a different book to read instead of finishing it.
If you haven't read Thin, Rich, Pretty or Chose the Wrong Guy, Gave Him the Finger, or Always Something to Remind Me, save your time and read one of those instead.
Love the premise, didn't love the execution. I felt like I was always being taught a lesson. And honestly I want to know what happened to Brendan. I enjoyed most of the stuff with Ramie and her dad, as I'm a daddy's girl myself.
Jen Lancaster's Here I Go Again is the same type of story, but way more fun. Ramie seemed so confused and scared by being back in high school (as I'm sure one would be scared to time travel 20 years in the past), but in Here I Go Again, Lissy had fun with it, and actually did things differently. Again, I just felt like Ramie was looking for life lessons around every corner, and nothing really came of her time traveling. Both of her best friends are about to become parents and aren't going to have as much time for her anymore. Give her a few months and she probably would have opened up the dating website without the whole going back in time thing.
Not a terrible book, but if someone were to ask me for a fun time-travel-back-to-high-school book I'd recommend Jen Lancaster's story before this one.
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