By Lynn Painter.
This book is laugh-out-loud, page-turning perfection.
High school junior Emilie Hornby is a planner. She’s scheduled the perfect Valentine’s Day because love is for planners (only suckers leave love to fate) and her boyfriend, Josh Sutton, is perfect for her (he earns a checkmark in all the boxes). But her plans go awry, starting when she bumps into surly Nick Stark from chemistry class on the way to school (she rear-ends his truck with her van and her ride goes up in flames). She misses her gift exchange with Josh, and then—can it get any worse?—she finds Josh making out in his car with Macy Goldman. Yet something worse does enter the picture: her dad announces he is moving his family (her stepmom and stepbrothers) to Houston Texas and hadn’t planned to take her with them. It’s time to take refuge at her grandmother’s for the night and end this horrible day.
When her alarm goes off the next morning, everything feels oddly familiar. She’s not at Grandma’s. She’s in her own bed, and the calendar hasn’t budged. It’s still February 14, and she’s repeating Valentine’s Day. A fender bender with Nick, a confrontation with Josh and Macy, her dad’s announcement about Houston. She’s stuck in an endless loop. Every day is a do-over, and she tries again and again to get things just right so she can move forward. Is Josh the one who can make her Valentine’s Day perfect and launch her into February 15? Or does the solution depend on Nick?
It’s so much fun to follow Emilie and Nick as she navigates this “love day” nightmare and he accompanies her through every do-over until she finally lives the best Valentine’s Day ever.
(Published in 2022 by Simon & Shuster BFYR.)
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One of my favorite reads, “The Do-Over,” is a fun twist on Valentine’s Day. A YA romance by Lynn Painter.
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