xennicole's reviews
2180 reviews

I am glad I waited for a library copy. If I spent my money on this, I would have been more disappointed.
Plot was silly, but then again a magic landline phone to 1998 is silly. I thought the conversations would two sided that both characters would somehow be themselves, but the phone only worked one-way, which ended my suspending belief in the story. Georgie's profession and how it was written was done poorly and only to serve as an issue and was not fleshed out enough. I didn't laugh or find much of anything funny in the story.

I mostly felt sad for the characters.

Okay, but nothing amazing happened.

I won this by way of First Reads.

I read this in just under 4 hours. Just finished it moments ago. It was a good novel. Midwestern. I grew up and currently live in Minnesota, so imagining this small town was almost too easy for me. I just have to open my door and a drive a few miles to the nearest small town. The characters were believable. It was just a good coming of age in your thirties novel.

I read from various places and from other GoodReads reviews that this sort of follows Bon Iver (Justin Vernon), and that the author went to high school with him. I did listen to Bon Iver and The Civil Wars while reading and it was a perfect background noise to the novel.