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Today Tonight Tomorrow (Rowan & Neil, #1)

Rachel Lynn Solomon

Start date: December 4, 2022

Finish date: December 31, 2022

Discussion: Stand Alone

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Jul 08, 2022 Michael rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2022, audio-book, young-adult, summer-reading-2022, 20-books-of-summer-2022

Before she started her freshman year, Rowan crafted a list of things that would indicate she'd had the perfect high school experience. Many of those involved besting her class rival, Neil McNair.

In the final few days of her high school tenure, Rowan reflects that she hasn't really checked as many of those things off her list as she'd like, but she can still complete the one about destroying Neil by becoming the class valedictorian. Except, Rowan doesn't earn that honor and it feels like her enti Before she started her freshman year, Rowan crafted a list of things that would indicate she'd had the perfect high school experience. Many of those involved besting her class rival, Neil McNair.

In the final few days of her high school tenure, Rowan reflects that she hasn't really checked as many of those things off her list as she'd like, but she can still complete the one about destroying Neil by becoming the class valedictorian. Except, Rowan doesn't earn that honor and it feels like her entire high school career is going to be for naught.

Fortunately, there is still the final senior challenge/game that she can play, and finally best Neil. Until Rowan overhears some of her classmates talking about how much they hate her and Neil and wanting to destroy them in the game. Stunned, Rowan teams up with Neil out of a sense of self-preservation (and the fact that the prize money is really good). But over the course of the contest, Rowan begins to realize that Neil isn't her enemy, but maybe something different entirely.

After praising Rachel Lynn Solomon for her well-crafted, mature characters in the rom-com Weather Girl, I find myself having to take off points here for Today, Tonight, and Tomorrow for falling into the traps and tropes of the young-adult rom-com.

To start with, it's stunning to that it never crosses Rowan's mind that her cutthroat competition to be at the top of her class in everything might somehow rub her fellow class members the wrong way. And maybe it's been a while since I was in high school, but the sheer amount of time and effort that everyone has to put into this contest for the graduating seniors and the seriousness with which it's taken just doesn't ring. It feels a bit too cute and like something invented for a teen comedy that wouldn't necessarily transpire in real life.

And while I can buy that Rowan and Neil have been secretly harboring a crush on each other all this time, the process of bringing them together doesn't always ring true or come across as authentic.

Overall, there were far too many things that took me out of this story for me to fully enjoy it. ...more

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Mar 04, 2022 Min rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: romance

Enjoyed this a lot, given that I didn't feel the same way about the last Rachel Lynn Solomon book that I read and was also not a fan of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.

Character development was lovely, and romance felt slow-burn even though the events took place over only a day. ...more

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