Time Travel for Love and Profit

by Sarah Lariviere

Book Overview

When Nephele has a terrible freshman year, she does the only logical thing for a math prodigy like herself: she invents a time travel app so she can go back and do it again (and again, and again) in this funny love story, Groundhog Day for the iPhone generation.

Fourteen-year-old Nephele used to have friends. Well, she had a friend. That friend made the adjustment to high school easily, leaving Nephele...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593174208
• ISBN13: 9780593174203
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

A fun Groundhog Day loop

I love time loops - because so often they allow a character to learn and grow and develop as they go through the same interactions over and over from different angles. That wasn’t the case here, Nephele is looping alone, poking holes in the memories of those around her to make her continued freshman status possible. She has to grow by seeing the unintended side effects hurt the people she loves, by losing someone who matters to her, and by learning to make friends. Nephele has a lot going on. She’s a math genius, she talks to a photograph, and she’s run out of friends. So she decides, naturally, to create a time travel app to redo her Freshman year, so that she can be popular. It doesn’t work out how she thinks, and her life gets even more complicated. This gave me some Coraline vibes, not spooky, but in that as her parents got impacted by the loops, she was sort of having to live with the approximation of her parents in what she thought she wanted. I do recommend this if you love a Groundhog Day book, it was easy to read and plenty of fun.