Time Travel for Love and Profit, Sarah Lariviere
Time Travel for Love and Profit, Sarah Lariviere
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Time Travel for Love and Profit

Author: Sarah Lariviere

Narrator: Kristen Sieh

Unabridged: 7 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/26/2021


Synopsis

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 behind in the process. And as Nephele looks ahead, all she can see is three very lonely years.

Nephele is also a whip-smart lover of math and science, so she makes a plan. Step one: invent time travel. Step two: go back in time, have a do-over of 9th grade, crack the code on making friends and become beloved and popular.

Does it work? Sort of. Nephele does travel through time, but not the way she planned--she's created a time loop, and she's the only one looping. And she keeps looping, for ten years, always alone. Now, facing ninth grade for the tenth time, Nephele knows what to expect. Or so she thinks. She didn't anticipate that her new teacher would be a boy from her long ago ninth grade class, now a grown man; that she would finally make a new friend, after ten years. And, she couldn't have pictured someone like Jazz, with his deep violet eyes, goofy magic tricks and the quietly intense way he sees her. After ten freshman years, she still has a lot more to learn. But now that she's finally figured out how to go back, has she found something worth staying for?

Reviews

Goodreads review by human

Thank you to Netgalley and Knopf Books for Young Readers for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. (actual rating: 3.5/5) Even though this book is really weird in that it doesn't always make a whole lot of sense, I actually enjoyed reading it. When Nephele Weather's best friend abruptly......more

I think this might have been the strangest book I’ve ever read. I’m really not sure where even to begin with this review so forgive me if it’s a little discombobulated. Strange….so strange. I thought the more of this book I read, the more I would understand, but that wasn’t the case. The more I read,......more

Goodreads review by Laura

Nephele Weather a brilliant but awkward Greek 15 year old just had the worst Freshman year.  Living in Northern California her parents own a bookshop. Her father handed her a copy of the book Time Travel for Love and Profit. She gets a great idea to go back and redo her Freshman year. She figures out......more

This and other reviews can be found on The Psychotic Nerd Actual Rating: 2.5 Stars MY THOUGHTS I was really psyched for this book when I first heard about it! It sounded like a fun, intriguing book, with so many things I love! Unfortunately, I didn't like this book as much as I hoped. Nephele, or F......more


Quotes

Nephele’s introspective monologues are filled with elegantly descriptive detail, tending toward a rambling stream-of-consciousness that many readers will find winning.” —Publishers Weekly