Book Review: Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea

💕 Mother/daughter buddy read 💕

Shockingly we both agree and give it 3.5⭐
Genre ~ Young Adult
Setting ~ not sure what state they’re in
Publication date ~ October 1, 2023
Page Count ~ 273 (40 chapters)
Audio length ~ 8 hours 25 minutes
Narrator ~ Natalie Naudus
POV ~ single 1st
Featuring ~ high school, time travel, enemies to lovers, no steamage

This is the story told by (Char)lotte in the last week of high school leading up to prom. She and rival, J.T. Renner, took a tumble and woke up 13 years later when they’re 30 and engaged, which is quite shocking to them both.

My thoughts:
I read this as someone who went to high school many, many, many (I could add a lot more many’s, but you get the gist) years ago and who currently has a high schooler. I found it to be typical of a high school experience from what my old brain can recall. I don’t remember being overly obsessed with prom, like these students were, but it certainly is an experience to remember.
I can totally relate to when her mom was talking about growing apart from her bff. Haven’t seen mine since my Gma’s funeral in 2019 and we rarely text anymore, but it is what it is when one moves away and life goes on.

Anyway, it’s really no surprise where the story is going to take us, but the journey gave us some cute moments and some sad ones, too. I wouldn’t have minded a couple of chapters from Renner’s POV. I think it’d be cool to get a glimpse into the future, but it’s probably just best to live each day to the fullest because you never know what’ll happen.

I don’t read YA much anymore, especially if there’s romance involved, but luckily this only had kissing, so it didn’t make it uncomfortable reading it with my child. There were a few swear words, but not used excessively.

My daughters in depth thoughts:
Kind of predictable. It was okay.

Side note ~ so we read this separately since we only have one copy. I caught her flipping back the pages looking for something and it turns out she was looking back for the same information that I had looked for when I read that particular part. How crazy is that? Maybe that means we’ll be best friends forever!

Narration notes:
I did not listen to this one, but am just giving the info above for reference.

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Book blurb:

For two high school seniors, it’s seventeen going on thirty—overnight—in a magical romantic comedy about growing up too fast and living in the moment.

Planning the perfect prom is one last “to do” on ultra-organized Charlotte Wu’s high school bucket list. So far, so good, if not for a decorating accident that sends Charlotte crash-landing off a ladder, face-first into her obnoxiously ripped archnemesis J. T. Renner. Worse? When Charlotte wakes up, she finds herself in an unfamiliar bed at thirty years old, with her bearded fiancé, Renner, by her side.

Either they’ve lost their minds or they’ve been drop-kicked into adulthood, forever trapped in the thirty-year-old bodies of their future selves. With each other as their only constant, Charlotte and Renner discover all that’s changed in the time they’ve missed. Charlotte also learns there’s more to Renner than irritating-jock charm, and that reaching the next milestone isn’t as important as what happens in between.

Navigating a series of adventures and a confounding new normal, Charlotte and Renner will do whatever it takes to find a way back to seventeen. But when—and if—they do, what then?

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