Today Tonight Tomorrow by Rachel Lynn Soloman
Published by Simon Pulse on July 2020Pages: 384
Format: eBook
Source: Publisher
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Today, she hates him.
It’s the last day of senior year. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time.
Tonight, she puts up with him.
When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they’re the last players left—and then they’ll destroy each other.
As Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he’s much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she’s sparred with for the past four years. And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams.
Tomorrow…maybe she’s already fallen for him.
I cannot say enough things about this book except that I enjoyed it so much, I bought the Hardcover for myself and for a friend.
Today Tonight Tomorrow is everything. It’s bittersweet and lovely, it’s new love and new friends. It’s growing up and out and not ready to leave.
Rowan and Neil are perfect characters of depth and tenderness. I loved how their relationship grew from enemies to friends and then to something more. They’re both driven and vulnerable at the same time, neither one of them understanding the other until they spend all night trying to accomplish their last high school game.
First of all, I loved Rowan, especially because she loved romance books. It was amazing to read about a character that loved romance books, unapologetically. She was wildly smart and I loved how passionate she was about romance books. Her arguments were well thought out and sound (me being a big fan of romance books really appreciated her arguments!) and her vulnerability on her writing was well written, making her a very honest character. I also loved her best friends and her complicated relationship with them. Rowan made mistakes but I was happy to see how she handled them.
Second of all, HOWL! I loved the game that the class does during the book. It was this fun scavenger hunt that allowed the reader to really experience Seattle and all of its charms. Howl was the perfect setting within the city because it really intensified Rowan and Neil being thrown together and heightened the urgency of their relationship.
And of course third of all, I loved Neil. His character was charming and sweet and angry and all the things that is the teenage years. I loved his closeness to his sister and his three best friends.
But most of all, Soloman does a wonderful job of addressing uncomfortable stereotypes and racism without being preachy. Rowan is Jewish and there are some racist remarks overheard. I loved how this was discussed, how small stereotypes chip away at a person little by little. How you’re seen as not being able to take a joke if you are offended. How you can’t say anything or feel like it could get worse.
I also loved Rowan’s discussion and defense of romance novels. I wanted to high five her all the way through this book.
Overall, Today Tonight Tomorrow was exactly what I needed. Trust me. You don’t even know you need it, but you do.
Kimberly majored in Songwriting and currently works full time in the music industry. When she's not listening to music, knitting or writing, you can find her outside reading her favorite genres: Young Adult, Adult Fiction, Mystery, and Romance.
