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17-year-old Andre Cobb from Boston develops the ability to travel in time after receiving a liver transplant. The time comes when he must choose between a romantic interest in the 1970s and his present-day (2021). ⬇

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I wanted more of the time traveling and less of the romance

Andre has been given a fresh start with a new liver, except the boy who donated the organ also passed along his ability to time travel. Now Andre spends his time either in the past with 1970s Michael or the present with his donor's brother Blake. Each boy causes him to look at himself and his life in a new light.
I was hesitant going into this because I dislike love triangles, but this was a fantastic book about grief and hope and identity.

(2021) YA SF romance about a teenage cancer patient who receives a liver transplant and discovers that the new organ comes with the ability to travel through time. A love triangle ensues, involving the time-traveler, a dreamy young man from the 1970's, and the organ donor's hunky brother. It's too romancey for me, but it made Locus magazine's 2021 Recommended Reading list, so others have loved it.

Saturday was a LONG day. I was working #Penguicon near Detroit, but drove home to Toledo to go to the NW Ohio Teen Book Festival where I met Kosoko Jackson, Derf Backderf, Mindy McGinnis, and Kit Frick. Then I drove BACK to Detroit to finish out the show... where I accidentally met Claire Winn.

I'm not sure I've ever been this tired in my life. 😅

Andre jumps back in time after receiving a new liver transplant. He learns his donor was a time traveler and he‘s now inherited the ability. This leads to a love triangle between the boy from the past and one he‘s just met in the present. Andre must also decide what to do with his own future.
I wanted to learn more about the time traveling, but the focus was on the romance. Ultimately it wasn‘t for me, but I can see how would others like it.

3.5 ⭐ I hate time travel books, but I really liked this novel. Andre Cobb has just had a liver transplant due to cancer. With this liver transplant comes the ability to time travel. His first trip he had no idea what was going on. But with help from his donor family, he learns the ins and outs of time travels and why he has this ability. This story is also a love triangle. This would not really be a rom-com, but definitely a romance.

Ending my extra long weekend with this book while doing some meal prep for the week

One of the best books I‘ve read! All characters were so well developed, and the storyline flowed with ease. I like how it was sort of full circle in a way too. Definitely recommend!

This was a fun YA read...what if your organ transplant came with special powers from its previous owner? For a gay, black teen who has just survived cancer and an organ transplant, his most pressing worry is trying to finish up classes & graduate on time. Time travel wasn‘t even on his radar. Suddenly he‘s met a great guy (in the past), and is thrown into a close relationship with the donor‘s family as they try to teach him his new gift/curse.

Know what‘s fun? Ordering a book, having it arrive, and then reading it all in one day. 😅

Wasn‘t my original plan but here we are. I really enjoyed this story of love and time travel and it wasn‘t as sad as I was fearing it would be. This was also my #DoubleSpin for #bookspinbingo so that might have prompted my choice of reading today as well.

This looks good... I‘ll have to check it out. And since I know a lot of teachers look for diverse books, I‘ll just leave the link here for anyone interested.

https://kosokojackson.com/yesterday-is-history/

#currentlyreading #digital #preview #rsomarch2021 starting to read for next year‘s Standing Orders. This will be hardback but it‘s full of my favourite tropes: LGBTQIA, time travel, coming of age, own voices, diversity, so while it probably won‘t make the list, I still covet it.