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90s Girl
People who say they were born in the wrong time always annoyed me. Until I fell through a time warp and found the girl of my dreams in the distant past of the early ‘90s!
It was supposed to be a fun night out with friends at a skating rink. Only I hadn’t skated in years and sort of hit my head. Hard.
I don’t know if that’s what did it. I sure as hell didn’t hit 88 miles per hour on those skates. George Carlin didn’t invite me to check out his phone booth. I didn’t walk into a police box that’s bigger on the inside. But I still wound up in the early ‘90s, that weird in between time when the ’80s were refusing to die off, which wasn’t the greatest for a modern girl.
We’re talking the neon colors everywhere, poofy hairsprayed hairdos on the women and the men, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer being played unironically, early 1990s.
I love retro, but time travel? That was a bit much. Until I met Jenny. Beautiful Jenny. My perfectly awesome retro girl. Who totally lives in a time before I was born! A time when people weren’t as cool with the whole LGBT thing as they are these days.
My life was complicated enough before I found myself in the middle of a time traveler’s girlfriend situation! And that time might be running out.
The question is, am I running on Terminator rules where time a closed loop, everything’s already happened, and I don’t have a choice about the future? Or is there still a chance I might find a loophole that lets me Terminator 2 this thing and make my own fate?
Yeah, and you thought you had love trouble!
It was supposed to be a fun night out with friends at a skating rink. Only I hadn’t skated in years and sort of hit my head. Hard.
I don’t know if that’s what did it. I sure as hell didn’t hit 88 miles per hour on those skates. George Carlin didn’t invite me to check out his phone booth. I didn’t walk into a police box that’s bigger on the inside. But I still wound up in the early ‘90s, that weird in between time when the ’80s were refusing to die off, which wasn’t the greatest for a modern girl.
We’re talking the neon colors everywhere, poofy hairsprayed hairdos on the women and the men, Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer being played unironically, early 1990s.
I love retro, but time travel? That was a bit much. Until I met Jenny. Beautiful Jenny. My perfectly awesome retro girl. Who totally lives in a time before I was born! A time when people weren’t as cool with the whole LGBT thing as they are these days.
My life was complicated enough before I found myself in the middle of a time traveler’s girlfriend situation! And that time might be running out.
The question is, am I running on Terminator rules where time a closed loop, everything’s already happened, and I don’t have a choice about the future? Or is there still a chance I might find a loophole that lets me Terminator 2 this thing and make my own fate?
Yeah, and you thought you had love trouble!
223 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 19, 2019
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February 23, 2020
This was one of the most original time travel books I've read in my life. And I've read quite a few. Kudos to the author.
February 12, 2019
So, I thought this was another classic Mia Archer book, but towards the end, there was a part, without spoiling too much, where Aunt Liv reveals who she is to the main character, Liv, and that kind of confused me and I had to re-read the whole chapter because I just couldn't follow it. After I got past that part, I really liked the ending and majority of the story itself, but that reveal towards the end was just hard to follow. I would recommend reading this anyway, as I thought it was still a very well-done story about how a girl from the present day, travels through a roller-rink time portal and meets a girl, named Jenny, in which Liv is immediately finding herself falling for. Thus begins the story.
September 9, 2022
4 stars. This book quoted Mystery Science Theater 3000 to basically explain the plot so that made me love it even more. Clearly, this author has impeccable tastes in shows. Anyway, this was such a fun ride. Don’t go in expecting anything to make sense though because the logic and science behind how and why Olivia can time travel to the 90s is nonexistent but I didn’t mind.
This book was super entertaining and well written. I didn’t want it to end. I loved Olivia and her relationship with Jenny, a woman she meets in the 90s. Their relationship was adorable as hell and I liked Jenny. The big reveal that happened with Olivia’s aunt was wild. Didn’t see that coming at all and left me sort of confused but it was fine. I see what the author was going for. It wraps up quickly but it was pretty cute. This book is super lighthearted and fun and I adored it.
This book was super entertaining and well written. I didn’t want it to end. I loved Olivia and her relationship with Jenny, a woman she meets in the 90s. Their relationship was adorable as hell and I liked Jenny. The big reveal that happened with Olivia’s aunt was wild. Didn’t see that coming at all and left me sort of confused but it was fine. I see what the author was going for. It wraps up quickly but it was pretty cute. This book is super lighthearted and fun and I adored it.
January 30, 2019
Time Traveling, and lesbians what's not to like
I was a fun book, a quick read, and never seemed to drag anywhere.
The romance was on the light side, the girls got together rapidly without any of the fun of drawn out flirting, but they were cute together and none of the pointless drama often used to keep books longer.
Slight spoilers
My only real complaint is the foreshadowing was too strong, felt like it was seriously worried about me missing the twist that I saw as obvious, and the book never explained why Liv didn't meet Aunt Olivia's Girlfriend.
I was a fun book, a quick read, and never seemed to drag anywhere.
The romance was on the light side, the girls got together rapidly without any of the fun of drawn out flirting, but they were cute together and none of the pointless drama often used to keep books longer.
Slight spoilers
My only real complaint is the foreshadowing was too strong, felt like it was seriously worried about me missing the twist that I saw as obvious, and the book never explained why Liv didn't meet Aunt Olivia's Girlfriend.
December 21, 2023
The story was okay, and I was curious where it was going to go, but the writing was kind of annoying. Besides it being somewhat messy, almost everything went on repeat or was mentioned multiple times. Archer kept repeating herself so often it felt a little simplistic, almost childish sometimes. I think she could have written the same story in at least half the words she has used.
And - maybe a little spoiler alert - one question kept me hanging: why was Jenny not part of Liv's life growing up and being cared for by Aunt Olivia?
And - maybe a little spoiler alert - one question kept me hanging: why was Jenny not part of Liv's life growing up and being cared for by Aunt Olivia?
January 27, 2019
Talk about a paradox waiting to happen!?
How about a story where you meet your mother before you were born. Weird does not come close and top of that you meet your partner for life. Interesting story, good thing the author kept her head on right writing the story! Enjoy!
How about a story where you meet your mother before you were born. Weird does not come close and top of that you meet your partner for life. Interesting story, good thing the author kept her head on right writing the story! Enjoy!
January 27, 2019
Bring on the 90’s
I think we all have wondered what going back in time would be like. I loved this book because Liv and I are about the same age and couldn’t imagine going back..lol those awful styles..
Anyway such a fun read. Bring on the next book Ms. Archer.
I think we all have wondered what going back in time would be like. I loved this book because Liv and I are about the same age and couldn’t imagine going back..lol those awful styles..
Anyway such a fun read. Bring on the next book Ms. Archer.
September 20, 2019
Entertaining!
The time travel theme in this book was an enjoyable little twist on the usual theme. I was quite surprised by that twist as well. Put this book on your must read list to see what I mean.
The time travel theme in this book was an enjoyable little twist on the usual theme. I was quite surprised by that twist as well. Put this book on your must read list to see what I mean.
November 8, 2019
I've always been a sucker for time travel. So i liked the book.
August 24, 2022
This book was adorable. Glad to say that Mia Archer is my favorite author who writes queer stories.
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