gilnean's review
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cursing, Adult/minor relationship, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Cancer
Moderate: Death, Pregnancy, Blood, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Sexual content, Infidelity, War, Slavery, Mental illness, Self harm, Gun violence, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Drug use, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Police brutality, Racism, Chronic illness, and Ableism
thepageladies's review
3.0
If you had the chance to live your life over again, knowing everything that you know now, would you take it?
Would you still take it if it meant losing everything you had today?
Would a second chance to correct every mistake and missed opportunity be worth giving up the world you know and the life you have built?
In the spring of 1970, Harvard psychologist Terry Canyon is introduced to Peter, a quiet kid from a wealthy family who has been suspended from ninth grade for stripping off his clothes in Algebra class. When Terry asks Peter why he did, the boy explains that he was trying to “shock myself awake.”
It turns out that Peter believes he is a sixty-five-year-old man who went to sleep in his home in New York in the year 2020 and woke up in his childhood bedroom fifty years earlier.
Hilariously depicting Peter’s attempts to fit in as a fifteen-year-old in 1970 and to cope with the tedium, foolishness, and sexual temptations of high school.
Thank you, Goodreads and Tiller Books for the chance to read Fifty in Reverse!
“{Ricky DeVille spoke in class,” Peter said. “My hallucination has departed from reality. I expect to see leprechauns emerging from Pepsi cans and orangutans aloft on silver wings. It’s all wide open now.}”
Fifty in Reverse was a heartfelt funny too fast of a read! This book will be even more appealing to people who enjoy the music from around the 70’s and so on. I am not in my fifties but I didn't feel like I couldn’t understand some of the references made to the past. A nice climb in your favorite relaxing and reading spot, put something in the crook pot and just relax in your happy place and read! Happy reading everyone!
“{Our children pass into another life,” she thought, “where they will be secure and easeful, into which we can never go.”}
“{Peter said, “Are you still with us, Mom?}”
“{I’m right here,” she said.}”
“{The boy looked at her like he knew her thoughts. He said, ”Then we are all where we’re meant to be.}”
Would you still take it if it meant losing everything you had today?
Would a second chance to correct every mistake and missed opportunity be worth giving up the world you know and the life you have built?
In the spring of 1970, Harvard psychologist Terry Canyon is introduced to Peter, a quiet kid from a wealthy family who has been suspended from ninth grade for stripping off his clothes in Algebra class. When Terry asks Peter why he did, the boy explains that he was trying to “shock myself awake.”
It turns out that Peter believes he is a sixty-five-year-old man who went to sleep in his home in New York in the year 2020 and woke up in his childhood bedroom fifty years earlier.
Hilariously depicting Peter’s attempts to fit in as a fifteen-year-old in 1970 and to cope with the tedium, foolishness, and sexual temptations of high school.
Thank you, Goodreads and Tiller Books for the chance to read Fifty in Reverse!
“{Ricky DeVille spoke in class,” Peter said. “My hallucination has departed from reality. I expect to see leprechauns emerging from Pepsi cans and orangutans aloft on silver wings. It’s all wide open now.}”
Fifty in Reverse was a heartfelt funny too fast of a read! This book will be even more appealing to people who enjoy the music from around the 70’s and so on. I am not in my fifties but I didn't feel like I couldn’t understand some of the references made to the past. A nice climb in your favorite relaxing and reading spot, put something in the crook pot and just relax in your happy place and read! Happy reading everyone!
“{Our children pass into another life,” she thought, “where they will be secure and easeful, into which we can never go.”}
“{Peter said, “Are you still with us, Mom?}”
“{I’m right here,” she said.}”
“{The boy looked at her like he knew her thoughts. He said, ”Then we are all where we’re meant to be.}”
d4lom7's review
emotional
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.75
eluse9's review
4.0
A cute, light story about something I'm constantly fantasizing about. I enjoyed it .
lumakip's review
4.0
A very unique read, a book not like any I've read...a really well formulated story about the possibility of perhaps reliving a life ... it's impossible to say more without saying too much, it's just a very good quick read
imzadirose's review
4.0
This book was definitely different. If you're looking for a fresh take on time travel, this my do the trick. It was enjoyable and fun. The MC was interesting and the book kept me engaged. Didn't love the ending but didn't know how else it could go, so it wasn't bad in those terms. Solid book.
danlewisfw's review
4.0
Very fun time travel to an alternate past book. I have had this book on my radar for over a year and finally decided to pick it up and I am so happy that I did. If you are very young you may not get as much out of this because you may not really understand the observations made by the protagonist. But if you are 40, 50 or 60+ years you will understand right away some of the ideas that the protagonist has about aging and second chances. It also covers some ideas of what could be bad if you travel in time and mess up your future. #timetravel #50inreverse
tamunra's review
4.0
An interesting book. Even several weeks after I read it, I'm not sure what to make of it. Did Peter actually go back in time in his own body? And why? And if he did, why is the past different from how he remembers it? And what world am I in, reading about his?
A fun book overall, and a very quick read.
A fun book overall, and a very quick read.
n8duke's review
3.0
A fine book. But I could tell that the author was Peter’s 65 year old self and he had uninteresting taste in music, liked sports, and played golf. A real snooze fest.
curlyslf's review
adventurous
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0