“Four years of sparring when we could have had this: his awful singing voice, his hip bumping mine to encourage me to sing along, the scarlet on his cheeks when I attacked him with icing. While I was so focused on destroying him, I missed so much.”
Today Tonight Tomorrow
I may be in my Rachel Lynn Solomon era. Weather Girl was one of my favorite reads because it was a cute, beautiful romance that featured characters with realistic mental health issues, and I loved seeing that kind of representation on the page. Then I picked up What Happens in Amsterdam and was blown away by a cute, quirky romance with an incredible setting. And like that, I was craving more.
I picked up Today Tonight Tomorrow from the library which is a YA romance and probably one of my favorite of all time. I read this book in a single sitting because I absolutely could not put it down, and I ran to the library this morning to get the sequel.
Rowan and Neil have been competing for four years against each other. Who can be the best at literally everything that is related to school? They compete on essay contests, debates, student elections, how many colleges they are accepted to. And at the end of their senior year they compete for valedictorian and salutatorian, a final competition between them before Neil heads off to NYU and Rowan heads for Emerson.
Yet as the end of their senior year comes, Rowan realizes how much she missed out on. She was so focused on her school activities and being the best that she lost sight of her friendships and her dreams. But one dream she keeps locked up is her love of romance novels and the fact that she has started writing one of her own.
On the last day of school, Neil and Rowan team up one last time in a Seattle city scavenger hunt that takes them throughout the entire city in the span of one day and night. It’s during this time that they both realize that they hardly ever knew each other at all, and the cost of that meant they missed out on so many years of what might have been a beautiful relationship.
This book was so beautiful and emotionally charged. The reader gets to see these two characters on the verge of adulthood looking back to the past and forward toward the future while trying to figure out themselves in the process. This book was not just a love story, it was a love letter to Seattle as well. I also loved the author tore down all the stigmas surrounding romance tropes that many readers and writers of romance often face.
I am completely in love with Rachel Lynn Solomon’s writing style and looking forward to reading the sequel and more of her work.
Of Worlds Forgotten 
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