A Week of Mondays

by Jessica Brody

Ellie is having the worst Monday of her life. She messes up her school speech for the class vice presidency position, she manages to take the world's worst school picture, she bombs softball tryouts, and the icing on top of this awful cake: her perfect boyfriend who is in a high school rock band dumps her. At the end of the day, Ellie wishes she could redo everything. When she wakes up the next morning, she discovers that it's Monday again! She has six more chances to redo the day in the hopes of having everything go exactly the way she wants. But in the process, she just may find out that what she really wants and what she actually needs are two very different things.

• ISBN10: 0374382727
• ISBN13: 9780374382728
• Publish Date: 2 August 2016
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English

Reviews

[Bianca]

We are never just one thing. We all have many titles and many labels, but far too often, we get trapped inside a single definition. The Teacher’s Pet, the Rule Follower, the Cheerleader, the Athlete, the Princess, the Basket Case, the Criminal … the Rock Star’s Girlfriend. Whether we wrote that definition or whether it was given to us, it somehow becomes our only identity. We get so lost in it that we forget about all the other pieces that make up who we are.

— It was a cute read, but kind of frustrating at times. Great message though about just being yourself.

[Berls]

I had so much fun with A Week of Mondays. To be honest, I picked it up not really knowing anything about it, except that it was on my bookclub reading list and I liked the cover LOL!

What worked: Groundhog day! Okay not really groundhog day, but I've always loved that movie and stories that utilize that trope (is it a trope?) and this one does it so well. Our teenage heroine is reliving what could easily be the worst monday an otherwise happy teen lives through. So no, she doesn't have a hard life and yeah, it could be way worse. But it your otherwise happy, this day sucks.
- Quite a few bits had me LMAO which was an unexpected surprise. Especially the day she looses it and just says eff it! Very funny!
- the relationships! I loved her relationships and how she realizes part of what she has to do to fix Monday is take better care of those relationships - with her mother & father, her sister, and her best friend Ollie.
- the message - You have to be true to who you are! Changing yourself isn't how you find love and happiness, if you love yourself others will too.
- the "love-triangle" - I'm someone who can both love and hate love triangles, depending on how they go. I don't want to spoil anything so I can't explain exactly why this one works- except to say, the right person wins and you don't feel bad at all about the one that looses.

What could have worked better:
- I think I would have liked a few more Mondays! LOL! It's already a long enough book and honestly works just fine the way it is. I'm just trying to figure out what would have made it 5 stars for me and I think some more of the crazy, she's lost it, Mondays would have been fun. Maybe that would have brought me to 5 stars? IDK?

[liz089]

I really liked this book ! It's funny to see how she keeps trying to change every day with a different outcome. Even though the plot and romance is kind of predictable, you really see the change in the main character during the story. How she learns from each day and does it differently the next one. Very enjoyable and it kept me hooked until the very end.