Gimme a Call by Sarah Mlynowski

Gimme a Call

by Sarah Mlynowski

"See, I was at the mall and I dropped my phone into the fountain. And I had been thinking about all the things I would tell myself if I could call myself when I was fourteen. And now I'm talking to you."
"What," I say slowly, "are you talking about?" I would hang up, should hang up, but she sounds so familiar.
"Don't you see?" she says, bursting with excitement. "I'm pretty sure I'm you. In the future."

Devi is a mess. Her boyfriend just dumped her, and the only college that accepted her is known to everyone as 'Stupid State'. But suddenly, she can talk to herself three-and-a-half years earlier - which means she can totally change her future for the better! Either that, or create hilarious and disastrous consequences...

Reviewed by wyvernfriend on

4 of 5 stars

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While fairly unexceptional in concept, girl drops phone in fountain and discovers that she can contact her 3 years younger self, actions definitely have serious consequences in this story and the actions having consequences are consistent within the plot.

A story about friends and friendship and about being mono-focused, that having fun is sometimes more important than grades and that you are often a product of small decisions that can cascade.

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