3.5 stars. It would have gotten more, but both Devi's got on my nerves a bit too much during the book. I really liked the ending though. I just wish it had drawn me in more; even though I finished it quickly, it was more a "let's finish this quickly so I can move on to the next book" rather than a "I have to finish this NOW" book. I wish I could have liked it better. There's nothing necessarily wrong with it though. A perfect beach read. :)

An unfortunate fountain incident leaves a senior high school girl left with a cell phone that will only call one person- the freshman version of herself. Fresh from a heartwrenching breakup, she tries to warn her former self away from the boy that broke her heart, but you can't just take away the most important relationship from the past four years without other things changing too. As senior Devi watches her prom date, her best friends, and her college acceptance letter change, freshman Devi tries to keep the future from taking any unintended detours. An interesting look at how every little conversation led us to wehere we are today, and what things could have been like.

3.5 stars. There are many of us that wish we could go back and tell our younger selves something. Maybe it's as simple as not to do something or not to get your haircut. It could be cool or it might turn into a whole lot of trouble like Devi finds out in "Gimme a Call."

I listened to this book on audiobook and enjoyed it!

I can see why some people would dislike this book and others would like it. I definitely think I would have enjoyed it more when I was in high school, but it's still a cute, fluffy read. I do think there could have been a much deeper exploration of the themes of regret, trying to balance the past/present/future, the bigger impact knowledge of the future can have, but for a high school fluff book, it's a fine read to kill a few hours. I'm a little frustrated at some of the body negativity, but the sad thing is that it's pretty much the norm. Still, I'd like to see YA authors making steps to lessen the acceptability of critiquing other peoples' bodies rather than normalize it. Honestly though, minor end spoiler, I wish the characters had been aged up like at the very end. It would have been so much more interesting, there are more changes happening in a person's life around college, and I could imagine a cool Jessica Darling-like story there. I hope the possibility for an aged up sequel is still around!

This is a ridiculously fun, easy to read book. The premise is awesome (what happens if you damage your cell phone and you can now only call one person? And what if that one person is you, three years ago?) and Devi (past and present/present and future, depending on how you look at it) is an awesome, fun girl.

High school senior Devi wants to warn freshman Devi not to date Bryan because he will break her heart. And because their relationship (which covers all of high school) consumed everything--she ditched her friends and schoolwork wasn't at all a priority. So when their relationship was over, she had no friends and was heading to a college known for its 100% acceptance rate.

But can you really talk yourself out of falling for someone? And should you try? (Because remember, actions have consequences--and rent Back to the Future if you don't believe me.)

I couldn't stop reading this book, and I bet you'll feel the same way. :)

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.

17 year-old Devi Banks has been having a bit of a hard time lately, she's been dumped by her boyfriend of four years Bryan, she's lost all of her friends and the only college she's been accepted to is known as "Stupid State" to everyone who has heard of it. After Devi drops her phone into a fountain, she realises that she can talk to her 14-year-old self. She realises she can use her new found ability to warn her 14-year-old self from doing all of the things she wished she could change, including not falling in love Bryan. But changing the past isn't as easy as Devi thinks and there's a danger she might just try and change the past too much and end up worse off than when she started.

I have to admit that I decided to buy Gimme A Call on a whim. I've never read any of Sarah's previous books although I have heard about her chick lit books. However after seeing a lot of people saying they loved the sound of Gimme A Call, a teenage novel by Sarah, I looked it up and thought it sounded like a great read so I decided to pre-order it for myself. I wasn't too sure if I'd read it as soon as it arrived but I decided to try the first three pages to see if it was really a book I wanted to read and I was immediately hooked.

I've only read one other book about being able to change the lives of the characters by the means of a younger/older self and that was Alexandra Potter's book Who's That Girl?. I wasn't a huge fan of the book so I obviously approached Gimme A Call with some trepidation, wondering how Sarah Mlynowski would approach the entire concept. Sarah's version comes in the form of 17-year-old Devi being able to contact her 14-year-old self via her mobile phone, after she drops it into a fountain. I thought it was an interesting way of doing things and was very intrigued as to how it would all pan out. The book is told in alternating chapters from both 17-year-old Devi and 14-year-old Devi's point of view. To save on confusion, 17-year-old Devi becomes Ivy and 14-year-old Devi becomes Frosh which helps to tell the difference between the two and there's also a font change which also divides the two narratives from each other.

For Ivy, the chance to change her current life is a welcome one as when we first meet her she's friendless, boyfriendless and due to her low grades has only been accepted to a small college so the ability to re-do everything makes her incredibly excited. Frosh, on the other hand, doesn't believe that Ivy is indeed her older self and refuses to believe it, thinking it's some kind of stalker-girl. Ivy eventually manages to make Frosh believe that she tells the truth and Ivy, as expected, starts to tell Frosh all of the things she should avoid. Of course, changing the past isn't all it's cracked up to be and it appears that every time Ivy makes Frosh differ from the path Ivy followed herself, it immediately makes changes to Ivy's current life causing some strange results.

Both Ivy and Frosh were incredibly interesting characters. Yes, they are essentially one and the same, but they are also so different because they're obviously three years apart from each other. I think Ivy (older Devi) was a little bit neurotic when it came to ordering Frosh (younger Devi) around. I could totally understand why; after being dumped by Bryan she's obviously hurting and wants to try and make it better by telling Frosh to never date him. In turn, that makes Frosh mildly rebellious - who is Ivy to tell her what to do after all. It makes an interesting dynamic between the pair. They're the only two main characters in the book, really. Bryan, Devi's boyfriend, does make regular appearances as well as their joint friends/ex-friends. But really the book revolves solely around the older and younger Devi.

Sarah's writing is incredibly readable and I whizzed through the book at quite a pace. Because the book is told from both Ivy & Frosh's perspective it helps keep the tale moving along as each new different path Frosh decides to take changes Ivy's world, some things for the better, some things for the worse, and some things for the totally unexpected. The biggest problem I thought I might encounter throughout the book was the ending of Gimme A Call. How do you end a book like this? With a reasonable explanation and an ending that doesn't make you want to tear your hair out? Well, I think Sarah managed the ending perfectly. It didn't seem twee or forced and I thought the ending was very well done and it really worked for me.

Gimme A Call was a really good read and I would hugely recommend it to any young adult fan. It was a quick and easy read and had a wonderful premise that Sarah Mlynowski pulled off with aplomb. I will certainly be looking out for more of Sarah's books and I really hope she's working on her next young adult book because Gimme A Call was fabo (as Devi says).

I really liked this one! It's a little bit time travely, done in a completely chick-lit for teens way. Or maybe more like The Lakehouse, but instead of a magic mailbox, it's a magic cell phone. Also! This book is ridiculously clean.

Gimme A Call was a fun, well-written book about Devi, a senior in high-school who is given a chance to communicate with her freshman self after a recent breakup with her high-school boyfriend.

I really liked the premise of the book; I think we all have things we would like to tell our younger selves, and seeing how that affected Devi's life was really interesting to see. There are two distinct main characters - Senior Devi and Freshman Devi. For at least the first half of the book I found Senior Devi to be very pushy and annoying. She is understandably worried about how her younger self 'messes up' her life, but she doesn't need to be so mean about it. And lying to yourself? Never a good idea. I found Freshman Devi much more relatable. She was suspicious of Senior Devi at first, suspecting a prank, and balked at some of Senior Devi's seemingly ridiculous commands. However, as things changed in Senior Devi's life, she showed some admirable character traits. She would give up everything to keep her family together, and worked on mending relationships between herself and others in her family. Her loyalty and love of her family were what kept me from stopping the book for the first half; then as she started learning to let go and not be such a control freak, she became much more interesting.

The plot was very well-developed. The book moved at a fast pace, and never got boring (which is impressive, as I quickly get tired of audiobooks; the only others that have successfully kept my interest are the Hunger Games series). There were a few surprising plot twists, and the fact that Devi's world was continually changing was exciting.

Some of the time-travel elements were not clearly explained, I think because Devi herself didn't know how most of the time-travel worked. I found it frustrating not to know how everything worked out, but the story was good enough to negate these annoyances.

Overall, I thought Gimme A Call was an interesting, fast-paced story with a bit more depth than I expected.

I dont really remember this one but I really enjoyed it