There are points in this book where I just want to scream at Devi! Devi, senior in high school, has just been dumped by her 3.5 year boyfriend. She is super depressed. At the mall she makes a wish to be able to go back in time and tell her freshman self not to date Brian. She drops her cell phone in the mall fountain and when she fishes it out, it only calls one number....HER FRESHMAN SELF! So senior Devi convinces frosh to not go out with Brian in the first place in order to alte the future, to get good grades and to get into a top school. But every decision frosh makes completely alters the present for senior Devi and things change drastically around her, even though she still remembers the old past. For awhile I was really unimpressed, but as the book comes to an end I think the messages are good. Number one most important message: don't loose yourself in a boy! Maybe you have this killer boyfriend, but that doesn't mean you should lose sight of your goals, friends, dreams, etc. Also it was sparkly, squeaky clean! A rare in teen lit these days! I think it would make a fun movie.

This book was a plush fantasy. Enjoyable and fun, but if you spend even a second thinking about it seriously, the plot holes are overwhelming. So don't think about it.

3.5 stars - fun read

What kind of advice would older teenage you give younger teenage you? How could it change your life?

The premise of Gimme a Call was quite clever, and the working back and forth of cause and effect was well done, if sometimes oversimplified.

I really liked the young Devi, who felt like a nice but realistic young lady. She doesn't quite know what her goals and priorities are, which isn't unusual for someone just starting high school.

The older Devi is another story altogether. She's finishing up high school, and she didn't make the best of choices throughout her time there. She's blown off her studies, alienated her friends, lost touch with her sister, with all of her energy going toward her boyfriend. And he's now broken up with her.

These choices aren't what bother me about her. It's her relationship with her younger self. She never tries to work together with her younger self. She's bossy, demanding, and very much looking at it in terms of the ends justifying the means. She's just overall very unpleasant. I wish she'd been a little more balanced, while still having room to grow.

Overall, it was a short fun read. It was one of those YA books where I felt while reading it that I wasn't the target audience, and I suspect the appeal will be higher for those of the intended age.

My 12 year old daughter liked the book quite a big, although she didn't love it.

3.5 out of 5 stars.

Very cheesy and over dramatic but a book that I couldn't put down.

It's a kind of interesting idea: you can speak with your younger self and prevent she made a lot of mistakes...
The think I love most is the way the future keep changing: the friends, the photos, the university even the family...
And the way both understand that they have to make their own choices. Then her future is better than she could imagine, the secret was the balance between boyfriend, friends, family and school. I suppose that oldest sisters are right sometimes.
In the end the balance allows her to have a good present, even has a little sister and maybe the possibility of calling her future self... but I think Devi has learned the lesson: she doesn't need Ivi, she can be Devi...

My friend was reading this at school and when she told me what it was about I asked if I could borrow it when she was done. I really enjoyed the start of the book, I was really enjoying it but when I got to about chapter 34 I was getting a little bored and thought it was becoming repetitive, older Devi told her to do something, it went wrong. My friend said she needed the book back so I decided to pick it up again and finish it. At first I just kept getting bored of it but towards the end I really got into it again and thought the ending was brilliant. Overall it's a good book but you have to keep reading it, you can't put it down or you might not pick it up again.

Where can I find this fountain? I loved this book a lot. I sometimes wished "Ivy" would stop being bossy and just let "Frosh" make her own choices.

I read 10 Things We Did last summer and I loved it. It was quirky and fun and made me laugh out loud. When I saw this book at the library I was hoping for something just as fun and quirky from Mlynowski. I have to admit that while I enjoyed this book, it was a bit disappointing and lackluster for me.
The book is about a girl named Devi who has just been heartbroken. She drops her phone in a fountain and as a result something magical happens. Now the phone can only be used to call one person: herself in freshman year. Devi decides to use this to her advantage and tells her younger self to work harder (to get into a better university) and to stay away from her ex (so she won't have her heart broken). In the end shenanigans are had by all.
To me, this book was light and fluffy but I think it was too light and fluffy for my taste. While I enjoy YA, I am almost 30 and I think that this book would be perfect for it's target audience of teenagers. I think that most YA is geared at teens but can also be enjoyed by those that are older but some is best enjoyed while still young.
I still like Mlynowski's writing style and her characters and I still found the book entertaining but I did find that it was a bit too predictable for me. It is also a theme that I have read a lot of.
While this book may not be entirely for me, that is not to say that it wouldn't be enjoyed by others. I give the book 2.5 stars out of 5 but again, it was more than likely just my frame of mind and my age bracket. I would suggest that you read for yourself and decide what you think.

I enjoyed the confusion and conflict and could make myself the main character. I loved it.