hm, i feel very ambivalent on my final rating of the book. if i think about my reading experience of the book on a surface level, it does feel like a heart-warming book. the characters who try to travel back in time end up overcoming their emotional obstacles and learn more about themselves in the process. but the minute i think a little too deeply about the characters and the specific problems that they wanted to fix, i begin to dislike it even more.

first, i really despise books, shows, etc where the woman dies from pregnancy. i also don't like how the moral of the story for the girl who breaks up with her boyfriend is to wait three years for the boy to come back and marry her, despite the fact that the girl is objectively hotter and smarter and more accomplished than the guy. i also feel super weird about the sister story because she ends up giving in to her parents' expectations of her, and although the story makes it sound like a good thing, i feel bad about the fact that she had dreams of her own too that all got sidelined and made unimportant by virtue of her sister's death. 

idk! maybe i should stop thinking and just take the good vibes that were handed to me in a coffee cup! but alas, i am cursed to overthink.