Queen B’s Decree: Workaholic Noelle impulsively stops at a food market and orders dumplings from a cash-only stand where the old woman selling them claims they will give Noelle exactly what she needs. What she ends up doing is reliving the same day over and over again, stuck in a time loop.
While there is absolutely a romance here (her daily meet cutes with Cam), I feel like this story is more about Noelle’s growth. It’s in the time loop that she learns to realize her worth as an employee, discovers her loneliness when she makes a best friend—also stuck in the time loop, and becomes less judgmental towards her less-accomplished sister.
Her daily “dates” with Cam (who doesn’t remember her obviously) are cute but I felt for Noelle; is this really a relationship if he never remembers you?
It felt like the pacing after they left the time loop was sped up, and I hoped for more relationship development there. But overall, Time Loops & Meet Cutes was a cute and fun listen—especially since the narrators Cindy Kay and Raymond J. Lee did such a great job!
Book: Time Loops & Meet Cutes by Jackie Lau
Series: standalone
Genre: Contemporary
Plot Devices/Tropes: soulmates