Time loops sound so fun when you watch movies or tv shows. But if you honestly think about it, wouldn't that be awful? There is no tomorrow. Any plans you made will never be fulfilled. And you know what will happen. Below are two books about people who just want tomorrow to come. Blurbs from Goodreads.
Midnight Strikes - Zeba Shahnaz
In this explosive fantasy debut with a time-loop twist, a provincial girl must work with a roguish prince to stop an attack on the royal family and escape a nightmarish curse that forces them to relive the same night again and again.
Seventeen-year-old Anaïs just wants tonight to end. As an outsider at the kingdom’s glittering anniversary ball, she has no desire to rub shoulders with the nation’s most eligible (and pompous) bachelors—especially not the notoriously roguish Prince Leo. But at the stroke of midnight, an explosion rips through the palace, killing everyone in its path. Including her.
The last thing Anaïs sees is fire, smoke, chaos . . . and then she wakes up in her bedroom, hours before the ball. No one else remembers the deadly attack or believes her warnings of disaster.
Not even when it happens again. And again. And again.
If she’s going to escape this nightmarish time loop, Anaïs must take control of her own fate and stop the attack before it happens. But the court's gilded surface belies a rotten core, full of restless nobles grabbing at power, discontented commoners itching for revolution, and even royals who secretly dream of taking the throne. It's up to Anaïs to untangle these knots of deadly deceptions . . . if she can survive past midnight.
The last thing one expects when going to a royal party is your world ending. The last thing one expects after dying is time rewinding to just before abovementioned party. Anaïs just wants to stop dying. Or reliving the worst night ever. Her desperation to end her loop is visceral. You feel her mental exhaustion.
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things by Lev Grossman
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman comes a magical-realist romance that turns the Groundhog Day premise inside-out and upside-down—coming soon to Amazon as a major motion picture.Mark is 17-years-old and trapped in a time loop, and that’s just fine with him. It’s summertime and he’s spending this one infinitely repeating day reading his way through the town library. Then he discovers someone else in the loop with the brilliant, haunted Margaret. Together Mark and Margaret set out to find every wonderful, amazing, perfect thing that happens in that one day—a journey that will take them to the dark secret that waits at the very heart of their endless day. Thrilling, funny, and deeply romantic, this novella is perfect for fans of John Green, Nicola Yoon, and Jandy Nelson.
When tomorrow doesn't seem likely to make an appearance anytime soon, finding the little fun or perfect things that happen every day sounds like a good way to stay sane. Because repeating the same day gets old fast. It's also fun when you have company. That way you either stay sane together or go nuts together. That last one was my opinion.
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