Blog Tour & Review: The Throwback List

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the THE THROWBACK LIST by Lily Anderson Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

 

About the Book:

Title: THE THROWBACK LIST

Author: Lily Anderson

Pub. Date: October 5, 2021

Publisher:  Hyperion Avenue

Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook

Pages: 400

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

 

Welcome to Sandy Point, Oregon: a sleepy beach town that’s home to a giant anchor statue, a sometimes-karaoke-bar, and Frosty’s questionably legendary Sunday Sundae Surprise. A town Jo, Autumn, and Bianca thought they’d left far behind when they graduated high school, finally moving on to greener pastures than the midway point for tourists heading to the Goonies house.

 

But life seldom goes according to plan.

Bianca Boria-Birdy, former prom queen and valedictorian, has always been an overachiever. As she juggles managing the family tattoo parlor, caring for her grandmother, and adjusting to a new marriage, Bianca’s schedule becomes stricter than ever, with no room for disruption. What she really needs is a vacation, but not even Bianca Boria-Birdy can achieve the impossible.

Autumn Kelly used to be an actress. Now she teaches drama at Sandy Point High. She may have had to kiss her movie-star dreams goodbye, but molding the next generation of performers has given her life meaning in a whole new way. Until the sudden reappearance of her ex-best friend throws everything off-balance.

Jo Freeman has it all together. With a cool job in Silicon Valley, connections at the trendiest fitness studios, and a down payment on her dream condo, she’s well on her way to reaching every one of her goals before thirty. Or she was, before she got fired and landed right back home with her parents and teenage sister.

When Jo finds an old bucket list in her childhood bedroom, it sets the three women on a path that brings them closer to one another with each task. And it just might lead to a life none of them could have planned.

Praise
for The Throwback List
“Witty and fiercely relatable. Lily Anderson writes about what it’s like to realize you’re totally failing at this adulting thing and how it makes you turn to that one, special, friend who always knew you best. A fun, funny, and
surprisingly emotional look at  how friendship evolves but always endures.”—Sarah Watson, author of Most Likely and creator of The Bold Type

Before I begin my review I quickly want to thank Rockstar Book Tours for allowing me to be part of this blog tour and for sending a eGalley of the book to read for my review today.

I know I have said this numerous times but I love taking part in blog tours especially if it’s new to me authors and books. This is the case today. I have heard of Lily Anderson’s books before but I never picked them up until now and after reading this I will definitely be checking out Lily’s previous books.

The Throwback list centers around three women, Jo, Autumn, and Bianca. It’s told from their points of view.

Once Jo graduated high school and left her small town in Oregon, Sandy Point  (I could totally relate as I grew up in a small town that sounded just like this town) she never looked back until she is terminated from her job. With no job in sight and unable to pay her bills she has no choice but to go back home to a place she never thought she would go back to. It’s there that she finds her old notebook that had a sort of bucket list of things to do in Sandy Point that Autumn and Jo wanted to accomplish. Sadly she didn’t check anything off her side of the list.

Next door to Jo’s parents is Bianca. Bianca was prom queen, valedictorian, president of the Honor Society in high school but now she is a newlywed who is taking care of her grandmother and runs the family tattoo shop. Just when Bianca thinks she is finally getting the long-overdue honeymoon the rug is snatched from under her because her husband is planning on buying a dentist’s office for his orthodontal practice with the money. I have to say that this point annoyed me because he just went ahead and did it without consulting his wife. He knew that she was looking forward to this.

Next is Autumn. She was Jo’s best friend. She moved out to LA to pursue acting and when things didn’t pan out she moved back to Sandy Point as a teacher to teach drama at her old high school. Since moving back Bianca and Autumn have become friends. Autumn wants nothing more in this world for her two friends to get along. But can they?

I was instantly hooked and found this to be pretty much a quick read for me. Once I started it I didn’t want to put it down. I do have to say that while I was reading this I couldn’t help but think of friends that I have lost contact with since leaving my hometown many many years ago but thanks to Facebook I am able to reconnect and hopefully, if I can make it back there next summer I will be able to make plans to hang out with them. I do applaud anyone who can say they still have best friends from when they went to school.

I definitely could relate to Jo the most because I did the same things she did. Once I graduated high school, I high-tailed it out of there and moved to the big city. Only because my little hometown didn’t have a lot going on. Things were limited job-wise etc. At first, I went back almost every year, and then there was a point I stopped going back. I haven’t been back in almost 15 years and I miss it. I guess you can take the girl out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the girl.

I have one question is a second chance at friendship the new thing to a second chance at a love troupe? Because if it is sign me up. I am here for that kind of troupe.

About Lily Anderson:

Lily Anderson is the author of The Only Thing Worse Than Me is You; Not Now, Not Ever; and Undead Girl Gang. A former school librarian, she is deeply devoted to Shakespeare, fairy tales, and podcasts. Somewhere in Northern California, she is having strong opinions on musical theater.

 

Find her online at www.mslilyanderson.com.

 

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Giveaway Details:

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