Super quick, simple read.

A breezy read but I never quite cared about any of the characters.

Fun cover AND takes place in Oregon! YES PLEASE!

Light read. Childhood friends who’ve lost touch & changed reconnect and work through hurts and expectations. Enjoyable but predictable.

This was an ARC audiobook. I loved the reader. It took me a minute to get into it. I loved the premise of finding yourself with a list and completing those tasks. Jo a twenty something is fired from her job and she must move home to her small home town until she finds a new one. While she is there she must make amends with her friends she has abandoned since high school to help her complete her list. She rediscovers friendship and what she wants to get out of life. I really liked this book and t...

This was my first book club pick of the year. One of the reasons I enjoy book club is because it gets me to read books that I wouldn't normally select on my own. The Throwback List is something that wouldn't have caught my eye if I passed by it on a bookshelf, but I ended up really liking it. Jo is set to meet all her career aspirations by the time she turns 30, having dedicated the past several years to her job in social media. When her company ends up being merged and she gets laid off, Jo rel...

This is a review for an E-ARC of the book. The premise of this novel was intriguing, but I ultimately found it difficult to get into. Maybe it’s because I identified with Jo more than I would have liked. When I moved away from home I did it fully, and even with social media I don’t keep up with people from my hometown. I know that you can’t “go back” and expect things to be the same, so in that sense I felt like Jo was a bit naive. So why 3 stars…well the ending, idk that I should even call it t...

(Disclaimer: I received this book from Netgalley. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.) The Throwback List is a multiple POV story about friendship and self-discovery. About finding out what's next for us, about questioning all the priorities others have made for us. Or having the strength to define, for ourselves, what our happiness, voice, and influence will be. I deeply empathized with Jo, who's always done things by the book. Who, suddenly, feels stuck and back to wh...

I would rate this book 4.25 Stars. I enjoyed how the author made it three points of view and a New Adult book. I feel like it's really hard to find books where the characters are later in college or out of college only by a few years and figuring out life in your mid-to-late twenties. While I did enjoy this book a lot, I felt like Jo is still the main character. I think that the three points of view were distributed a little oddly at times. Overall this was a super fun book about friendship. I l...

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This was such a fun read! I loved both The Gilmore Girls and all seasons of The Bold Type so I was intrigued from the beginning! Jo gets fired and returns to her hometown of Sandy Point even though she's not happy about moving in with her parents and younger sister. And her two oldest friends from high school (that she's ignored for years) are reluctant to accept her back as she hasn't been the best friend. But when she comes across an old journal entry about things she wanted to do in high scho...

I think this would be a great book for YA readers who are looking for adult books to give a try. It’s like a coming of age story for characters in their mid 20s. When Jo loses her job she has to move back to her hometown while figuring out her next steps. There she finds a bucket list of things her and her best friend meant to do before high school ended. Realizing that she never crossed anything off the list, Jo decides to team back up with her old friend… and old nemesis to cross everything of...

The Throwback List has a super cute idea – make a series of Instagram posts about things you wish you’d done in high school. Yet, this book was so slow! There is little to no tension between characters. They just sit around eating and taking pictures. Any drama is resolved within a few pages. The main source of conflict is between Bee and her family. This storyline got real old, real fast as her family treats her with no respect constantly. After the whole story dragged on and on, the last few c...

First of all, before starting this review, I want to say thank you to Rockstar Book Tours and the publisher for the e-ARC of this book. Jo, Autumn and Bianca couldn’t be any more different but here they are yet again reunited with some sort of mission. But will they be able to get through this list of things without “killing” each other? “The Throwback List” was such a fun read with lots of things to learn on life. I was kind of disappointed after finishing this read as it left me wanting more.

I felt waaaay too old to be reading this book (I am 26). It is not that k co wider myself old, but this book seemed like it would be perfect for a younger version of myself. I couldn’t get into the story enough to care about the characters and Bianca seemed really negative. There was also comments about kneeling during the national anthem…. I read to escape, not to read about the things going on in the US. I will not be reading another story by this author again.

A decent, relaxing book. I was 60% through before I cared at all about what was happening to anyone. There is little plot and there are too many perspective characters for much extensive character development to take place.I think the main value this book can provide (beyond some general warmth) lies in two areas: 1) if you’re interested in or can identify with the stressors and considerations of someone who works in social media, and 2) if you’d like to read wish-fulfillment about actually hang...

This book gets 1.5 stars. The .5 comes in because I did actually finish it, so there was SOMETHING that kept me going, but I honestly don't know what. I almost stopped many times.I liked the idea of the story, but I just felt like it wasn't well written at all. Some of it was so disjointed that I had to reread sections just to figure out what was being said. There were a TON of pop culture references throughout. So much that it almost felt forced, like the author was trying too hard to be releva...

"The Throwback List" by Lily Anderson was such a fun book to read. As a fan of "The Bold Type" on Freeform, I truly loved this read. The character development was quick and to the point. You understood each character for who they truly were and I can absolutely appreciate that in a book. I can honestly say I laughed, I may have a shed a few tears due to the love of these 3 girls for one another and enjoyed every minute of it. The only downfall for this book is the pricing. I do not believe that

Joanna Jordan Freeman thought she had it all figured out. But life dealt Jo a massive blow when the company she'd dedicated her life to was sold, thus forcing her back home with her parents in the place she worked so hard to leave. But at home, she starts to find some of the things she'd lost, like her friends, a relationship with her family, and an old journal with a bucket list inspired by all the things other people were doing in her hometown. Using her social media skills honed in the corpor...

This book was received as an ARC from Freeform in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.I loved this book. It was refreshing to read a positive story about three friends reuniting since childhood. This book does a perfect job taking a negative circumstance and turning it into a positive while Jo, Bianca, and Autumn find their bucket list and decided to be like the Goonies and do everything on that list to grow closer to one another. S...