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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
This was fun. It's kind of a YA title, but I enjoyed it. It's like if they had Ancestry DNA in the Parent Trap. It was cute.
So. Flipping. Cute. Emma Lord's first book, Tweet Cute, was so adorable and cheesy and everything you need in a teenage rom-com. And she's done it again with You Have a Match.
I absolutely loved the characters. Abby Day is my kinda girl: adventurous and mischievous with her own problems. And her newfound sister, Savvy, is everything I've wanted in a sister (if I had one!) The setting was perfect, a summer camp that brings back so many great memories for me.
The plot: Abby Day does a DNA test to help her best friend (and love interest) feel more comfortable about him sending out a DNA test. She expects the basics to come back when BAM she has a match. A sister who is a year and a half older than her. Before she even has time to process it, said sister sends her a message asking to meet up. Freshly found sisters Abby and Savvy meet up and decide they need more time to figure out why their parents would place Savvy for adoption and have Abby shortly after. The logical answer: Summer Camp. There they learn more about each other and even more about themselves.
The perfect teenage rom-com I didn't know I needed!
I absolutely loved the characters. Abby Day is my kinda girl: adventurous and mischievous with her own problems. And her newfound sister, Savvy, is everything I've wanted in a sister (if I had one!) The setting was perfect, a summer camp that brings back so many great memories for me.
The plot: Abby Day does a DNA test to help her best friend (and love interest) feel more comfortable about him sending out a DNA test. She expects the basics to come back when BAM she has a match. A sister who is a year and a half older than her. Before she even has time to process it, said sister sends her a message asking to meet up. Freshly found sisters Abby and Savvy meet up and decide they need more time to figure out why their parents would place Savvy for adoption and have Abby shortly after. The logical answer: Summer Camp. There they learn more about each other and even more about themselves.
The perfect teenage rom-com I didn't know I needed!
This book was a cute story about two sisters who discover each other through a DNA match program. It was a fun twist on The Parent Trap with the daughters trying to reconnect their biological and adoptive parents while they attended a summer camp program. There was a dash of romance with multiple friends-to-lovers couples, but I wanted more of this out of the story. Overall I enjoyed this book, and now I want to read Tweet Cute by this author!
Thank you to Emma Lord, St. Martin’s Press Wednesday Books, and NetGalley for this advanced copy for my honest review.
Thank you to Emma Lord, St. Martin’s Press Wednesday Books, and NetGalley for this advanced copy for my honest review.
Mixed feelings on this book. I sped through it, so in that sense it’s a page turner… but mostly I sped thru because I wanted to get it over with so I could move on to other books. It was certainly good enough to finish and cute/funny enough. Interesting plot parts too, with surprising dna test results and ensuing plot tendrils. Other than that the unrequited romantic tension was THICK. Just go ahead and kiss already!; how many more flirty signs do you need? The main character Abby is so Earnest and it was a bit much for me.
This book completes my recent YA audiobook spree for vacation road tripping.
This book completes my recent YA audiobook spree for vacation road tripping.
This one was not as good as Lord’s previous book. It had a lot going on between secret sisters, heavy parent expectations, third-wheel friendship, multiple adoption story lines, a dead grandparent, multiple friends to lovers, mysterious bad boy... I think it it had been paired down a bit it could have been better. With everything going on it relied on some questionable stereotypes about birth mothers/adoptive mothers that didn’t sit well with me. 2.5 rounded up.