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You Have a Match by Emma Lord
2.0

Do you know how hard it is to make a summer camp book boring?

And not just a summer camp book - a secret-sister family-drama friends-to-lovers finding-yourself summer camp book?

Have you considered how goddamn hard it would be to fit all of that into 300 pages and still find time to make it a snooze and a half?

Because this manages to do it and make it look easy.

This is simply a very meh situation.

I did not like the author's other book, Tweet Cute, very much, but I did not think it was BORING. In fact I thought it was funny and promising but simply annoying.

This had none of the flavor. None of the pizzazz. Nothing in this could have annoyed me, because I was too busy not caring.

A minor tragedy. But I'll get over it.

Due to the whole not-caring thing.

Bottom line: Bummer! But not really.

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pre-review

the defining characteristics of summer aren't "meh" and "boring" and "ugh," so i take back what i said about this being the summeriest thing ever.

review to come / 2ish stars

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tbr review

have you ever seen anything summerier?

also, can you believe summerier is not marked as a typo?

buddy read with lily and all is right with the world

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reading all books with LGBTQ+ rep for pride this month!

book 1: the gravity of us
book 2: the great american whatever
book 3: wild beauty
book 4: the affair of the mysterious letter
book 5: how we fight for our lives
book 6: blue lily, lily blue
book 7: the times i knew i was gay
book 8: conventionally yours
book 9: the hollow inside
book 10: nimona
book 11: dark and deepest red
book 12: the house in the cerulean sea
book 13: the raven king
book 14: violet ghosts
book 15: as far as you'll take me
book 16: bad feminist
book 17: a song for a new day
book 18: one last stop
book 19: to break a covenant
book 20: honey girl
book 21: check, please!
book 22: the subtweet
book 23: if we were villains
book 24: everything leads to you
book 25: you have a match