A review by josiletizia
Sunkissed by Kasie West

lighthearted fast-paced

2.75

Well this was okay. There are some ya books that really hit the mark and deal with important aspects of growing up and- i guess this kind of applied here? It was sweet and cute and you could detect the message this book had from the beginning. But even though i am around the age of Avery (fmc) her problems seemed so different from problems i had. It just felt like this was the perspective of an adult author. The conflict wasn’t very profound as the author hoped, it just felt like she was making a bigger deal out of it than it was. And also in no world do teenagers have deep conversations about “stuff they’re running from” in the first week of knowing eachother. And i could not take any of them seriously when they said any curse word “frick” “screw you” woah okay buddy hold your horses. This felt like a ya books meant for middle schoolers, not people in a similar age group.
I won’t talk about the whole main character moment she had when she was the deciding factor that the band??? her boyfriend?? and her were playing in won the?? undiscovered bands song contest??? How out of this world is this? “His future is music” okay calm down he probably won’t be famous in the next 5 years. And also why would she even sing when she hadn’t practiced for two weeks and the day of the contest decides she will sing? What