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Better Than Revenge
by Kasie West
For the longest time I thought I was done with YA, everything I read from this genre just didn’t work for me anymore. But now I’ve read two great YA books back to back, so maybe there’s hope for me yet.
Because this was such a good time, like it wasn’t perfect, but I had a smile on my face the whole way through and that’s what I want out of a romance.
Finley, the fmc, has big aspirations to become a podcaster. So she wants to get on the school podcast, but her boyfriend Jensen straight up steals her spot by also stealing her material for the audition. Which of course only leaves her with one option: revenge (and breaking up with him ofc).
So she decides to steal his spot as kicker on the football team. But to become the kicker she needs help and who’d be better suited to help than the former star kicker on the team, Theo. Who conveniently is also Jensen’s nemesis.
This was just a super fun read. The characters were great, I liked Finley a lot. Theo grew on me and her friends and family were a perfect addition.
The story basically covers three plot points: the revenge, the love story and Finley’s grandma’s (love) story. And all of that worked very well together. The revenge planning with her friends was funny, the love story was so cute, and surprisingly I even liked her grandma’s story.
Some things didn’t quite make sense to me, like why Finley was so obsessed with getting this podcast internship at the university. Like girl, there are millions of podcasts that probably started out in someone’s garage. Anyone can just start a podcast at any point, all you really need is a good idea and some sort of recording device. That was a bit strange to me.
Also, the grand gesture?! In front of the whole school? Who likes that? Also, who DOES that? Maybe I’m being dramatic, but I hate reading about grand gestures because it always sounds like such a nightmare to me. And the one in here wasn’t even that bad but still.. To quote Finley: You didn’t have to be so dramatic about it.
But these are just small things that didn’t really take away from the story too much.
Overall it was as cute and fun and lighthearted as the cover promised and I loved it.
Because this was such a good time, like it wasn’t perfect, but I had a smile on my face the whole way through and that’s what I want out of a romance.
Finley, the fmc, has big aspirations to become a podcaster. So she wants to get on the school podcast, but her boyfriend Jensen straight up steals her spot by also stealing her material for the audition. Which of course only leaves her with one option: revenge (and breaking up with him ofc).
So she decides to steal his spot as kicker on the football team. But to become the kicker she needs help and who’d be better suited to help than the former star kicker on the team, Theo. Who conveniently is also Jensen’s nemesis.
This was just a super fun read. The characters were great, I liked Finley a lot. Theo grew on me and her friends and family were a perfect addition.
The story basically covers three plot points: the revenge, the love story and Finley’s grandma’s (love) story. And all of that worked very well together. The revenge planning with her friends was funny, the love story was so cute, and surprisingly I even liked her grandma’s story.
Some things didn’t quite make sense to me, like why Finley was so obsessed with getting this podcast internship at the university. Like girl, there are millions of podcasts that probably started out in someone’s garage. Anyone can just start a podcast at any point, all you really need is a good idea and some sort of recording device. That was a bit strange to me.
Also, the grand gesture?! In front of the whole school? Who likes that? Also, who DOES that? Maybe I’m being dramatic, but I hate reading about grand gestures because it always sounds like such a nightmare to me. And the one in here wasn’t even that bad but still.. To quote Finley: You didn’t have to be so dramatic about it.
But these are just small things that didn’t really take away from the story too much.
Overall it was as cute and fun and lighthearted as the cover promised and I loved it.