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A review by thebookberrie
Kate in Waiting by Becky Albertalli
3.0
Kate in Waiting is about a girl named Kate (lol) who always shares crushes with her best friend Anderson. After their summer crush, Matt, ends up at their school everything goes off script as they make a deal to both go after him. Kate actually really likes Matt but the problem is, so does Anderson.
I had a better time listening to this than I did when I read the arc months ago but I still had some issues. Overall this book was really sweet and cute though. All the friends and family were so wholesome too. I loved the theater kid vibes and all the things about the show. It reminds me of my days in school when I was in choir!
But oh my god I just hate love triangles (squares?? whatever this was) and I hated Anderson. This is a thing I realized about myself while reading this but I've never really had crushes on people back in school. The strong desire to fall in love and be with my crush in between classes or across the cafeteria? Can't relate. So reading about this boy and girl and their constant thirst and crushes I was just like okay cool story.
Anderson was the worst character. I know we see things from Kate's POV and how he completely screws her over but he was just so annoying even before then. I know some things were out of his control but no I wanted to fight him and his friendship with Kate was obnoxious. For something that was most of this book, I didn't have a fun time there.
But I still liked this enough and I'm so glad Becky Albertalli wrote something on her own again and not with a certain other author she has worked with before that I do not like.
I had a better time listening to this than I did when I read the arc months ago but I still had some issues. Overall this book was really sweet and cute though. All the friends and family were so wholesome too. I loved the theater kid vibes and all the things about the show. It reminds me of my days in school when I was in choir!
But oh my god I just hate love triangles (squares?? whatever this was) and I hated Anderson. This is a thing I realized about myself while reading this but I've never really had crushes on people back in school. The strong desire to fall in love and be with my crush in between classes or across the cafeteria? Can't relate. So reading about this boy and girl and their constant thirst and crushes I was just like okay cool story.
Anderson was the worst character. I know we see things from Kate's POV and how he completely screws her over but he was just so annoying even before then. I know some things were out of his control but no I wanted to fight him and his friendship with Kate was obnoxious. For something that was most of this book, I didn't have a fun time there.
But I still liked this enough and I'm so glad Becky Albertalli wrote something on her own again and not with a certain other author she has worked with before that I do not like.