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by Emma Lord
I have a reading hangover.
I have read four books in the last seven days.
Four. 4. Books. As in, full-length novels.
I guess my reading slump is over. Though I do still spend some time on Pinterest every few days looking at funny re-pinned tumbler posts - which is weirdly applicable to this book now that I'm thinking about it.
This book was crazy, and not just because it was stupidly cute. I was a senior fifteen years ago o.0 (2020-2005=15................................................................) but this book and everything they were going through with college apps was the same things that I was going through.
The winter of either my junior or senior year for my drama final I wrote, directed, and then had the other kids in my class perform a skit about these kids that were in a room and had random parts of themselves measured with this measuring tape and then some were taken away to be killed and some were let through. In the end, the protagonist was hung by said measuring tape.
My drama teacher asked me if I was ok. At the time I thought I was fine and was just letting out some frustration and fear over college applications, but maybe, perhaps, I was more than just a little stressed.
When did the SAT first enter our lives? I don't remember my parents blabbing about them When did college applications become the way they are? With a line for extracurriculars and GPAs and this hanging need to do all you can do or else your future will be taken from you?
Maybe other people didn't feel like this. Maybe it really was just Pepper and me in the universe, but I still remember the morning after all of us got our rejection emails from Standford saying we didn't get in and our IB English teacher just let us rant for a whole two hours instead of trying to make us do any work.
Obviously I didn't die.
SO! Other than all that teenage angst.... OMGG PEPPERJACK AHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! ;P
This was a really cute book with two characters that just made me smile the whole way through. That being said, this book had a whole lot more than I was expecting. Like I was told the idea, and that was what I got, but in the same way as you look at a postcard to get an idea of what your trip to Hawaii is going to be like. You see the ocean, and a sunset, and a palm tree, and it looks pretty great! And when you get there yeah, you get those things - but then there is sooooo much more.
So yes, you got a cute couple with a quirky twitter war, but then there was a whoooolllleeeee lot of other coming-of-age stuff. I honestly wasn't expecting it, so when I got to the end of their twitter war, or their plan to see each other, or him figuring it out, I would think "ok, this is the happy ending"- but then it didn't end! There was just so much more that kept happening and you realize that this story isn't about two kids having a twitter war, that was just a part of the bigger story that was going on! And yes, I know I just described alll books everywhere.
I want to blab about how I was so flip-floppy about which of the two parents I was most angry at, and then how I was thrown off a cliff by how abruptly the ending felt to me - but then the epilogue was so perfect that it made everything better, but I'm just not really feeling up for it.
This book was so cute and happy and I'm going to read it every year because of the smile I know it'll bring me.
The End
<3
Oh yeah, one more point. This book, according to the twitter posts is supposed to happen next fall. Yeah, we'll see if next fall even happens.
Update: this story is still soooooo cute! Though I still have a hard time swallowing how much of a jerk Jack’s dad was. But I guess it had to be something big enough for her to try and smash his business in the ground. That was the only big cringe worth thing. But this is another book that passes the read twice test - so now I must buy it. *dramatic pose*
I have read four books in the last seven days.
Four. 4. Books. As in, full-length novels.
I guess my reading slump is over. Though I do still spend some time on Pinterest every few days looking at funny re-pinned tumbler posts - which is weirdly applicable to this book now that I'm thinking about it.
This book was crazy, and not just because it was stupidly cute. I was a senior fifteen years ago o.0 (2020-2005=15................................................................) but this book and everything they were going through with college apps was the same things that I was going through.
The winter of either my junior or senior year for my drama final I wrote, directed, and then had the other kids in my class perform a skit about these kids that were in a room and had random parts of themselves measured with this measuring tape and then some were taken away to be killed and some were let through. In the end, the protagonist was hung by said measuring tape.
My drama teacher asked me if I was ok. At the time I thought I was fine and was just letting out some frustration and fear over college applications, but maybe, perhaps, I was more than just a little stressed.
When did the SAT first enter our lives? I don't remember my parents blabbing about them When did college applications become the way they are? With a line for extracurriculars and GPAs and this hanging need to do all you can do or else your future will be taken from you?
Maybe other people didn't feel like this. Maybe it really was just Pepper and me in the universe, but I still remember the morning after all of us got our rejection emails from Standford saying we didn't get in and our IB English teacher just let us rant for a whole two hours instead of trying to make us do any work.
Obviously I didn't die.
SO! Other than all that teenage angst.... OMGG PEPPERJACK AHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! ;P
This was a really cute book with two characters that just made me smile the whole way through. That being said, this book had a whole lot more than I was expecting. Like I was told the idea, and that was what I got, but in the same way as you look at a postcard to get an idea of what your trip to Hawaii is going to be like. You see the ocean, and a sunset, and a palm tree, and it looks pretty great! And when you get there yeah, you get those things - but then there is sooooo much more.
So yes, you got a cute couple with a quirky twitter war, but then there was a whoooolllleeeee lot of other coming-of-age stuff. I honestly wasn't expecting it, so when I got to the end of their twitter war, or their plan to see each other, or him figuring it out, I would think "ok, this is the happy ending"- but then it didn't end! There was just so much more that kept happening and you realize that this story isn't about two kids having a twitter war, that was just a part of the bigger story that was going on! And yes, I know I just described alll books everywhere.
I want to blab about how I was so flip-floppy about which of the two parents I was most angry at, and then how I was thrown off a cliff by how abruptly the ending felt to me - but then the epilogue was so perfect that it made everything better, but I'm just not really feeling up for it.
This book was so cute and happy and I'm going to read it every year because of the smile I know it'll bring me.
The End
<3
Oh yeah, one more point. This book, according to the twitter posts is supposed to happen next fall. Yeah, we'll see if next fall even happens.
Update: this story is still soooooo cute! Though I still have a hard time swallowing how much of a jerk Jack’s dad was. But I guess it had to be something big enough for her to try and smash his business in the ground. That was the only big cringe worth thing. But this is another book that passes the read twice test - so now I must buy it. *dramatic pose*