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gggina13 's review for:
You Have a Match
by Emma Lord
Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for the advance copy!
4.5 stars. This was so cute and heartfelt. It’s so crazy to me the ways different contemporary authors utilize their ~300 pages. All the characters felt so fleshed out, and there were a lot!
I love books about family, and about found family, and this book is about both PLUS a found family who is actually family. I like how the author made this book equally about romance and about family - it didn’t feel like either side of the story was skimped on to make it work.
This is just a story about a messy girl who has a messy summer and makes great friends and gets to know her sister and herself. There’s great open communication, even if it was long overdue, between Abby and her parents. Abby’s best friend, who isn’t even at the summer camp the story takes place at, is still a fleshed-out character. I think there’s a lot of authenticity in this story and it makes it really fun.
I wish this story was more racially diverse. Not quite everyone was white, but nearly everyone was (I honestly could have missed it in people’s descriptions though - that’s one of my weak spots.) There was wlw representation, though, and a *possibly* asexual character.
My other gripe is HARRY POTTER REFERENCES IN MODERN YA. Please, for the love of god. There are other books that exist. There were Shakespeare references in here that were WAY more fun than the old Harry Potter ones. I’ve seen Gen Z ruthlessly mock millennials on tiktok for obsessing over Harry Potter and we still can’t go 300 pages in a book FOR THEM without mentioning it?
Culmination of my constantly mounting Harry Potter disdain aside, I really enjoyed this story and the main character’s growth and development over her summer at camp, and I’m already looking forward to the next Emma Lord story.
4.5 stars. This was so cute and heartfelt. It’s so crazy to me the ways different contemporary authors utilize their ~300 pages. All the characters felt so fleshed out, and there were a lot!
I love books about family, and about found family, and this book is about both PLUS a found family who is actually family. I like how the author made this book equally about romance and about family - it didn’t feel like either side of the story was skimped on to make it work.
This is just a story about a messy girl who has a messy summer and makes great friends and gets to know her sister and herself. There’s great open communication, even if it was long overdue, between Abby and her parents. Abby’s best friend, who isn’t even at the summer camp the story takes place at, is still a fleshed-out character. I think there’s a lot of authenticity in this story and it makes it really fun.
I wish this story was more racially diverse. Not quite everyone was white, but nearly everyone was (I honestly could have missed it in people’s descriptions though - that’s one of my weak spots.) There was wlw representation, though, and a *possibly* asexual character.
My other gripe is HARRY POTTER REFERENCES IN MODERN YA. Please, for the love of god. There are other books that exist. There were Shakespeare references in here that were WAY more fun than the old Harry Potter ones. I’ve seen Gen Z ruthlessly mock millennials on tiktok for obsessing over Harry Potter and we still can’t go 300 pages in a book FOR THEM without mentioning it?
Culmination of my constantly mounting Harry Potter disdain aside, I really enjoyed this story and the main character’s growth and development over her summer at camp, and I’m already looking forward to the next Emma Lord story.