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P.S. I Like You
by Kasie West
ya know what screw it, this book is five stars to ME
Kasie West's older stuff is literally so good. Like yes it's a cheesy-sometimes-cringy ya romance BUT it's actually so well done. This story uses tropes but it wasn't written around them, so the overall book is actually realistic and well-rounded. And the moments of cringe really aren't that bad; I found them to be perfectly fitting to how teenagers actually act, so I respected it (a nostalgic cringe, if you will).
If this was published today it would be marketed as an enemies-to-lovers, which I usually don't like, but here it's done well! Our main couple had different ways of tackling issues that at first seemed antagonistic, but once they were able to properly communicate they were able to understand each other. And we as the audience can see right away that the love interest never was a bad guy, just that that was Lily's perception of him. They also had actually cute banter; all of their interactions showed that they had chemistry as characters, which made it fun to root for their relationship.
I'm intentionally not naming the love interest here, as I don't think it's obvious who it is for the first little bit of the story, which I found fun! But his identity is revealed at the right time—in fact, I think the pacing for this whole story was really great. Nothing happened to fast, but also things weren't unnecessarily dragged out to add drama.
I also really liked Lily's family, they were all quirky but loving and it felt like an actual family. Lily was also quirky (not in a not-like-other-girls way, don't worry), and her character was written in a way that showed it well. (And then it was cute when her and the love interest got together, as it was a bit of a hipster/mainstream pairing.)
This book just totally fit the niche of what I want when I'm in the mood for a ya romance <3
Kasie West's older stuff is literally so good. Like yes it's a cheesy-sometimes-cringy ya romance BUT it's actually so well done. This story uses tropes but it wasn't written around them, so the overall book is actually realistic and well-rounded. And the moments of cringe really aren't that bad; I found them to be perfectly fitting to how teenagers actually act, so I respected it (a nostalgic cringe, if you will).
If this was published today it would be marketed as an enemies-to-lovers, which I usually don't like, but here it's done well! Our main couple had different ways of tackling issues that at first seemed antagonistic, but once they were able to properly communicate they were able to understand each other. And we as the audience can see right away that the love interest never was a bad guy, just that that was Lily's perception of him. They also had actually cute banter; all of their interactions showed that they had chemistry as characters, which made it fun to root for their relationship.
I'm intentionally not naming the love interest here, as I don't think it's obvious who it is for the first little bit of the story, which I found fun! But his identity is revealed at the right time—in fact, I think the pacing for this whole story was really great. Nothing happened to fast, but also things weren't unnecessarily dragged out to add drama.
I also really liked Lily's family, they were all quirky but loving and it felt like an actual family. Lily was also quirky (not in a not-like-other-girls way, don't worry), and her character was written in a way that showed it well. (And then it was cute when her and the love interest got together, as it was a bit of a hipster/mainstream pairing.)
This book just totally fit the niche of what I want when I'm in the mood for a ya romance <3