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A review by saschadarlington
It's Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill
4.0
Beck was born in the bathroom of the local pizza place, making her a minor celebrity for one day a year as her family celebrates her birthday there every year and the local newspaper snaps her picture. Just once she’d like to celebrate somewhere else. Del, the owner of the shop, has even promised her a job there on her 16th birthday and, since she can’t find a job anywhere else, it looks like she’ll be working there.
It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill is a light-hearted YA romance that is indeed sometimes cheesy and rightly so. Beck is a closet nerd who can’t really be herself around her friends. She can’t talk to them about the sci-fi show she loves and watches zealously with her dad so she hides that part of herself away until she starts working at the pizza restaurant where her colleagues are fans of the show.
While It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story is considered a romance, I found it to be more a novel of self-discovery as Beck comes to terms with who she is, who her friends are, and her own place in the world. She evolves throughout the novel, learning that one of the best things you can do is be true to yourself.
My favorite character was Beck’s love interest, Tristan, who comes across as initially broody but who has his life admirably put together. He doesn’t care what others think of him and doesn’t like artifice. He is cool.
It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story struck all of the right notes for me. I totally enjoyed this YA escapist fare and, of course, immediately ordered a pizza when I finished reading.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill is a light-hearted YA romance that is indeed sometimes cheesy and rightly so. Beck is a closet nerd who can’t really be herself around her friends. She can’t talk to them about the sci-fi show she loves and watches zealously with her dad so she hides that part of herself away until she starts working at the pizza restaurant where her colleagues are fans of the show.
While It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story is considered a romance, I found it to be more a novel of self-discovery as Beck comes to terms with who she is, who her friends are, and her own place in the world. She evolves throughout the novel, learning that one of the best things you can do is be true to yourself.
My favorite character was Beck’s love interest, Tristan, who comes across as initially broody but who has his life admirably put together. He doesn’t care what others think of him and doesn’t like artifice. He is cool.
It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story struck all of the right notes for me. I totally enjoyed this YA escapist fare and, of course, immediately ordered a pizza when I finished reading.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.