Content warnings: on page panic attacks, anxiety.

Rep: cis, white, lesbian MC with ADHD and anxiety. Trans girl, white, love interest who's also autistic. Plenty of POC, plenty of queer, plenty of non-binary rep, and everyone (but 2/3?) characters are neurodivergent - it's amazing.


People will say "this is SO YA/teen" but that's a GOOD thing! The MC is 15 throughout the majority of this book. She turns 16 around the halfway mark. It's filled with big feelings, and big emotions and that's exactly what it is being a 15 year old - feeling there is nothing that can go right, and plenty that can go wrong. I fricken LOVED this book.

Hayley was so relatable and such a fun person to read about. She's 15, she's enjoying her summer. She loves basketball, her friends, and she wants to stop crushing on a cute straight girl and find someone who will actually her back!

There are some beautifully written scenes in here regarding coming out - Hayley's youngest sibling, Sam, comes out as nonbinary during the book and it made me tear up.

There's so many fun, cute things throughout this book, and there are peppered in harder moments feeling not enough. Which are all relatable for teens.

This was just really lovely.11 s1 comment andrea815 161 Read

thank you to ABRAMS Kids and NetGalley for the advanced digital arc of this one.

this is out May 7, 2024

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i'm struggling with this one.

when i heard that this book featured a femme lesbian and her trans best friend making a pact to find love during their summer on the beach, pride, and especially at a MUNA concert, i was in.

unfortunately, for as much this book did making sure you knew the very specific identity of every single character that walked through a page, a very real person, Naomi McPherson from MUNA, was misgendered around the halfway mark.

i do not know if this was the author or an editor that didn't do research but Naomi McPherson has been using they/them pronouns for years and for a book that's supposed to be queer and joyful i kinda think that's inexcusable.

i very much hope that this will be corrected in the final copy, which i will check out upon release and edit my review accordingly.arc contemporary dnf ...more10 s Aster305 132

me as a teen vibes kindadiverse-sapphic-ya-tbr4 s Read_with_charl140 7

I love how inclusive this book is, it was wonderful to read a story with a variety of characters. Unfortunately, this book just was not for me: I personally didn’t enjoy the writing and the story just felt a little flat. Such a shame as the representation is there and I really wanted to love it, but the pace was too slow, and I wasn’t hooked.

Thank you NetGalley and ABRAMS Kids for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.netgalley4 s Maya Turner313 6

This was a cute read! Definitely felt a high school summer book!! Love how diverse the entire cast is!! It is wonderful seeing queer, neurodivergent young adults thriving, living their best lives!!3 s rey243

Thanks a lot to Edelweiss for the ARC.

Unfortunately, that was a dnf for me. I wanted to love this book so bad. It’s filled with beautiful representations and it was handled well as well. It didn’t feel forced representation, for we already live in a diverse environment anyway. It was balanced perfectly.

However, the writing of the book completely threw me off. Sometimes I’m able to ignore the writing style if I’m enjoying the story and the characters, but it was almost impossible with this book. It’s good to have a book focused on teen characters, however, they felt more “how adults think teens are ” rather than actual teenagers.

Just because the book is set in our current timeline and is more modernized doesn’t mean that it should have social media type of dialogues or text- writing. (writing OK instead of okay for example). Yes, we do text in our own way and among friends we use inside social media language or pop culture jokes. However, our vocabulary isn’t limited with that. It started to feel reading a Twitter thread rather than an actual book.

I’d also to add how disappointing it was to see the characters make an assumption on a friend’s gender and sexuality based on stereotypes. A specific fashion style doesn’t mean one person identifies as a specific gender or so. People can experiment with different fashion styles without it being related to their identity. It was extra to see it by a queer author. Maybe it was their own experience, however, it’s never nice to generalize things or lean on stereotypes to figure people out.arc read-in-english2 s Hannah131

this was the type of situation where i read the perfect book at the perfect time. it was so “people be cute have good time”, famously my favorite genre. i had been feeling a lot of uncertainty/doubt about a lot of things in my life and even though this book was about teenagers (embarassing) reading it was just “ok hannah it really is all gonna be okay”. i loved the first half. the main character was so anxious about everything but that’s really what it’s being 15/16 sometimes!! and also a little felt me as a teenager (i know my bestie from high school is reading this…hi loser i dare you to read this book). in the second half i d it less, probably because i know enough about friendship and feelings to just KNOW how much people were gonna end up unintentionally hurting each others feelings, and because there was a certain trope i don’t love but probably would’ve been more obvious to me if i’d actually read the blurb. also basketball! there really was no antagonist, it was a big group of friends who really cared about each other and had big feelings and wanted to do the right thing but sometimes made mistakes - which is really just how it goes! anyways. i’ve d everything i’ve read by this author so it was nice to read their newest book, a good start to the summer read.2 s Mia Reads Romance388 23

This review was a bit difficult for me to write. This book was well written and captured what it can feel to be a teenager trying to figure out who you are and the best way to relate to others. For me as an adult, that wasn't very fun to read about. Being a teenager can be hard and overwhelming and it's not really something I want to revisit. However, I'm not the target audience for this book! I could see it being incredibly comforting for an adolescent to know other people shared their feelings and experiences.

I also thought the mental health issues were handled with care and accuracy. I dealt with generalized anxiety as a teenager and I worried about a lot of the things that Hayley worries about. A lot of Haley's worries are about relationships but adolescence is a very socially focused time. I did that the book talked about learning how to have relationships with different people and communicating.

I think if you want to know what it feels to be this age and a bit anxious or you are a teenager this is a great choice! I think if you mostly enjoy YA with older characters this one won't be for you. The main character is 15 and definitely deals with 15-year-old problems.

Thanks to ABRAMS Kids for the eARC! All opinions are my own.arcs closed-door friends-to-lovers ...more2 s Shannon5,621 317

A super fun queer friends to lovers YA summer romance with great neurodiversity and trans rep as two friends try to find love over the summer and discover they might just have it where they weren't looking for it. Great on audio by a new fav author! Highly recommended! Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review!lgbtqia neurodiversity trans-books ...more2 s Emily510 30 Want to read

From the rights report: "a YA romance in which Hayley and Talia, two best friends who decide to help each other find love by emulating rom-coms, end up falling for each other instead."1 Courtney Holliday101 1 follower

*gifted ARC* This was precious
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