MOST LIKELY and A Few Other Books You Should Read

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MOST LIKELY and A Few Other Books You Should Read

For the second year in a row, I completed author Jessica Brody’s 30 Books in 3 Months summer reading challenge on Instagram. You can see all of the books I read over the summer in the image below, and I already posted mini-reviews on a few of them. Keep reading for a few more, but if you have questions about any of the books I didn’t cover, feel free to ask in the comments!

On to the reviews! I never review everything I read, and as I posted a couple of weeks ago, I was a bit overwhelmed with life and got behind, so here’s a roundup of the last several mini-reviews I posted on Instagram.

How often do you read a book and find yourself completely blown away by the ending? That’s how I felt at the end of MOST LIKELY by Sarah Watson.

I love the setup of this book. It opens with a woman about to be inaugurated as president, holding the hand of her husband, who she met while in high school. We’re also given the clue that she was pressured at some point in her political career to take his kind of goofy last name. Then the story flashes back to senior year of high school and four best friends, all of whom keep encountering a boy with this same last name.

There are so many things I loved about this book—how individual each of these girls’ goals and struggles were, the strength of their friendship, their passion for saving the park where they met as kindergartners. The four POVs are extremely well done—so well done that I stayed in suspense about which girl would end up with the boy whose last name matched the soon-to-be-president’s husband right up to the end. Add in one scene that made me both swoon and laugh at the same time and multiple gasp-out-loud moments, and this became a book I will read again.

I’m really glad I read this on my Kindle the first time because I totally would have peeked at the ending and ruined it, but I will now have to get a hard copy too.

I read romance novels, and unlike Rowan in TODAY TONIGHT TOMORROW by Rachel Lynn Solomon, I didn’t keep it a secret in high school. I even posted it as my goal in the yearbook that I wanted to write them—although after attempting a few, I later discovered YA and found that was a better fit for me.