This review (and a fun author Top Ten Addictions list!) and many more can be found on my blog: Feed Your Fiction Addiction
This delightful YA contemporThis review (and a fun author Top Ten Addictions list!) and many more can be found on my blog: Feed Your Fiction Addiction
This delightful YA contemporary romance explores the complicated quandaries that can occur when pursuing your dreams, regardless of the costs. Ro writes an app (with the help of a behavioral scientist) that can predict a person’s future with 93% accuracy. When a company offers to financially back the project, she believes it’s her ticket to achieving her grandest goals before she’s even out of high school. But success comes at a cost, and she finds herself having to make all sorts of moral concessions along the way. She starts to wonder if it’s worth it, or if the people she’s hurting equal a price too high to pay. I loved the fact that this book examines the ways we all make excuses when we really want something. It’s easy to ignore that little voice in the back of your head that tells you something’s wrong when you’re desperate for everything to go right. Ro knows in her gut that the company she’s working with is twisting her app in ways she doesn’t believe in, but she ignores those internal warnings because she feels like she has to make the app succeed to pursue her dreams. It all feels very believable—that’s human nature. Then there’s the romance. I’m a complete sucker for the best-friends-to-lovers trope, and if you throw in a side dish of “enemies” to go with it? Well, that’s all the better. Ro and Miller are easy to root for, even when they’re cold toward each other because they have years of history to fall back on. O’Clover deftly winds that history into the story so that we feel the connection between them. And, finally, the book packs a punch with a clever twist that made so much sense but that I still never saw coming. The best kind of storytelling! I highly recommend this book to fans of YA contemporary.l
***Disclosure: I received this book from the author (actually, technically I received it from a friend who received it from the author) for review purposes. As always, all opinions are my own and no compensation was given.***...more
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