The quick cut: A teen girl with a physical disability finds herself desperate to prove she's like the rest of her family when it comes to love.
A real review:
Thank you to Wednesday Books for providing the arc for an honest review.
Family legacies can be tricky. While they may give you a built in goal or destiny, they can also feel constraining in the way that they don't let you really do what you want. For Piper, that's very true with her family that believes in Fate and true love.
Piper's family has a blessing: they all know when they meet their true love at first sight. Sealed with a kiss, each of her family members talks about the epic love they have. So when her parents get divorced, she's afraid it will curse her to never get her true love. Can she follow the family legacy?
I wanted to like this book so bad and it has all the elements to be a good book for me. Unfortunately, I ended up hating all the characters by the end because in this scenario: everyone sucks.
Let me explain: this is your classic rom-com scenario where the girl's best friend is secretly in love with her. The best friend guides the girl on seducing her goal guy. There's a plethora of movies on it.
Except here's the problem: everyone makes choices here that makes them a bad guy. The best friend helps the girl, but then sabotages her. The girl plays two guys while she figures out what she wants. She manipulates her parents to get them to get back together. It's rude, selfish, and mean.
While the main character has physical disabilities, it's barely even addressed as an important part of her life. Such a missed opportunity to address a topic many with disabilities struggle with.
A young adult story with unlikable characters.
My rating: 2.5 out of 5
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