I Wish You Would by Eva Des Lauriers

The quick cut: A guy and girl who are best friends have their prom night go wrong and avoid each other all summer. That ends when they have to work together to find escaped letters. 

A real review:

 Thank you to Henry Holt and Co for providing the arc for an honest review. 

 Feelings make everything complicated, especially when you're best friend is a different gender than you. For Natalia and Ethan, they nearly ruin their friendship on junior prom. 

 Natalia and Ethan have been friends for a long time. On their junior prom night, they make a mistake that causes Natalia to avoid Ethan and Ethan to wish he could take his actions back. When they spend a summer apart, they meet again for a school tradition where the seniors write letters to themselves. Except Natalia accidentally lost a few and needs to get them back. Can they do it together? Or be apart forever? 

 I actually really loved the first half of this book and it really fell apart by the end. These two are friends with a lot of unspoken truths between them. They needed to get those out, but the problem is that if these were really their issues - I seriously doubt their friendship would've lasted this long. 

 The chapters go back and forth between Natalia and Ethan narrating. Each one gives you a glimpse into what they're experiencing internally. I quickly got frustrated with their inability to be honest to each other. Some of the melodrama was distracting rather than adding to the story. 

 I did like the concept here, but you needed a lot more editing and character development to make that work. Right now, all I can see are the plot holes and mistakes littered all over the page. 

 A fun concept with a flat execution. 

My rating: 3 out of 5