The quick cut: A teen girl in her senior year of high school teams up with her ex to pull off the senior prank. Chaos ensues when emotions come back for one another.
A real review:
Senior year is known for its seminal moments that everyone loves to think about: prom, graduation, you know them. For this school, one of those moments is the senior prank done by the elusive Jester. This year, Lily finds out she knows the Jester well - it's her ex.
Lily is the typical good girl who always follows the rules, gets her homework done of time, and gets great grades. So when she decides to shed her good girl ways the last week of high school, she gets tapped by the Jester to help with the senior prank. The only difficult part? Turns out this years Jester is her ex - Tag. Will working together on this create more drama than expected?
For the most part, this is a lighthearted story that really captures that feeling of what senior year feels like when you're in high school: nervousness about the future, excitement to be graduating, and overwhelming need for freedom. It does have some moments of seriousness, but for the most part they are at the end of the story.
Lily follows the rules, which makes sense considering her mom is a teacher at her school. Before she graduates, she wants that good girl image mucked up at least a little bit. Considering I had that image in high school of being predictable and dependable, I can absolutely relate.
Lily's ex Tag is a great match for her because he gets her to act free and little less constrained. I love that his character provides disability representation in the form of his diabetes, especially with how he doesn't let it stop him from living his life. We need more of that, especially the examples of how that changes preparation and handling crashes in blood sugar.
My only gripe is the ending. The book moves quickly but then the end puts on the breaks and slows down. I'm a fast paced reader though, so that explains my frustrations.
A fun, light contemporary read.
My rating: 4 out of 5