it was like he was a hydrogen molecule and i was the oxygen. i was drawn to him. we completed each other.
lynn rush & kelly anne blount
Series: Twin River High #2
Release Date: May 17th 2021
Publisher: Entangled Publishing LLC
Genre: Young Adult Fiction | Contemporary | Romance
Page Count: 274
Source: I received an advance reader’s copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. Thank you!
Goodreads Summary: Hope Chambers has a major problem. She’s spent the entirety of her four years of high school focusing on being perfect—perfect grades, perfect extracurriculars, perfect essays—to the point that she forgot to get a life. And now she’s perfectly boring. She’s got exactly two weeks before her admissions interview for MIT to spice up her life and get a personality, dammit. And she knows exactly who can help her: soccer star and Mr. Popularity himself, Landon Watkins. But how does a nerdy, socially awkward girl ask the most charismatic guy in school to help her become interesting? Saving his life in the school cafeteria is a pretty good start. No one is more surprised than Hope when Landon agrees to help her. But what he proposes they do takes her so far out of her shell, she’s practically in a different ocean. And when she starts falling for the last guy she ever expected to, it has her second-guessing every decision she’s ever made…
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This book was adorable! While I enjoyed its predecessor Gutter Girl, I liked this installment even more. Keeping the spirit of complex characters from the previous book, this book has a softer, sweeter side which really adds a nice mix to the series.
I loved the characters so so much in this book! Hope is really so endearing. I loved her relatability in being shy and feeling more comfortable in the academic world than the social world of school. Her rambling of trivia facts when she was nervous had me giggling multiple times while reading and the Gemini side of me loved learning new things from her during her word vomits. Her determination to achieve her goals, being accepted into MIT in this case, is really inspiring as a reader and I admired the way she didn’t let her mind get the better of her and kept pushing herself to do things that scared her and make new experiences, even if she sometimes ended up embarrassing herself.
Landon was the perfect match to Hope for this book. I think I love him even more than Jace from the previous novel. His roll-with-the-punches attitude balanced Hope’s more serious side so well and I loved seeing his character growth throughout the story. His situation with his parents and then with his grandparents would set any person back and I feel like his grief was portrayed in such a real, palpable way without being too overbearing of a theme in the book.
The romance in this was seriously so cute. I loved the pairs’ interactions and the way they got to know each other. I’m always a fan of relationships that have a certain ease to them, the feel that you’re truly meant to be with this person, and these two have it. I also think it’s neat to have a couple with an older girl and younger guy and love the variety it added to the series.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book. The characters are quirky and relatable and I loved that the authors brought back our favorite characters from the first book, Jace and McKenna, so we could see how life was progressing for them. I think this is a really fun series so far and I’m eager to jump into the next book, Chaos Theory.
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