Started: January 7th | Finished: January 14th
TSM Rating: 4/5

Remember high school? Remember crushing on someone so hard your stomach felt like it was going to drop out? This book has all of those sweet, tingly, first love feels and more. I first fell in love with Talia Hibbert when I read Get a Life, Chloe Brown (totally out of order for that book series😳). She writes such strong, complex female characters, and you can’t help but love them, flaws and all. She handles each of her characters’ issues with such grace and humor it makes any of her readers who see themselves — or perhaps their children — in the characters feel seen and understood.

Celine and Bradley’s love story is so genuine and so mature for two kids who are trying to navigate one of the most pivotal years in a young person’s life. I loved how Hibbert infused the story with so much raw teenage angst that you couldn’t help but relate and hope they found their way to each other the way most of us often don’t.