Rating (Out of 5): ~3.5
Genre: YA/NA Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Simon & Shuster
Release Date: 2018
Spoilers?: No.
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Goodreads Synopsis:
“Smart and funny,
with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care
packages. I loved this book.” —Rainbow Rowell
From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.
For Penny Lee, high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she’d somehow landed a boyfriend, they never managed to know much about each other. Now Penny is heading to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer. It’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind.
Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a cafĂ© and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him.
When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to, you know, see each other.
From debut author Mary H.K. Choi comes a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory—perfect for fans of Eleanor & Park and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before.
For Penny Lee, high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she’d somehow landed a boyfriend, they never managed to know much about each other. Now Penny is heading to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer. It’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind.
Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a cafĂ© and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him.
When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute and more a collision of unbearable awkwardness. Still, they swap numbers and stay in touch—via text—and soon become digitally inseparable, sharing their deepest anxieties and secret dreams without the humiliating weirdness of having to, you know, see each other.
Review:
Penny is finally away from home, in college, and away from her high
school life. Sam works at a coffee shop and tries to write, but is
currently stuck where he is. Neither of them really know how to
interact or what to do with themselves. Penny has a new roommate, and
is trying to get away from her immature mother, and Sam is trying to
move forward.
This was a really good, solid book. Penny stuck out more than Sam to
me; she has a lot going on, what with the drama of her roommate and
college, and attempting to grow away from her mother and yet also
thinking her mother needs her help in order to survive. The romance
was sweet, and both characters are sweet, though Penny is a bit more
dramatic. I appreciate where Penny and her mother's relationship
went; they have a few issues, but they ended up growing in a really
healthy way, I think.
This isn't one of my favorites, but it was a really good read, and I
would pick up her next one.
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