Release Date: April 4, 2017Published by: Simon Pulse
Read from: April 11-April 20, 2017Stand-aloneSource: EdelweissFor fans of: Contemporary,Romance, Chick-lit, DEAR< Diversity, Hot Literary Guys, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA
The one guy Bailey Rydell can’t stand is actually the boy of her dreams—she just doesn’t know it yet.
Classic movie fan Bailey “Mink” Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online as Alex. Two coasts separate the teens until Bailey moves in with her dad, who lives in the same California surfing town as her online crush.
Faced with doubts (what if he’s a creep in real life—or worse?), Bailey doesn’t tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown. Or that she’s landed a job at the local tourist-trap museum. Or that she’s being heckled daily by the irritatingly hot museum security guard, Porter Roth—a.k.a. her new archnemesis. But life is whole lot messier than the movies, especially when Bailey discovers that tricky fine line between hate, love, and whatever it is she’s starting to feel for Porter.
And as the summer months go by, Bailey must choose whether to cling to a dreamy online fantasy in Alex or take a risk on an imperfect reality with Porter. The choice is both simpler and more complicated than she realizes, because Porter Roth is hiding a secret of his own: Porter is Alex…Approximately.
"If you don't pay attention to things, they wander off. I learned my lesson."23%
First I wanna talk about the setting. Y'all my mind's eye made Coranado Cove SO BEAUTIFUL. With me being from Galveston, Texas (yes I know it does not compare. SO. WHAT. LMAO) I could clearly put together the way it might look. I've never been to Califronia, but from this book I can imagine the salt smell in the air and the surfers out surfing early in the morning or when there is a storm coming. It really made me feel as if I was there."Maybe Walt Whitman was right. We all really do contradict oursevles and contain multitudes. How do we even figure out who we really are?"37%
"...he's giving you looks that say I'd like to surf your waves."49%
I really loved this book and I can't wait to see what else Jenn Bennett writes. At this point, I'd read just her margin notes or something. I'm sure they're just as entertaining."Lock some locks. Who says that? What a dork. He's broken my brain."49%
Labels: Chick-lit, Contemporary Romance, DEAR, Diversity, e-ARC, Hot Guys, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA