Release Date: March 3, 2020Published by: Wednesday Books
Read from: March 25- April 1, 2020Stand-aloneSource: Netgalley (I received a copy of this book from Netgalley and the Publisher in exchange for a just and honest review. This did nothing to influence my review.)TW: Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Biphobia, FatphobiaFor fans of: Contemporary, Romance, LGBTQIAP+, LOL Funny, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA
SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA meets CLUELESS in this boy-meets-boy spin on Grease
Summer love...gone so fast.
Will Tavares is the dream summer fling―he's fun, affectionate, kind―but just when Ollie thinks he's found his Happily Ever After, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairy tale ending, and to complicate the fairy tale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country. Which he minds a little less when he realizes it's the same school Will goes to...except Ollie finds that the sweet, comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn't the same one attending Collinswood High. This Will is a class clown, closeted―and, to be honest, a bit of a jerk.
Ollie has no intention of pining after a guy who clearly isn't ready for a relationship, especially since this new, bro-y jock version of Will seems to go from hot to cold every other week. But then Will starts "coincidentally" popping up in every area of Ollie's life, from music class to the lunch table, and Ollie finds his resolve weakening.
The last time he gave Will his heart, Will handed it back to him trampled and battered. Ollie would have to be an idiot to trust him with it again.
Right? Right.
"Sometimes we have to make sacrifices for the people we love, right? "2%
"With any luck, it wouldn't take too long for him to feel like a scar instead of an open wound."18%
"Sometimes we only get to be friends for a little while. That's the why you've always gotta make it count, right?"21%
"Although to be fair, he'd made it pretty clear that acting like I knew him at all would doom him forever. Because he might catch the gay, after all."29%
"Who was the real Will? He had so many masks I had no idea what his damn face looked like anymore."31%
"Ugh. Straight guys."71%
Labels: Contemporary, Contemporary Romance, GLBT, POC, Realistic Fiction, Stand-alones, YA