📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 Where It All Lands
AUTHOR: Jennie Wexler @jenniewexler
Publisher: Wednesday Books @wednesdaybooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: July 6, 2021
The Review 📚
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- This story sounded like a cute dual reality book with a new twist. Thanks to @Netgalley and Wednesday books for the opportunity to read this.
💜 What I liked:
- The way the story is told in this dual perspective was really clever, even if it has been done before. There was also a clear winner for me in terms of who was worthy for Stevie.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- The ending was wide open to interpretation which is not totally a bad thing. But I actually thought of a genius way to end things that I thought was heading towards and it didn’t.
💁♀️ The Characters:
- Stevie is new to town and meets Nick and Shane, who flip a coin to see who can ask her out in order to preserve their friendship.
🚦 My face at the end: 🧐
💭 5 Reasons to Read:
- If you like Sliding Doors or Maybe in Another Life, read this!
- If you love YA Romance with unique perspectives, this has some.
- Are you a fan of music and marching band references?
- Are you a fan of sports references?
- There are some pretty heavily flawed YA characters here.
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- A dual perspective telling about a love triangle that starts with a coin toss.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
📘 Summary 📚 Where It All Lands
Stevie Rosenstein has never made a true friend. Never fallen in love. Moved from city to city by her father’s unrelenting job, it’s too hard to care for someone. Trust in anything. The pain of leaving always hurts too much. But she’ll soon learn to trust, to love.
Twice.
Drew and Shane have been best friends through everything. The painful death of Shane’s dad. The bitter separation of Drew’s parents. Through sleepaway camps and family heartache, basketball games and immeasurable loss, they’ve always been there for each other.
When Stevie meets Drew and Shane, life should go on as normal.
But a simple coin toss alters the course of their year in profound and unexpected ways.
Told in dual timelines, debut author Jennie Wexler delivers a heartbreaking and hopeful novel about missed opportunities, second chances, and all the paths that lead us to where we are.