This was a rather frivolous, silly book I read a few weeks back. I've been reading too many long books recently, meaning I haven't been finishing stuff quickly enough to review on a weekly basis! I must read faster...
Keslie hates Eric and has done since they were at grade school. They have always been rivals, especially now they are at a super-competitive high school. At the start of their senior year, Eric and Kelsie run into each other at a party and in a moment of weakness, Eric admits his girlfriend has ghosted him since leaving for college. Kelsie admits her bestie, Brianna, has not spoken to her either, since leaving to move in with her mother across the country.
When Keslie discovers Brianna is planning a co0llege visit to the same college Eric's girlfriend is attending, she is willing to do just about anything to try and talk to her friend - even put up with Eric.
Without much of a plan, Eric and Kelsie head off, certain things will work in their favour, despite not really knowing where their people might be at any given time. And they talk, uncovering things they each didn't about each other and their shared past.
By the end of the trip, they will either have killed one another or buried the hatchet forever.
This was a quick and easy read. I found both Eric and Kelsie quite annoying and spending that much time with them grated on me a bit. They did grow throughout the trip, and Kelsie was somewhat less obnoxious by the end, but not quite enough to make up for what came before. And Eric, for someone supposedly so smart, was ridiculously shallow.
But if you like an enemies-to-lovers romance, this is not the worst I've read.
Don't just listen to me though. Here's the blurb:
Today Tonight Tomorrow meets A Pho Love Story in this whip-smart young adult novel about a girl who embarks on a “breezy road trip romp” ( Publishers Weekly ) with her longtime rival to win back her best friend and his girlfriend.
There’s no one Kelsie Miller hates more than Eric Mulvaney Ortiz—the homecoming king, captain of the football team, and academic archrival in her hyper-competitive prep school. But after Kelsie’s best friend, Brianna, moves across the country and stops speaking to her, she’ll do anything, even talk to Eric, to find out why.
After they run into each other—literally—at the last high school party of the summer, Eric admits he’s been ghosted by his girlfriend, Jessica. Kelsie tells him she’s had zero contact from Briana since she left their upstate New York town.
Suddenly, a plan is they’ll go on a road trip to the University of Pennsylvania the following week when both Brianna and Jessica will be on campus. Together, they’ll do whatever it takes to win back their exes.
What could go wrong?
Used to succeeding in everything, Kelsie and Eric assume they’ll naturally figure out the details on the drive down. What they don’t expect is that the person they actually need may be the one sitting next to them.
There’s no one Kelsie Miller hates more than Eric Mulvaney Ortiz—the homecoming king, captain of the football team, and academic archrival in her hyper-competitive prep school. But after Kelsie’s best friend, Brianna, moves across the country and stops speaking to her, she’ll do anything, even talk to Eric, to find out why.
After they run into each other—literally—at the last high school party of the summer, Eric admits he’s been ghosted by his girlfriend, Jessica. Kelsie tells him she’s had zero contact from Briana since she left their upstate New York town.
Suddenly, a plan is they’ll go on a road trip to the University of Pennsylvania the following week when both Brianna and Jessica will be on campus. Together, they’ll do whatever it takes to win back their exes.
What could go wrong?
Used to succeeding in everything, Kelsie and Eric assume they’ll naturally figure out the details on the drive down. What they don’t expect is that the person they actually need may be the one sitting next to them.
What's with the title? It doesn't seem like everyone hates her.
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