Full review at Wild and Wonderful Reads

Four Days of You and Me just missed the mark for me.

I have a lot of love for Miranda Kenneally — her Hundred Oaks series is a fantastic YA Contemporary series! This book, though, lacked the same easy feeling that I experienced with her prior work. The nonlinear timeline and timehops often make it difficult to follow. There are also several times where I feel elements were added for the sake of having “X, Y or Z” versus actually being necessary to the plot.

I think the concept for Four Days is fun! It’s cool to revisit the class each year for their field trip and see how each character has grown and which relationships have changed. I also liked to see what events led to each character’s development, but, again, I think the execution fell short.

When you’re a character-driven reader and you don’t like a main character, it makes it difficult to connect or truly invest in a story. I don’t want to harp on every little thing that bugged me about Lulu, so I’m simply going to say that she annoyed me. Alex has a much better character arc but it stretches a bit too far by the end. I loved the secondary characters, though! I was there for Ryan, Grace, Max, and Caleb!

Overall, I wanted to love Four Days of You and Me but just didn’t. If you’re a fan of Miranda’s, you might still want to pick this one up! I just feel that the confusion caused by the timeline of the story may cause similar issues in a lot of readers so I’m hesitant to recommend it widely.

*Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy of this book. Please note that it, in no way, had an effect on my opinion or review.