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Eight Nights of Flirting
by Hannah Reynolds
Quick Stats
Age Rating: 13+
Over All: 5 stars
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Special thanks to Penguin Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.
I absolutely adored this book. I am, at my core, a lover of holiday romances, and I especially love to see ones that center holidays other than Christmas. I adored Hannah Reynolds’ debut, so I had high hopes for this one, and they were met!
Eight Nights of Flirting is a Hanukkah romcom with flirting lessons and childhood crush-to-lovers aspects. It takes place in the same Nantucket mansion as The Summer of Lost Letters, but this book focuses on Noah’s cousin. I loved seeing the characters I got to know in TSOLL, but this book can easily be read as a standalone.
The banter and chemistry between Shira and Tyler was unmatched, and every single thing about this book was just so much fun. Shira’s main goal for Hanukkah is to get a boyfriend, and I tend to find books that follow that plotkine to be shallow and immature, but Shira had so much else to her than that single desire. She wanted a boyfriend, but she was a fully-formed person outside of that as well, so it came off as realistic and honest instead of cliche and shallow.
At first I wasn’t sure how to feel about Tyler. I’m not usually a fan of characters who fall into the “playboy” stereotype. However he never felt sleazy or shallow to me, and he really did grow on me, especially as we began to see beneath the facade he puts on.
One of my favorite aspect’s of Hannah Reynolds’s books is how she seamlessly blends a historical aspect into her work. In her debut, Abby was trying to solve the mystery of her grandmother’s childhood. In Eight Nights of Flirting, Shira and Tyler are looking further back into history to learn about the origin of a mysterious box of belongings they found hidden in the mansion’s attic. I love learning about the history of Nantucket as the characters do, and I love the extra intrigue the mystery brings to the story.
This book had me hooked from the beginning, and I think it’s going to be one I reread next holiday season as well.
Age Rating: 13+
Over All: 5 stars
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Setting: 5/5
Writing: 5/5
Special thanks to Penguin Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.
I absolutely adored this book. I am, at my core, a lover of holiday romances, and I especially love to see ones that center holidays other than Christmas. I adored Hannah Reynolds’ debut, so I had high hopes for this one, and they were met!
Eight Nights of Flirting is a Hanukkah romcom with flirting lessons and childhood crush-to-lovers aspects. It takes place in the same Nantucket mansion as The Summer of Lost Letters, but this book focuses on Noah’s cousin. I loved seeing the characters I got to know in TSOLL, but this book can easily be read as a standalone.
The banter and chemistry between Shira and Tyler was unmatched, and every single thing about this book was just so much fun. Shira’s main goal for Hanukkah is to get a boyfriend, and I tend to find books that follow that plotkine to be shallow and immature, but Shira had so much else to her than that single desire. She wanted a boyfriend, but she was a fully-formed person outside of that as well, so it came off as realistic and honest instead of cliche and shallow.
At first I wasn’t sure how to feel about Tyler. I’m not usually a fan of characters who fall into the “playboy” stereotype. However he never felt sleazy or shallow to me, and he really did grow on me, especially as we began to see beneath the facade he puts on.
One of my favorite aspect’s of Hannah Reynolds’s books is how she seamlessly blends a historical aspect into her work. In her debut, Abby was trying to solve the mystery of her grandmother’s childhood. In Eight Nights of Flirting, Shira and Tyler are looking further back into history to learn about the origin of a mysterious box of belongings they found hidden in the mansion’s attic. I love learning about the history of Nantucket as the characters do, and I love the extra intrigue the mystery brings to the story.
This book had me hooked from the beginning, and I think it’s going to be one I reread next holiday season as well.