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Better Off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg
3.0

When Levi's family leaves California and moves to Wisconsin before he starts the 7th grade, he immediately hits it off fellow classmate Macallen, bonding over their obsession with an obscure Irish comedy show. They soon are best friends, but can a boy and a girl really be just best friends, especially when everyone always assumes they are together?

Very sweet, but very by the book romance. I had fun alternating between Levi and Macallen's POVs and giggling over the Wisconsin references, but there was really nothing in this book that made me doubt the ending (the flash-forward sections where Levi and Macallen banter about their path to love pretty much give it away from the start) but it was fun ride. This book also did nothing to challenge the assertion that boys and girls can actually be just friends. Actually, it really just proved that blanket statement right. Oh well, still cute.