I was nervous going into this one because Better Than the Movies (book one) is one of my favorite YA books I've read as an adult, and I just knew that in order for there to be a second book, Wes and Liz would have to break up. There's another situation like this by another author where that happened and the second book was disappointing and painful, but I am so glad to say that this to me it was done so, so well! 
Wes and Liz do, in fact, break up and it's for a heartbreaking reason: Wes's family experiences tragedy and he leaves their freshman year of college to go home and help out, no longer able to imagine playing baseball. Two years later, Wes is back at UCLA to restart his freshman year, back on the baseball team, and planning to try like hell to get Liz back. But the Liz he encounters is not the same Libby who was in love with him and with love. She's a bit harder, doesn't date, and their mutual friends know her as the hilariously sarcastic and quippy ball buster. She has no interest in rekindling things, and even panics and has her roommate slash best friend slash coworker, Clark, pretend to be her boyfriend. Then she and Clark are assigned to cover the baseball team for fall ball season, since they both work for the school's sports media team and Liz is also doing an internship with a documentarian making a film about the school's sports. 
As the two are forced to spend time together, Liz learns more about what was going on back then when Wes broke her heart, and despite her best efforts they start getting closer again; him laying it all on the line and her fighting it every step of the way until something happens where she can't ignore her feelings anymore.
I really enjoyed this! Not in the same way as the first one, but I was still hooked and rooting for them. There's no spice in this book, which I didn't know going into it since they're 20 now and it could have been pushed into New Adult territory, but I'm glad it was alluded to but never on page because that worked better for their story and kept it closer to the same vibe as the first book. Like with the first one, my only real compliant is that I wish we got more time with them together at the end; but, also like with the first one, it makes it feel more like a movie that we don't and that fits so well thematically, so it didn't bother me much. Overall, a very good second installment of Wes & Liz.