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Love, Life, and the List
by Kasie West
(*my overall rating is a 3.4)
love, life, and the list is about Abby who is struggling with her art while still being in love with her best friend, Cooper. she curates a list to give her more heart and depth for the summer.
by FAR the best kasie west book i’ve read. it’s a bit different from the ones i’ve read. first off, the main girl doesn’t hate the love interest (what a shock!). she does still have a some-what broken family. her mother has some kind of sickness, and her dad is in the military, but it felt a bit different from the other books.
i really like Cooper and Abby’s dynamic. i felt like they did click together well, and they had a lot in common. their relationship felt real and true, not forced, like some other books. it was a very well-developed romance.
i also liked how the list played into the story. it was a pretty cool list, and i’m sure that if you actually did it in real life it would be really fun, but i was a bit disappointed when the list disappeared in the middle of the story. it kinda just...faded away.
the side characters were also very fleshed out and very real. Elliot was a genuinely great person and even though he didn’t get with Abby, even though he clearly wanted to, he was still a grey friend to her. Lacey was also an amazing friend, but i feel like she was only there for the sake of the romance. i feel like Lacey could’ve been someone really cool and awesome if she had just been her own person, but that chance was wasted.
the whole art show thing? i feel like Abby may have over exaggerated a TINY bit. yes, i would be angry that my family couldn’t make it and that my dad influenced me getting into an art show, but i feel like she overreacted those two things.
now the one thing i would be EXTREMELY mad about would be my bestie/crush blew me off for a date with some girl he called Ris.
i thought that the ending was cute. i feel like Rachel and Justin could’ve been really cool characters had we known more about them, but getting to see them at the end was still really fun.
all in all a cute story that i would definitely recommend!
-rebe
love, life, and the list is about Abby who is struggling with her art while still being in love with her best friend, Cooper. she curates a list to give her more heart and depth for the summer.
by FAR the best kasie west book i’ve read. it’s a bit different from the ones i’ve read. first off, the main girl doesn’t hate the love interest (what a shock!). she does still have a some-what broken family. her mother has some kind of sickness, and her dad is in the military, but it felt a bit different from the other books.
i really like Cooper and Abby’s dynamic. i felt like they did click together well, and they had a lot in common. their relationship felt real and true, not forced, like some other books. it was a very well-developed romance.
i also liked how the list played into the story. it was a pretty cool list, and i’m sure that if you actually did it in real life it would be really fun, but i was a bit disappointed when the list disappeared in the middle of the story. it kinda just...faded away.
the side characters were also very fleshed out and very real. Elliot was a genuinely great person and even though he didn’t get with Abby, even though he clearly wanted to, he was still a grey friend to her. Lacey was also an amazing friend, but i feel like she was only there for the sake of the romance. i feel like Lacey could’ve been someone really cool and awesome if she had just been her own person, but that chance was wasted.
the whole art show thing? i feel like Abby may have over exaggerated a TINY bit. yes, i would be angry that my family couldn’t make it and that my dad influenced me getting into an art show, but i feel like she overreacted those two things.
now the one thing i would be EXTREMELY mad about would be my bestie/crush blew me off for a date with some girl he called Ris.
i thought that the ending was cute. i feel like Rachel and Justin could’ve been really cool characters had we known more about them, but getting to see them at the end was still really fun.
all in all a cute story that i would definitely recommend!
-rebe