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You Have a Match by Emma Lord
4.0

I loved Tweet Cute and I was really hoping to love this sophomore book from Emma Lord just as much. Unfortunately, while it wasn't bad, it also wasn't my favorite. This read more like a YA Fiction than a YA Romcom, so perhaps that's just an error in what I expected because of Tweet Cute vs what was actually intended. But when I'm expect one thing and get something else, it really has to have a wow factor to overcome the disappointment.

That said, I still gave You Have a Match 3.5 stars (rounding to 4 on whole number sites). It's a nice story and the main characters are well developed. I really enjoyed the relationship between the sisters and felt it was a mostly natural progression. But the romantic interests for both main characters definitely felt like supporting characters and I would have liked to see more from them.

There were funny moments, which helped bring levity to a more serious topic, but the seriousness around the adults secrets was downplayed so much that it just felt... off. As an adult reader, this bothered me and caused the book to feel even more YA than it probably would have otherwise. But to a younger reader, this would likely not be an issue and does keep the book from crossing over in the to "too serious" territory.

Lastly, the pacing for this one felt a bit confusing. We are at camp for days already and then suddenly they've been doing weeks of punishment. And then days (?) later we still have weeks of punishment to go, during a 4 week camp? If this sounds confusing, well, it's because I'm still not sure of the timing of events. This really stuck out to me, but again, may not be an issue for most readers.