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Love? Maybe
by Heather Hepler
I don't usually go for super fluffy contemporaries, but I was craving something happy after my last book made me sad, so I picked this up. It's been on my shelf for years, and if I'm being perfectly honest, I thought it was middle grade. It looks like a middle grade type cover and the story sounded a little young, so I just assumed (wrongly). I'm a little more down for very cutesy books when the characters are younger and I probably wouldn't have picked this up had I realized they were all like 16ish.
Which is to say, this isn't my type of book so I can hardly review it well. It was fine, I guess, if you like that kind of thing. It read like an mid 2000s YA, but was published in 2012. It's first person present tense, which I don't frequently love.
By the end, I will admit I was a bit invested in the relationship. It's real obvious where it's going, but it doesn't matter when it works. It was just really sweet and happymaking, which is why I picked it up.
One thing that bugged me were the characters' jobs. For whatever reason, every adult in this book is either a small business owner or an artist. Piper talks about her single mother being a little tight on money, but somehow she affords to send three kids to an exclusive private school. Piper herself works as a bookkeeper for a candy shop, despite being only 16, which stretched the realm of believability for me. All of her friends also "work" for the candy shop, but I'm pretty sure no one got paid except maybe Piper. Although to be honest, I'm not entirely sure Piper got paid either. I just assumed she did, but she never talked about specific hours or getting a paycheck. She just kind of went over whenever she felt like it. And the owner of the candy shop wasn't a family friend because she talked about how her mother had barely met him, so I'm not entirely sure why they were all working there. It was confusing.
But if you like very fluffy, happy YA, you'd probably like this fine. It wasn't amazing, but apart from my nitpicking over everyone's jobs, there wasn't anything really wrong with it either.
Which is to say, this isn't my type of book so I can hardly review it well. It was fine, I guess, if you like that kind of thing. It read like an mid 2000s YA, but was published in 2012. It's first person present tense, which I don't frequently love.
By the end, I will admit I was a bit invested in the relationship. It's real obvious where it's going, but it doesn't matter when it works. It was just really sweet and happymaking, which is why I picked it up.
One thing that bugged me were the characters' jobs. For whatever reason, every adult in this book is either a small business owner or an artist. Piper talks about her single mother being a little tight on money, but somehow she affords to send three kids to an exclusive private school. Piper herself works as a bookkeeper for a candy shop, despite being only 16, which stretched the realm of believability for me. All of her friends also "work" for the candy shop, but I'm pretty sure no one got paid except maybe Piper. Although to be honest, I'm not entirely sure Piper got paid either. I just assumed she did, but she never talked about specific hours or getting a paycheck. She just kind of went over whenever she felt like it. And the owner of the candy shop wasn't a family friend because she talked about how her mother had barely met him, so I'm not entirely sure why they were all working there. It was confusing.
But if you like very fluffy, happy YA, you'd probably like this fine. It wasn't amazing, but apart from my nitpicking over everyone's jobs, there wasn't anything really wrong with it either.