Georgie, All Along is really cheesy, but in an endearing way. I really liked Georgie and Levi as characters and as a couple. In fact, I loved almost all the characters in this book, which is rare for me. Can Paul and Shyla adopt me for real? And I think the romance was done convincingly, like at no point did I think these characters were moving too quickly or that they were acting unnaturally. It was really sweet, too. 

My favorite part of the book was how much not-drama was a part of it. Of course, the characters had fights, but it never had to do with the dreaded "miscommunication" trope that I loathe. It was all internal conflict that they needed to resolve, and thankfully did get resolved in meaningful ways.

For example, I was pleasantly surprised when Georgie told Levi about meeting his siblings and getting a job offer from his father pretty much right after it happened, since I predicted that to be a big secret she would keep that would lead to a bombastic, blowout third act conflict, but instead it wasn't, and that made the book all the more enjoyable to me.

In general, I enjoyed that the conflicts in the book felt like real things that could happen and like not a Hallmark movie. 

While I did enjoy this book and will be giving it 4 well-deserved stars, I don't think I can give this book five stars because I did find the whole

Levi finding out about Georgie's former crush on Evan

thing to be a bit contrived.

I also can't explain this in a way that would make sense to most people, but the friend fic thing creeped me out in a weird way. Like it's definitely something that I can see eighth graders creating together, but the way Georgie latched onto it, at her age, was bizarre to me.

Overall though, this was a really fun, delightful romance that helped me get out of a reading slump, and I'll always love it for that.