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Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway
3.0

This was a fun, entertaining book, but I just wasn't a huge fan. It is a romance book first and foremost, and I was honestly more interested in the kidnapping than Emmy and Oliver rekindling their eight year old romance. Emmy also spent a lot of the book complaining about how uptight her parents were, which was a bit much for me to handle as an adult. I think I'd have enjoyed this book a lot more if I'd read it as a teenager. But I think if you go in expecting and wanting a romance heavy book and are okay with a bit of extra immaturity, you'll enjoy this. There was a lot to like about it, especially the casual bucking of toxic social norms like the "not like other girls" trope (a boy said this to Emmy and she and her friends called him a douche canoe).

Overall fun, but not a whole lot more for me, although I can see why other people might enjoy it more.