e-Audio, 09:40:38
Narrated by: Tyla Collier & Emily Shaw
Release Date: July 1, 225
Published by: Simon & Schuster Audio
Read from: June 28-30, 2025
Stand-alone
Source: Libro FM (I received a free e-ALC from the publisher and their app. This did nothing to influence my review.)
Content Warning: Homophobia, Cursing, Infidelity, Toxic Relationship, Emotional Abuse, Child Abuse, Sexual Content, Racism, Biphobia
For Readers Interested In: Audio, Contemporary Romance, Dual POV, Sparkly Covers, Most Anticipated, Realistic Fiction, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, Romance, 2sLGBTQ+She Gets the Girl meets Bottoms in this fun and flirty young adult sapphic rom-com about two teens who want revenge on the flaky popular girl they’re both crushing on.
Cynical but sensitive Beau Carl is on a mission. She needs to know if ultra-popular Maia Moon—the girl she’s been secretly hooking up with for months—really has feelings for her. But when she shows up at the last big party of the year before prom, she sees Maia about to kiss someone else.
Sweet, inexperienced Charm Montgomery is the “someone else.” And she’s ecstatic that she’s been reading Maia’s flirty behavior in their tutoring sessions correctly. But when the kiss is interrupted and Maia accepts an elaborate promposal from her douchey, popular boyfriend just a few days later, both Maia and Beau end up heartbroken.
There’s only one thing for them to do—get her back. And the only way to do that is for Beau to tutor Charm on how she can get their former crush to fall for her so hard that Maia will dump her ex…and then get dumped for once.
As their plan starts working, Beau and Charm grow closer too, in a way neither expected. But are either of them ready to let go of their scheme to take a chance on something a little sweeter—and scarier—than revenge?
*MY THOUGHTS*
I wasn’t lying when I said this was a bunch of mess lol And I loved it. These kids had A LOT going on and I was like biting my nails done to nubs the whole time. I just knew it was going to end badly. But it actually didn’t. It really ended the best way possible.
Tbh I was a little disappointed in how it ended because once they figured things out, it was over. I wanted to see the people who ended up together, together. We get the build up to the scene, the scene, them finally talking, and then its over. Why do y’all do this to us? We went through this whole book and then there’s nothing lol Ugh it was annoying, but it made me sense for an HFN as a YA book. But you could have given us an epilogue ijs
The romance itself was cute tho. I enjoyed watching them kid themselves and say they didn’t like the other one. And the way they were both fighting for their lives to keep up the lies they were telling themselves. I thought it was cute! The way they used what happened to help them was so special and I loved it.
I was a little iffy because it was a love triangle, but this is the first time I’ve read one that was all girls! There’s still a “Bad person” character and one that is so sweet. So basically, if you’re like me and you had the love triangle in the back of your mind, it isn’t something that you have to worry about. It really isn’t a triangle, since they’re basically planning to get back at her. It doesn’t turn into anything triangle like until the end actually.
The characters and their differences were also important. In Dual POVs they matter a lot. And in this one, the two of them together make like one Sour Patch Kid. One is quiet and stand offish and the other is abrasive. And both of them were still so very sweet. They were the true definition of opposites attract. I loved that they were still so different but still found their way to each other.
This book was a lot of fun. I know this review doesn’t say much, but I’m trying not to spoil anything. This was a really fun book that was made by the characters and the way they looked out for each other. (Even if they weren’t looking out for anyone else lol)
Overall, I give this
