ARC, 368 pages
Release Date: April 4, 2023
Published by: Poppy
Read from: March 22- April 5, 2023
Stand-alone
Source: Publisher (I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for a just and honest review. This did nothing to influence my review.)
TW: N/A
For Readers Interested In: Romance, YA, Proms, Realistic FictionAn overachiever must decide if risking her heart by working with her former crush turned enemy is worth the reward in this snappy rom-com, perfect for fans of Tweet Cute and Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry .
High school senior Autumn Reeves has been waitlisted at her dream school. Determined to move to the top of the list, she must find a way to stand out. When a promposal she planned for a friend has half the senior class asking for her help, a brilliant business idea that will look great on her application is Promposal Queen.
Autumn has no clue how to start a business, so she joins the Young Black Entrepreneurs group and finds herself face-to-face with Mekhi Winston, the boy whose unexpected freshman-year kiss—a kiss that meant everything to her and nothing to him—cost Autumn her best friend. He’s the only person with the experience to help her, but how can she possibly trust him?
With her dreams on the line, Autumn’s willing to risk it. After all, Mekhi could be a good business partner without being a guy she would ever let near her heart again.
But when working with Mekhi jeopardizes her only chance at rekindling a friendship with her ex-best-friend, and secrets long buried threaten to ruin Promposal Queen, another broken heart may be the least of her worries–her entire future is on the line.
*MY THOUGHTS*
Don’t you hate when you’ve been waiting for a book to come out and then you finally get it and it’s not as good as you expected it to be? Yeah, me too. And this was one of them. I even begged the publishers in an email. (Maybe more than once….) But this just didn’t do it for me.
Ok so the reason I didn’t really like this? The main character. For her to be so smart and an overachiever like she’s describing, it made little to no sense that she seemed to not know how to ask qquestions. Now I get it, this is a high school student, but I still think with all this going on, she shouldn’t have been too afraid to ask him about the cheating things and all the other things. It just seemed stupid. And again, with her being so smart, why didn’t she sus out what happened? I did. That whole plot point was terrible. What saved it for me was the MMC, Mekhi. He was the only one with some sense. I didn’t understand how he was into her when she could barely understand what she herself was doing. But he was sweet, smart, and respectable. I was mad at Autumn, but Mekhi was good people. I also think I’m mad at the fact that there was absolutely no character growth the entire time for Autumn. She remained judgmental and mean the whole time.
I think I’m most mad at this because it was listed as a rom com. There was nothing funny about it. In reality, it was just a romance. And like, Idk about y’all, but that annoys me. I’m so tired of being promised one thing and getting another. Normally this wouldn’t make me that mad, but I thought it was going to be upbeat and fun with all these intricate promposals. In reality there were like 3 shown and we don’t even really get to see them working together at it. It felt like a waste.
As for the plot, it just seemed like everything that was happening was on the back of the book in the synopsis. It just didn’t feel like enough surprises in this. Adding on to this, there was no plot twist or anything, so it just felt really linear. I don’t want to say boring, but it kind of was.
What I did like was the writing style and the actual promposals that she did depict in the books. I thought they were creative and cute, but I would have preferred if they worked on more and she let Mekhi help on more. Or if she listened to him at all. He was the thing that saved this book for me and he was treated so poorly.
This wasn’t what I was expecting, but it was ok. I’m super bummed about it because I had built it up in my head. I was expecting an actual rom com with a likeable protagonist, but instead I got a book where I didn’t like anyone but the MMC and I don’t even feel really invested in their romance. Sad Day.
Overall, I give this
