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Narrated by:
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Vikas Adam
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By:
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Mary H. K. Choi
A New York Times best seller!
“Smart and funny...warm and rewarding.” (Booklist, starred review)
“A compelling and quirky tale of love and negotiating early adulthood in New York City.” (School Library Journal)
From the New York Times best-selling author of Emergency Contact, which Rainbow Rowell called “smart and funny”, comes a “captivating” (The New York Times) romance about how social media influences relationships every day.
On paper, college dropout Pablo Rind doesn’t have a whole lot going for him. His graveyard shift at a 24-hour deli in Brooklyn is a struggle. Plus, he’s up to his eyeballs in credit card debt. Never mind the state of his student loans.
Pop juggernaut Leanna Smart has enough social media followers to populate whole continents. The brand is unstoppable. She graduated from child stardom to become an international icon, and her adult life is a queasy blur of private planes, step-and-repeats, aspirational hotel rooms, and strangers screaming for her just to notice them.
When Leanna and Pablo meet at 5:00 a.m. at the bodega in the dead of winter it’s absurd to think they’d be A Thing. But as they discover who they are, who they want to be, and how to defy the deafening expectations of everyone else, Lee and Pab turn to each other. Which, of course, is when things get properly complicated.
©2019 Mary H. K. Choi (P)2019 Simon & SchusterListeners also enjoyed...




















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This is a ya/na crossover like the author’s first book but I was more invested than the her first book. The heroine is a white presenting latinx woman so there was a lot of culture in the book.
I think where I lost connection was the attempt to appear witty but the MCs just came off as talkative.
The heroine is a celebrity—which was interesting. She couldn’t do a lot publicly which caused conflict in their friendship and eventual relationship. The hero was actually internet famous himself but never learned how to monetize it, so it didn’t last long.
They both had things that made sense and made them annoying(hero was unsure of his future but bad with money. The heroine had first world problems but could live like a regular person).
I enjoyed the book but felt it still unintentionally centered whiteness and striving toward it; brown men always love whiteness so I figured this might be different but it didn’t surprise me she was white passing.
Overall I enjoyed. Would I recommend? Only if you’re looking for this kind of story.
Good but hoped for something different
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Some of the character voices were irritating
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I was drawn in right away.
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Not for me
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I thought this was going to be like a romance hybrid but it was more coming of age. I am finding out I like this genre bcz I did a lot of dumb stuff growing up and I can relate.
The only gripe I have is that I could not listen to the story without adjusting the volume. Vikas is a good narrator. When he changes characters the pitch of his voice goes higher than when he reads the storyline. He reads kind of soft anyway It would hurt my ears. Idk if that is something the audio Dept. Should smooth out or if the narrator needs to keep a constant volume.
Other than that I think it was a good book, I would imagine it was challenging to write this kind of book from the opposite sex’s point of view but I would say the author pulled it off.
I liked it
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The narrator was good except when doing female voices. Those were pretty awful.
Disappointing story
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