What Light

I know this is a book about Christmas, and it's currently May, but I wanted some holiday happiness in my life and I absolutely loved it.

A very vanilla YA love story. Sierra is looking for a winter vacation fling and Caleb is looking for redemption from something in his past. Queue the insta-love.

I feel like What Light is written more middle grade than YA, but it's not? I don't know, this one was weird. It's very vanilla and a very easy read. But I didn't NOT enjoy it. I mean, this book is fine, there's nothing I hated. I'm sure some people didn't enjoy the good old insta-love trope, but I'm not one to knock it because I met my husband and knew I was gonna marry him like a week later. But just because I didn't hate anything, doesn't mean it's necessarily a good book. The writing was fine, the story was fine, the characters were fine. I don't have a whole lot else to say. The setting was beautiful and Taylor Swift-esque. But otherwise, I'm shrugging here. It's a story we've all read before.

Would I recommend? For a young teenager, maybe 13, yes. For an older teenager or adult? Not unless you just need a quick, easy read for your Goodreads Challenge.

3.5/5 stars