You Have a Match

this would be a perfect book if not for-
• the unnecessary harry potter references
• the harmful aromantic rep. granted it is not explicitly said that connie is aro but it is heavily implied. and yeah...miss lord really did her dirty.

but oh well. i still liked it!

Corny and boring. Took me forever to get through

3.5⭐️ cute!!!!

2.25 ??????

It was an easy read, and I loved Leo. Unfortunately the rest (the disappointing lack of relationship building with her new sister and the unbelievable adoption storyline) failed to engage.

Very teenage like, in all senses: from the main characters to their approach to life and view of problems. Cute, even if forgettable.

I didn't enjoy this at all, I thought the writing was juvenile, the characters unlikable, and the plot ridiculous. The worst part about it was the adoption story, this review is basically how I feel about it.

I liked Tweet Cute but this was so much better. Emma Lord's writing has improved noticeably! 
This book started out just okay to me but then it slowly got better and better. This has enough family drama to rival the haunting of hill house 💀
I loooooooved the characters especially Finn and Connie (my aro queen ❤❤). Also, Savvy and Micky were so cute, I would kill for them 😭
This gave me the same feelings as Foolish Hearts and I am ALWAYS looking for that. (It's time we accept that authors named Emma are just superior!) By the end, I literally couldn't stop smiling. 
Abby's relationship with Poppy almost made me CRY which literally never happens... 
And Abby and Savvy (that rhymes!) are sister goals. Also, LEO. He is SO precious, my heart can't take it. Abby and Leo were childhood-friends-to-lovers excellence. They kind of also gave me star-crossed-lovers vibes. 
This book made me weirdly nostalgic like my heart is so full??? 
I loved how this wasn't just straight up a rom-com, it focused on so many other relationships too. Emma Lord should do more of that! 
This book just gave me a lot of hope. I related to Abby and her struggles SO much. I don't wanna sound cliché and say “it tackles so many important topics” but it really does. I think a lot of people (especially young people) will resonate with this. The premise is crazy but the execution is amazing.

I liked Tweet Cute but this was so much better. Emma Lord's writing has improved noticeably!??
This book started out just okay to me but then it slowly got better and better. This has enough family drama to rival the haunting of hill house ????
I loooooooved the characters especially Finn and Connie (my aro queen ??????). Also, Savvy and Micky were so cute, I would kill for them ????
This gave me the same feelings as Foolish Hearts and I am ALWAYS looking for that. (It's time we accept that authors named Emma are just superior!) By the end, I literally couldn't stop smiling.??
Abby's relationship with Poppy almost made me CRY which literally never happens...??
And Abby and Savvy (that rhymes!) are sister goals. Also, LEO. He is SO precious, my heart can't take it. Abby and Leo were childhood-friends-to-lovers excellence. They kind of also gave me star-crossed-lovers vibes.??
This book made me weirdly nostalgic like my heart is so full?????
I loved how this wasn't just straight up a rom-com, it focused on so many other relationships too. Emma Lord should do more of that!??
This book just gave me a lot of hope. I related to Abby and her struggles SO much. I don't wanna sound clich?? and say “it tackles so many important topics” but it really does. I think a lot of people (especially young people) will resonate with this. The premise is crazy but the execution is amazing.

If I hadn't enjoyed Lord's first book so much I wouldn't have found this so disappointing but here we are. From the opening scene, which could have been much cleaner and consequently engaging, to the epilogue, which was clichéd and predictable, I was bored. Next!

3.5 stars. As in her breakout debut YA novel, [b:Tweet Cute 45045129 Tweet Cute Emma Lord https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1558456354l/45045129.SY75.jpg 66924806], Emma Lord packs more than her fair share of plot into this book. Abby is an underachieving 16 year old who finds out through a home DNA test that she has an 18 year old sister. Through a series of coincidences that somewhat strain credulity, she ends up at a summer camp with both her sister “Savvy” (Savannah), and her best pal Leo, who she is secretly in love with. Abby's relationship with Savvy, an Instagram star who seems to have everything figured out, is the highlight of the book. Unlike “The Parent Trap,” the two girls know they are siblings from their first meeting, but they have to solve the mystery of how they ended up with different parents and with extremely disparate lifestyles. Savvy is a junior counselor to Abby's camper, which leads to some very Parent Trap-like hijinks when Abby rebels against her new sister's authority. So there are many different layers as they try to negotiate the boundaries and dynamics of being blood relatives and total strangers.The romance between Abby and Leo was my least favorite part of the story, unfortunately, because Lord proved in Tweet that she can craft a swoon-worthy love story. But the “I can't tell my BFF I love him because I'll lose his friendship” is one of my least favorite tropes, and the two spend most of the book laboring under the dreaded Big Misunderstanding that could have been solved if they had JUST TALKED TO EACH OTHER. Abby is also grieving the recent loss of her beloved grandfather and dealing with parental expectations for her life after high school. Throw in lots of secondary characters, including both Abby's and Savannah's parents, Savvy's girlfriend Jo and her BFF Mickey, and fellow camper Finn whose interest in Abby is difficult to define, and you've got yourself a lot to handle in 300 pages. Fortunately Lord is truly a talented writer with a distinctive voice, and she makes you laugh, cry and wince as Abby stumbles towards her new normal.I am way too old for this genre (by about 40 years), but Emma Lord may be one of the few YA authors whose work I continue to read (along with [a:Sarah Dessen 2987 Sarah Dessen https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1372181953p2/2987.jpg]) because her books contain universal truths that are relevant at any age.