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My Review:Title: Stuck With You
Author: Christina Mandelski
Series: The First Kiss Hypothesis #3
Published by: Entangled: Crush
Release Date: September 2, 2019
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 250
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2022 Backlist Reader Challenge, Lenoreo's 2022 COYER Spring, Lenoreo's 2022 Finishing the Series Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:When Caleb Gray heads to the Texas coast to mentally prepare for a future he isn’t sure he wants, the last person he expects to see is Catie Dixon. Yeah, their mothers have been planning their wedding since they were born, but he and Catie are most definitely not friends. He can’t see her as anything but the annoying kid who followed him everywhere. Except, it’s really bothering him that everyone is staring at her in that bikini…
Catie got over her crush on Caleb ages ago. So why can’t she see past his ripped body or how unsettled he seems? She’s got her own problems, though. Her future has been set for years and now she’s dreaming of pulling the plug. A week at their families’ beach house is just what she needs to pull herself together, and she has no intention of letting Caleb back into her heart...which would be a whole lot easier if he’d put on a shirt.
But a forced week of togetherness full of beach parties, waterslide mishaps, bonfires, and roller coasters sparks more than an understanding. What do you do when the person standing in the way of your future is the one person you grew up hating...but now don’t?
Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book contains summer thunderstorms on the beach, an, er...awkward waterslide incident, and an infuriatingly hot boy who you'll no longer be able to ignore.
3.5 stars — Welp, this probably wasn’t the best time to read this one because I had a bunch of life going on…but I don’t think I would have been as excited about it either way. It just wasn’t what I remembered from the first two books. And the funny thing is, I was really looking forward to Caleb’s story. But there was such…tension between Caleb and Catie, that we kind of saw Caleb not at his best, you know?
I think part of my meh-ness is that it didn’t feel like a lot happened. Or, like we got told a lot of things, but I didn’t feel the connection between Cay-Cay like I wanted to. I appreciated that through these two we got to see how hard it can be for kids who feel torn between their parents’ dreams for them and their own dreams. I thought that was an interesting topic to tackle, and was probably the strongest part of the story.
Both Catie and Caleb had moments of behaving a little…brattily? Does that make sense? I didn’t necessarily really like either of them. I didn’t dislike them, I guess I was just pretty indifferent. It could be partly my mood, but it wasn’t just my mood I don’t think.
I enjoyed when they reminisced about being friends as kids, and their date was cute, but otherwise the romance felt very focused on the lust angle…which, well, teenagers and hormones I guess.
I don’t know. I’m tired. I just didn’t connect like I did the other books, so I’m feeling unreasonably bummed.
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