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Fans of Emma Lord, Rachel Lynn Solomon, and Alex Light will love this clever, charming, and poignant debut novel with a masterful slow-burn romance at its core about a girl who must decide whether to pursue her dreams or preserve her relationships, including a budding romance with her ex-best friend, when an app she created goes viral. Ro Devereux can predict your future. Or, at least, the app she built for her senior project can. Working with her neighbor, a retired behavioral scientist, Ro created an app called MASH, designed around the classic game Mansion Apartment Shack House, that can predict a person’s future with 93% accuracy. The app will even match users with their soulmates. Though it was only supposed to be a class project, MASH quickly takes off and gains the attention of tech investors. Ro’s dream is to work in Silicon Valley, and she’ll do anything to prove to her new backing company—and the world—that the app works. So it’s a huge shock when the app says her soulmate is Miller, her childhood best friend with whom she had a friendship-destroying fight three years ago. Now thrust into a fake dating scenario, Ro and Miller must address the years of pain between them if either of them will have any chance of achieving their dreams. And as the app takes on a life of its own, Ro sees that it’s affecting people in ways she never expected—and if she can’t regain control, it might take her and everything she believes in down with it.
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High school senior Rose has developed MASH, an app that predicts the user's future profession, number of children they'll have, where they will live and who they will marry with 93% accuracy. Surprisingly, a major investor wants in, provided that Ro publicize the app's success rate by dating the person that MASH identifies as her fated partner. Unfortunately, that turns out to be Alastair Miller, Ro's childhood best friend who has not spoken to her since a disastrous interaction at a party four years ago. The plot is very light on the science of the app (good coding plus research done with a “human behavior expert” neighbor), focusing instead on the crash course in public relations that Ro and a reluctant but incentivized Miller are forced into, and the impact of MASH's success on Ro's relationships with family and friends. The irony of a computer program that predicts the future coming from a teen with unlimited possibilities ahead of her doesn't go unnoticed. Things get pretty heavy, when a significant loss makes Ro revisit her priorities, but the climactic scene featuring a cameo from Hoda Kotb, guarantees a HEA. This is a strong YA debut novel that will appeal to fans of [a:Emma Lord 18673646 Emma Lord https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1544038365p2/18673646.jpg].