Seven Percent of Ro Devereux

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].