The Key to You and Me
Ratings3
Average rating2.2
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Ratings3
Average rating2.2
A sweet and funny LGBTQ+ romance perfect for fans of Becky Albertalli and Julie Murphy, from the critically acclaimed author of Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit! Piper Kitts is spending the summer living with her grandmother, training at the barn of a former Olympic horseback rider, and trying to get over her ex-girlfriend. Much to Piper's dismay, her grandmother is making her face her fear of driving by taking lessons from a girl in town. Kat Pearson has always suspected that she likes girls but fears her North Carolina town is too small to color outside the lines. But when Piper's grandmother hires Kat to give her driving lessons, everything changes. Piper's not sure if she's ready to let go of her ex. Kat's navigating uncharted territory with her new crush. With the summer running out, will they be able to unlock a future together? "Piper and Kat are imperfect, but always trying their best--aren't we all?--and Brown had me rooting for them all the way through this sweet, slow burn romance. Their triumphs, their blunders, and the way they swing between confidence and self-doubt are utterly relatable."--Misa Sigura, award-winning author of It's Not Like It's a Secret
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unfortunately this is like a 1.5 for me. admittedly, i'm not a huge fan of stories where kids are MCs and i mostly like fantasy and shit, so this book was absolutely not aimed at me. if you generally enjoy high schooler stories, horse girls, teenage sapphics, etc, then you may well like this!!
if you don't really like this sort of story, here's what really turned me off of it lol. the story itself may have been fine but there were some really weird mistakes and tone issues that just killed the whole book for me (like, someone is wearing a “bi-proud” flag instead of “bi-pride” flag or the one sentence fragment a few chapters in that made no sense stylistically so it must have been an editing error??). there were enough of these little weirds that i just couldn't deal. skimmed the last half
I didn't love Cat's narrator. Too chirpy even in parts of the book that didn't need it. I also didn't love the whole ‘brain voice' thing, but that's probably because of all the memes about 50 Shades with that to be honest.
