Love, Decoded
by Jennifer Yen
Razorbill, 2022. 303 pages. Young Adult Fiction
High school junior Gigi Wong is determined to be picked for
a contest that could lead to an exclusive tech internship, but when her
matchmaking app goes viral Gigi must deal with the unexpected consequences of
helping her friends find love.
This is a follow-up to Yen’s A Taste for Love in which she loosely based the plot on Pride and Prejudice. In this
installment, Yen uses Emma as her
jumping off point for the matchmaking storyline. It was fun seeing characters
from the other book, and Gigi is a fun and charismatic protagonist to get to
know. The banter-filled romantic comedy was a delight to read.
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Wednesday Books, 2020. 361 pages. Young Adult Fiction
Meet Pepper, swim team captain and chronic overachiever. Her
family may be falling apart, but their massive fast-food chain is booming -
mainly thanks to Pepper, who is secretly running Big League Burger's massive
Twitter account. Enter Jack, class clown and constant thorn in Pepper's side.
When he isn't trying to duck out of his obscenely popular twin's shadow, he's
busy working in his family's deli. He might not like the business that holds
his future, but when Big League Burger steals his grandma's iconic grilled
cheese recipe, he'll do whatever it takes to take them down, one tweet at a
time. All's fair in love and cheese - that is, until Pepper and Jack's spat
turns into a viral Twitter war. Little do they know, while they're publicly
duking it, they're also falling for each other in real life - on an anonymous
chat app Jack built. As their relationship deepens and their online shenanigans
escalate, even these two rivals can't ignore they were destined for the most
unexpected and awkward romance that neither of them expected.
by David Yoon
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2020. 349 pages. Young Adult Fiction
When Sunny Dae--self-proclaimed total nerd--meets Cirrus
Soh, he can't believe how cool and confident she is. So when Cirrus mistakes
Sunny's older brother Gray's bedroom--with its electric guitars and rock
posters--for Sunny's own, he sort of, kind of, accidentally winds up telling
her he's the front man of a rock band. Before he knows it, Sunny is knee-deep
in the lie: He ropes his best friends into his scheme, begging them to form a
fake band with him, and starts wearing Gray's rock-and-roll castoffs. But no
way can he trick this amazing girl into thinking he's cool, right? Just when
Sunny is about to come clean, Cirrus asks to see them play sometime. Gulp. Now
there's only one thing to do: Fake it till you make it.
by Tirzah Price
HarperTeen, 2020. 360 pages. Young Adult Fiction
Seventeen-year-old aspiring lawyer Lizzie Bennet seeks to
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