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Best Vacation Ever

Cunsolo, Jessica

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St. Martin's Press

Annotation: Contains Mature Material

Genre: [Love stories] [Realistic fiction]

Reviews: 1

Catalog Number: #6779769

Format: Paperback

Special Formats: Adult Language

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Edition Date: 2023 Release Date: 06/20/23

Pages: 310 pages

ISBN: 1-9902599-6-0

ISBN 13: 978-1-9902599-6-8

Dewey: Fic

Dimensions: 21 cm

Subject Heading:
Teenage girls. Fiction.
Best friends. Fiction.
Vacations. Fiction.
Interpersonal relations. Fiction.
Secrecy. Fiction.

Language: English

Reviews:

Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

Seventeen-year-old best friends Lori and Faye couldn’t be more different: Lori actively avoids being the center of attention, while Faye revels in the way heads turn every time she enters a room. When Faye’s older brother Adam invites the girls on a trip to Cuba with his four friends—including Faye’s current hook-up, Kellan, and Lori’s secret gym crush, Dean—they’re excited to embark on what they feel will be the best vacation ever. But Faye and Lori’s carefree holiday is dominated by boy troubles. Lori is struggling to find the confidence to approach Dean. Faye, on the other hand, is desperate to keep her friends-with-benefits situation with Kellan secret from Adam, even as she wrestles with her desire to make her relationship with Kellan official. As their summer unfolds, the duo are forced to vacate their comfort zones and reevaluate their own friendship. Superficial characterizations and melodramatic conflict contribute to shallow-feeling interpersonal dynamics. Cunsolo (the With Me series) nevertheless skillfully renders—via expressive prose and evocative play-by-plays of pool party hijinks—fun-in-the-sun atmosphere that makes for a breezy seasonal read. Characters present as white. Ages 14–up. (June)

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Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)

Reading Level: 6.0

Interest Level: 9-12

Two best friends, five hot guys, one dream vacation. What could possibly go wrong?

Lori is beautiful, smart, and athletic. The one thing she cant do is speak up for herself: she cant stand up to a creepy guy at the gym, she cant speak to her crush, and she certainly cant tell her parents that she wants to take a year off to backpack around Europe rather than follow family tradition and go to med school. When her best friend, Faye, invites her on an all expenses paid, weeklong trip to a sunny destination with Fayes brother, Adam, and four of his friends, she jumps at the chance to leave all her problems behind.

Faye is Loris opposite in a lot of waysmaybe thats why theyre such good friends. In fact, the only problem in Fayes life is that her brother hates her, and shes hooking-up with his best friend, Kellan, behind his back. She cant let Adam find out. as thatll only make their relationship worse. At the same time, she doesnt want a hook-up; she wants a real relationship with Kellan. This vacation is her chance to figure out if hes in this for real or not.

When Faye hatches a scheme designed to make Kellan jealous, she drags everyone else into her dramaincluding Lori and her gym crush, who just happens to be on this trip too! Soon everyone is fighting with everyone else and relationships are being ripped apart as secrets are revealed. Going on the Best Vacation Ever may turn out to be the Worst Decision Ever.

This delightful, stand-alone novel from YA superstar Jessica Cunsolo deals with romance and friendship, but its also about learning to stand-up for yourself and be who you want to be.

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