Item: Love, Life, and the List
Rating: 3.00
Author: novelsandwaffles

by Kasie West

What do you do when you’ve fallen for your best friend? Funny and romantic, this effervescent story about family, friendship, and finding yourself is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han.

Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner’s summer isn’t going the way she’d planned. She has a not-so-secret but definitely unrequited crush on her best friend, Cooper. She hasn’t been able to manage her mother’s growing issues with anxiety. And now she’s been rejected from an art show because her work “has no heart.” So when she gets another opportunity to show her paintings, Abby isn’t going to take any chances.

Which is where the list comes in.

Abby gives herself one month to do ten things, ranging from face a fear (#3) to learn a stranger’s story (#5) to fall in love (#8). She knows that if she can complete the list, she’ll become the kind of artist she’s always dreamed of being.

But as the deadline approaches, Abby realizes that getting through the list isn’t as straightforward as it seems . . . and that maybe—just maybe—she can’t change her art if she isn’t first willing to change herself.

"We’re good for each other, I think. You bring me down to earth and I make you dream big."

Things I Liked:

✑ It's easy to get into → it doesn't make you think too much. (It's the perfect book to get you out of a reading slump.)
✑ Fluffy, fluffy, fluffy, fluffy...this book could cosplay as a puppy or a cloud for all the fluffiness that was included in it
✑ Friends-to-Lovers trope = 💛💛💛
✑ Agoraphobia Representation
✑ I could really relate to Abby's crushing self doubt
✑ The audiobook reader did a great job at capturing the voice of Abby and creating a mood that fit the writing style of the book

Things I Liked... Less:

✑ Pretty predictable, no real plot twists
✑ A bit cringey at times
✑ The last scene of the book was unnecessary and anticlimactic
✑ It was just...meh. Nothing too special, but nothing too horrible

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Love, Life, and the List

by Kasie West

Reviewed by Kat @ Novels & Waffles on May 5, 2019

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