Today's post is on The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo. It s 336 pages long and is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The cover is light blue changing to pink as it goes on with the main character Clara on it. The intended reader is someone who likes young adult romances. There is some mild foul language, no sex, and no violence in this novel. The story is told from first person of Clara. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the dust jacket- Sixteen-year-old Clara Shin doesn't take life too seriously, but when she pushes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra. Clara was supposed to go on vacation to Tulum to visit her social media-influencer mom; she as supposed to spend lazy days at the pool with buddies. Being stuck in a sweaty Korean Brazilian food truck all day, every day? Worse still, working alongside her nemesis, Rose Carver? Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined.
But as time goes on, it turns out that maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) who's crushing on Clara is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What is taking this summer seriously means that Clara has to leave her old self behind?
Review- Another cute story from Maureen Goo. Clara is a prankster but her friends are the ones behind the plot of this novel. As a joke she gets nominated for homecoming queen and wins, she pulls a classic prank. Of course things get out of hand and she gets stuck working off her fine with her dad. Clara does change over the course of the summer but at times I felt that it was being forced on to her, like when she is blamed for winning the prom queen thing, when she did just did what everyone else was doing. But that was my only small complaint with this novel. I really liked all the characters, the plot was good, and the honest look at how fast people can change was refreshing and fun. If you liked Goo's first novel then you should definitely read this one.
I give this novel a Five out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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