baronessekat | 2023 PopSugar Challenge: a book about a vacation

Never Vacation with Your Ex by Emily Wibberley

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

2.5 stars, but I rounded up.

During the majority of the year 17 year old Kaylee lives her life in the spotlight of being a competitive beach volleyball player like her famous mother. Her entire existence is watched - in the sports media, social media and so on.

For three weeks a year her family vacations with another family that consists of her mother's life long best friend. This family consists of Kaylee's best friend Dean. But things get tense when Kaylee and Dean start dating and Kaylee breaks things off just before the annual joint vacation.

Forced to face each other every day for two weeks Kaylee comes up with a project to help Dean get over her, while she deals with having (in her mind) to be the perfect... perfect daughter, perfect high school volleyball player, perfect social media influencer, perfect best friend, perfect ex-girlfriend.

As the days go by, this vacation is shaping up to be the hardest one ever.

+++++

To be honest, I didn't read the summary before borrowing the book from the library. I went by title and cover and my recent love of "cozy romance". I totally missed that this was a YA contemporary romance. Not my thing.

I found Kaylee annoying, her mother self-centered and just the story... eh.

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