I really appreciated that Lahey was open about herself being fat. The issues I had wasn’t big enough to cause me to DNF. Now, in now means am I saying this is a horrible book or the author is bad. Now, I can see the different perspectives that the author was trying to come across, it just felt icky. It was if the book was just screaming the stereotypes of fat people don’t like to work out or fat people eat a lot. Now I’m plus size myself and I’m on the journey to love my own body. The only issue I had, is that it felt as if the stereotypes of fat people was her only personality trait. I really liked to see that Lahey was okay in her own skin. I was excited for the main character to be plus size. When Summer says that Lahey will be without a date for her party, Lahey decides to try and find her own match. On top of being a matchmaker, she is also dealing with the drama between her and her cousin Summer. She’s always trying to set someone with someone.

Lahey is a matchmaker in heaven for everyone but herself. Thank you so much to, , and for the opportunity to read this WONDERFUL ARC! I enjoyed it so much that I read it in one day! I cannot wait for this book to come out!!!!

I definitely recommend this book for people who liked Better Than The Movies by Lynn Painter !!! They both have the same vibe with a sweet teen/high school romance AND are such good books that you just can’t put them down! I think that this book will be great for the modern YA audience (and also great for the adult audience who loves a good YA romance…hehe). I think this book is super interesting as a YA book because it walks a nice line between nice fluffy interactions but not completely ignoring aspects of a 17 year olds relationships and what her and her friends would talk about!

This book is a quintessential teen/YA book! It has so many wonderful characteristics: a great, relatable main character an interesting dilemma and a boy next door! How hard could that be? Well apparently not as easy as setting up other people… Throughout Plus One, Lahey goes through a series of dates, trying to find the perfect guy to take to the birthday celebration, but with 6 options and less than a week, will Lahey be able to find the perfect guy? Find out in Plus One, releasing on 5/16/23!!!

Lahey is just a high school girl, a matchmaker one could say, who is just trying to find a date for her cousin (more like arch nemesis) Summer’s 16th birthday.

Last chance books by kelsey rodkey