Cute and fun YA book
Sweet romance and quick read about how sometimes romantic love is hiding right in front of you.

I love unrequited best friend books. I'm a sucker for them. Maybe its because almost all my BFF have been male? I don't know. But they are my favourite type of book and when you find one thats a YA you know its going to be so sweet.

This was my first read by Molly so I had no expectations at all. I liked her writing style, I felt like I was there at the party and loved how the book was wrote over one night, so it felt more like real time. The characters were all relatable. There was the cliche characters and those who I could imagine being my friends or even friends of my daughters at school.

Braylen is amazing. I loved her! She has such a fun personality, but she is also an amazing friend to Fynn. I get why she tried to do everything she could to make him happy, even if it effected her happiness (Hmm, think I've been there at some point myself in my youth - can't say it ended like it did for Braylen and Fynn though!!). Fynn is your stereo typical blind boy. He just doesn't see what's right in front of his face and as the book goes on you want to slap him (Like his friends do in many ways) for not seeing what everyone else does.

This book has a great HEA but best of all is that there are more books in the series. I want to know what Zoey did as payback to Gordon so will be reading the next book when its released! I give Love In The Friend Zone a solid 4 stars, what a great YA romance!

I'd love to read and review this book, but I prefer reading books in Mobi format on my Kindle, not PDF. I also don't read on my phone, computer, or tablet. I'd read and review it if the format gets changed!

Reading about storms in teacups is how I approach YA stories, because I sort of remember that nothing seemed more important than a crush returning your feelings and the obsession over college choices.

‘Love in the Friend Zone’ all but practically takes place over the course of an evening during a graduation party, as you’re thrust straight into the climax of a story after being given a rushed run down of Braylen’s unrequited feelings and Fynn’s inability to see that she has always been in front of him.

Within this time period, Bray vacillates between wanting the best for Fynn and struggling with her own desires and jealousy, while Fynn remains oblivious which is the status quo for teenage boys as it seems. All this is well and fairly typical—it’s the hormonal teenage years after all—but I probably would have liked this better if the story focused less on Bray’s overwhelming angst and her inability to be convinced that Fynn would ever want her.

Fynn’s sudden realisation that he’d been in love with her all along was somewhat cringeworthy, since it had to take a confession from Bray to get his head out of his own arse. Granted, I’m not someone who can easily accept sudden switch of the flip type epiphanies particularly when it comes to a party realising he/she had been in love with someone all along because it can, in some cases, get extremely hypocritical.

The events at this particular party did however, got more and more ridiculous, taking a rom-com’s blithe journey to a climax of mistaken identities, stunts and high drama. Expect juvenile jokes, and even more juvenile pranks and a huge load of emotional spikes and valleys…all before Fynn and Bray actually get it together.

If this review is sounding as though there's some impatience on my part, it’s probably me having a hard time admitting I’m quite much older with different tastes now. But if it's not for me personally, teens coming of age would probably relate to this completely.

I have to start by saying I love the opportunities to read and review books and be introduced to new authors. With that being said, not every book will be for me and this one wasn't. I really tried but could not connect with the story or the characters. I didn't care for Braylen, Fynn and definitely not Katy, however, I did like Randy who was one of the side characters. I've read plenty of YA books and loved them, so I'm not sure why I couldn't connect with this one. I felt as if something was missing between the characters. Braylen and Finn had a close friendship; a friendship that has been going on for years, but I didn't feel that connection. Braylen was desperately in love with Fynn which you could tell by her actions and feelings towards what was going on, but when he finally confessed his love for her it didn't feel believable. The story also dragged a lot; it was very slow with really no action going on so maybe that was another reason it was hard to really get into. It's hard to explain; its almost as if there was drama with no real action. The whole story takes place over a day and the next morning; graduation day/graduation night and the next morning and that was not the problem at all but I expected more; more from the characters and more from this story.