Boomerang Boyfriend (Boyfriend Chronicles)
Chris Cannon
Book Review: ♥ ♥ ♥ ❣
Delia is Jack's sisters best friend. She is always at Jacks house, and it feels like she is almost like family. He sees her as an annoying younger sister figure and has never thought of her as anything more. That is until she ends up getting a job at his work place, and they end up taking some art classes together. When his sister isn't by Delia side, he begins to notice her as more than an annoyance.

Delia's mum and dad work a lot. She finds herself hanging out with her best friends most of the time. Zoe, her best friend has a boyfriend, and Delia is interested in his friend, Aiden. They kissed once, and now she can't work out why he's been acting strangely. The more she tries to figure Aiden out the more she seems to notice Jack. She must be having a boy break-down because Jack is a jerk. He's not boyfriend material.

For the most part, I enjoyed reading this book. Both Jack and Delia are loveable. There were so funny parts in the book, and there was more to the story than just the two of them. However, there were certain parts of the story I found a little irritating.

Delia and Jack seem to start finding each other physically attractive rather than mentally. I know they have known each other a long time, but I felt Delia was just looking for a boyfriend rather than the perfect one.


The other love interest, Aiden was my least part of the story. Delia not dating him was a big part of this book, and I just didn't love it. I felt she could have been more supportive of his situation. I didn't like her obsessing over someone who was hot, and then cold.

3.5 stars out of 5. *ARC received in exchange for a fair review*

Kindle Edition £3.76
Expected publication: September 11th 2017 by Entangled: Crush

"Boomerang Boyfriend" was overall a cute YA romance, but it felt a little full of drama at every turn with everything a bit more stretched out than it needed to be. We follow Delia and Jack in alternating points-of-view. Delia is Jack's little sister Zoe's BFF and she practically lives at their house because her parents work long hours to be able to afford their house/middle class lifestyle. Since they have been hanging out all the time since she was little, she has known Jack forever- and he fits into the annoying older brother role for her as well as Zoe.

Lately, Delia has been quasi-dating Zoe's boyfriend's BFF, Aidan, who has been giving her mixed signals and kind of put her in the friend-zone. Delia is a confident young woman with really fantastic conflict management skills and a lot of maturity that lead her to confront Aidan and figure out where they stand (which is just as friends, no more). So when she starts hanging out with Jack more, in art class, and at her new job where they are both employed, things start to evolve in that relationship as well. I'll admit that I didn't really see it coming and was surprised that their feelings started to change/it didn't really feel like it fit at first. Then it just seemed to be one thing after another- of misunderstandings, secrets, and drama-drama. I felt like it took them FOREVER to get together, and then it was just one thing after another.

The best part of the book is Delia's bright and confident personality- she's not the shy wallflower waiting for the guy to make all the moves. However, all the drama made it feel a bit slow and I found Jack a little harder to like (maybe because I haven't read the previous books, but I am not sure). He was a bit abrasive at times and seemed so different from Delia (which can sometimes be a good thing). Overall, I liked it enough to read all of it and to wait for them to finally be together, but I wish the book was even shorter and had less of the drama.

It's a very clean book, and it's relatively short, so people who like a lot of drama (jealousy, secret relationships) in their YA romance will probably enjoy it quite a bit! While it's not one of my favorites, the bright personality and strength of Delia still made it a really fun read for me overall. Please note that I received an ARC from the publisher through netgalley. All opinions are my own.

This book was ok. I liked Jake and Delia but I thought it took way too long for them to actually interact in a boy-likes-girl fashion. Not sure if it was just me, but this book also seemed shorter than other Crush stories I have read and maybe that is what has me thinking that this book could have been a little longer with more than a couple moments of mutual-like interaction for Jake and Delia. I just thought, outside of Betty's, they don't get much time alone. One "date" and that is it. I just thought there could have been more. It's like the start of their relationship is the end of the novel.

I also really like Trevor. He was a super secondary character!

I really wanted to love this book. It sounded very cute and adorable. And honestly, who doesn't love a fluffy little contemporary? Plus, that cover just makes my heart all fuzzy. But there was just some things I couldn't look past and it kind of hindered my enjoyment of this book.

I think for starters, my version of this book was formatted very poorly. I had a lot of column like pages and it made the book a little hard to read. This could be my Kindle as well. I have an older version of the Fire Kindle by Amazon. I also think that mine was uncorrected proof, which would make sense as there was a lot of little errors and sentence structure issues. This just needed a once over by an editor and I think it would be good to go.

I liked the characters for the most part. There was a lot but I was able to keep track of them all due to their personalities. They were fleshed out pretty well, which sometimes doesn't happen with contemporaries. Delia was a good and solid character. I liked that she was confident about herself but she still had insecurities. Jack was alright. He was a little over the top with his issues about Delia keeping Aiden's secret. Aidan and Zoe were fleshed out pretty well. I wouldn't mind reading a book on Zoe. She was the most fun.

Overall, I liked this book but I think the formatting issues and editing issues really hindered me from loving this book. I think it was also a bit too simplistic. But that might be a me not you type of situation. I am 24 years old and my reading tastes have changed as I have gotten older. However, despite the less than stellar review, I think this book would be good for younger teens that are interested in starting romance and contemporary novels.

Received an Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for a fair review from Entangled Publishing, LLC via NetGalley.

Boomerang Boyfriend was a cute, sweet, fun read. I have read Chris Cannon’s books before and always enjoyed them. This one did not disappoint! I was needing something on the lighter side and this fit the bill perfectly! Delia and Jack have known each other a long time, since Delia is best friends with Jack’s sister, Zoe. They have always disliked each other for various reasons, but once they start working together they realize maybe they don’t hate each other quiet as much as they thought. I really enjoyed the relationship that grew between Delia and Jack. Jack has recently had a loss and this tends to cloud his judgement at times with Delia. I loved all the interactions with Jack’s family! His mom and especially his grandma were great! I also really enjoyed the friendship between Delia and Zoe. They had the type of friendship anyone would want. Overall, I would highly recommend this book!

'Boomerang Boyfriend' is a novel about falling in love with a person you have known for a long time but only now you actually noticed her / him. Zoe and Dalia have been friends forever, Zoe has a brother who seems to be annoyed by his little sister's friend frequent visits. Everything changes when Jack (the brother) and Delia start working together and really get to know each other as teenagers. Will their relationship last? Will Zoe accept that her best friend is dating her big brother?
The novel highly focuses on the relations between people (siblings, friends and parents), but it also slightly touches the topic of death and LGBT. I enjoyed reading the book even tough the main theme of falling in love with your best friend's brother is rather a cliche, and I would appreciate a bit more suspense and a bit more humour in exchanges between the characters.

Delia and Jack never got along but when Delia becomes the new waitress at the place Jack works sparks fly. After these two share their feelings with each other they decided to keep their budding romance a secret. Why? Because Delia's best friend is Jack's sister and they're not sure how she'll react to their relationship.

This Young Adult romance is so adorable!!!

Free-spirited Delia has been the bane of Jack’s existence for more than a decade. As his little sister’s best friend, Delia and Jack have had their fair share of arguments and prank wars – to the point that Delia refers to Jack as “Jack the Jerk.” But when they start working together at Betty’s Burgers and spending more time together in their shared art class, Jack and Delia start seeing each other in a different light.

So, you guys know me. I’ve got some favorite tropes. I like enemies-to-lovers. I love friends-to-lovers. I’m also a pretty big fan of brother’s best friend and best friend’s brother. Throw in some adorable dogs like this book has, and it’s pretty hard for me not to like it.

The story here kept me entertained. There was enough tension to keep me on my toes, but not so much that I got frustrated. The conflicts were believable and I liked the characters. The problem I had was that the writing just felt awkward. And that’s the problem with reviewing ARCs. Did I get the book before the editor did? I might never know, but I’ll give Entangled and the author the benefit of the doubt.

I also felt like I was missing some key information on these characters, and going to the author’s website told me what Goodreads and Netgalley hadn’t – that this book is third in a series. I wouldn’t say that reading the first two is required, but I felt like I was expected to know some background information about the characters in order to really connect with what was going on.

Still, the book was good. I enjoyed the plot, I liked the characters, and while I might have hoped for some more interaction between Delia and Jack, I did appreciate that neither of them lost themselves or their friends in their attraction. Also, this is a young adult romance and it’s very clean, if that’s a thing you’re worried about.

Final rating: ★★★☆☆

Three and a half stars.

I have to admit, I misread the blurb on NetGalley when I requested this book and thought, for some reason, that Delia was best friends with Jack's brother not his sister!

Anyhoo, Delia has been best friends with Zoe for ever and spends probably more time at Zoe and Jack's house than her own. Delia's parents work anti-social shifts and appear to be a bit switched-off, they don't remember to buy food and sometimes it seems as though Delia is the adult taking care of her feckless parents. Having said that, money is clearly tight and her parents love her, they just aren't often THERE.

Zoe and Jack have been touched by tragedy when their father and grandfather were killed in a car crash, at first their mother also seemed to have checked out but she seems to be doing better. They all three live with Zoe and Jack's grandmother. Zoe is dating Grant and Delia had high hopes of dating Grant's best friend Aidan, but he has firmly friend-zoned her after she spontaneously kissed him.

Delia is starting work at Betty's Burgers as the new dessert princess - basically she serves slices of cake and sings happy birthday if someone has a birthday (when they get a free slice of cake). Jack already works at Betty's which is a problem because Jack is a complete jerk. But it seems as though the fates are conspiring against Delia because not only does she have to see Jack every time she spends time at Zoe's house AND work with him but as his class' art teacher has left suddenly he is also taking art classes at school with her. But as they are forced into even close proximity Jack and Delia discover they may have more in common than they thought and the person who irritates them the most may also see them the best.

I have tagged this as "angst-angst-angst" because of Delia's parents and Jack and Zoe's situation and Jack's best friend whose brother died of an overdose, heck even Aidan has problems at home. But at the same time I have tagged it as low-angst because these things are just background and the actual plot is relatively angst-free.

I liked this, but I didn't love it. I see from Goodreads that this is the third in the Boyfriend Chronicles series and although it can definitely be read as a stand-alone there is definitely the feel that maybe I missed something - perhaps the start of Delia's crush on Aidan?

Overall, a sweet YA romance about your best friend's older brother, it's got dogs and pie and art jokes and it's about normal kids with normal names, albeit that some of them have had to deal with some difficult circumstances.