Miranda Kenneally is always an author I will respect and love, just because of who she is as a person. But something that will make her one of my favorite authors is her ability to take the cheesiest, most wholesome, sweetest, steamiest book and turn it into a classic YA romance that will be loved by teens all over the world. I wish I could have read this book in high school. It's the kind of romance you dream about in high school, that is easily attainable (sort of), but this would have made me smile and giddy if I read it as a lovesick teenager. It still did as a cynical adult.

I loved that Kenneally did something different in this book. I love the one POV. To me, it really put into perspective that you're not always the right one. Lulu and Alex had quite a bit of fights, but to me, the intriguing thing about it was Lulu's perspective that she was the right one. Of course, when you are hurt, you want to be the right one. You forget your partner's perspective to favor your own. It was really powerful, and I think a really great lesson.

I think that the reason this was a 4 star instead of a 5 star was that this was a book I could read from a lot of YA romance writers. Not to say that's a bad thing, but it's not a 5 star unique and life-changing book. I absolutely loved this book though. I can't wait to get it in the hands of teens and hopefully have Miranda at my book festival again!

Thank you NetGalley and Sourcebooks for this ARC!

3.5*

“Did Alex really touch my hand? What does it mean? I need to check my horoscope ASAP.”

Four Days of You and Me was an enjoyable read. If you’re looking for a transformative YA novel where the characters are already established and have nothing to learn or grow from, (which sort of defeats the purpose of transformative, but whatever) then this one probably isn’t for you. Four Days of You and Me is a light-hearted YA romance read. The characters are flawed, they make mistakes, they make more mistakes, and when they learn from those mistakes, they still make a few more. Personally when I pick up a YA romance, I’m not looking for a personality guidebook. So Alex and Lulu’s on and off again dynamic works for me. Lulu is the schools “garden girl” aka hippie, and Alex is the popular baseball player who also works at his family’s restaurant all of the time. Lulu has dreams of writing/illustrating graphic novels, and Alex just wants more than the family business. They have cute tension from the start, and their story is told in LuLu’s POV over the course of their high school years. The story does time jump a bit, and it takes awhile for it to not feel so disjointed. But once I caught on to the yearly field trip, vs the months prior, it wasn’t so bad.

I loved Lulu and Alex’s sweet back and forth. I loved all of their friends. I loved that even though they had drama with other boyfriends/girlfriends along the way that they ended up eventually working those things out. I realize that many people don’t want to read the main characters with other people, but that aspect of this book made it feel relatable. The natural ebb and flow of love. Especially young love when you’re still figuring out you and not just you with someone else.

All in all this was a good read. It’s entertaining. It’s two young people growing into themselves and figuring it out how they can fit together better. If you’re looking for that, combined with a super cute rollercoaster of emotional teenage angst, then Four Days of You and Me is a winner.

I've been a fan of Miranda Kenneally for years so I was thrilled to get an arc of this new story. Overall, I found this to be a super cute read and a really neat concept. The flashbacks were a great way to get to know the characters and thought this was a cute, romantic read with some heart. Thank you netgalley for this arc in exchange for my honest opinion and I look forward to more from Kenneally!

Four Days of You and Me was a fun book that was able to pull me in and keep my attention where other books couldn't in these crazy times. It had an upbeat feel and didn't go so deep in emotions that I wanted to shy away from it. (Sad, I know, but these times make me crave light and easy.)

What I liked about Four Days of You and Me:

*Like I said, it was pretty much upbeat the most of the time. Even when the characters had struggles, it had that sweet contemporary feel.
*Lulu was a great character. She was a bit of an outcast, but I liked that about her. I guess that part was a little cliche, but I didn't mind.
*While I wasn't 100% happy with the way Alex treated Lulu all the time, I did think he really liked her. I loved when he showed his kindness and love. He frustrated me a lot in his boyish ways, but he was a boy in high school so it was exactly how it should have been.
*It took me a while to get used to the format of a day of school field trips each year and then flashbacks in between. I liked the way it was set up for the most part.

What wasn't my favorite:

*The flashbacks were cool because I felt like that's when I got to see snippets of their day to day relationship, but it also made me crave more of those times. I wanted to see their relationship actually unfold, and I was robbed of that.
*I needed an epilogue that took place one year after.

Overall, I enjoyed reading Four Days of You and Me. It was a light YA romance that was almost everything I needed in these dark times.

Interesting story, characters were your typical adolescents, and plot was based around field trips over the course of four years. I would have liked to read more about the time in between field trips; however, I think it was a unique idea to tell the story in that manner. Overall, a good read!

This one was disappointing. The concept was interesting but barely pulled off here. The quality of the writing was the bigger problem though with clumsy descriptions and weak characterization.

A great book for high school students--moves fast, a really neat idea to frame the story around four field trips and the ups and downs of one romance. A great blend of realism and the romance we all want.

I really liked the sound of this book and was really looking forward to reading it as this was my first Miranda Kenneally. Whilst it was a light-hearted, quick read it unfortunately didn’t live up to my expectations. I found myself struggling to connect with Lulu and Alex and finding myself emotionally invested in this story.

I also did not like how the story ended. Throughout the last section I found myself skim reading and then it felt like the book ended so abruptly that some of the main questions and plot points were left unanswered. I feel like we could have had an epilogue at least to tie up loose ends.

Sadly, this book just wasn’t for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for providing me with a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Four days of you and me is actually a book that is outside of the Hundred Oakes series. I actually really liked this book and I hope that we will possibly get more books about the characters like we did with the Hundred Oakes series.

The plotline was really unique. I liked how the plot took place during each major field trip each year. Alex and Lulu hated each other but they somehow always wound up causing trouble and being late for curfew during each trip no matter if they were together or not. The bantering was fun and I just liked the pacing.

I wish we had gotten Alex’s point of view, but this was still a good book. I’d definitely recommend this book to anybody who is a fan of young adult contemporary books.

This book was provided to me from Netgalley. It has no impact on my thoughts, my thoughts and opinions are my own. This was a four star rating. Thank you Netgalley and publisher for allowing me the chance to read this.

This was my first ever Miranada Kenneally book and it was not just a great read but it was an experience for me. Reading a good book is always a pleasure. Once you start reading , you can't stop and time flies by. That's exactly what happened to me while I reading this one. I started it at midnight and finished it in one go. My only thought after was that I am sleep deprived but at the same time I was so happy that it was totally worth it. I never read Miranda Kenneally's books before so it was a new experience for me and was totally worth my time. ⠀
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So a huge thank you to Netgalley and SOURCEBOOKS fire for a chance to read and review this book early.⠀
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This story is centered around two school kids - Alex and Lulu and ofcourse their group of friends. This book is divided into four stages of their adolescence life - Freshman , Sophomore, Junior and Senior year of high school. They met when both of them were competing for the post of president of their class. They shared a moment backstage but unfortunately nothing came out of that until their trip. Their relationship follows through their four years at school and in each year we get to see Alex and Lulu (and their friends) at different stages of their life and relationship. Break ups, love triangles, coming out of the closet moments, friendships - you name it, this book has it all. The best thing is that Kenneally's characters and their narrations changed as time passed. It was beautiful to see them mature and getting a better understanding of themselves. It was amazing. It was a clever portray of teenage years and first love told in Lulu's point of view. Though it had it's fair share of dramatic moments but it was written with great love and care.This book made me nostalgic for my teen years. This one is totally for the fans of Jenny Han and Sarah Dessen. This book was on my mind long after I finished it and I highly recommend it. I am definitely need to check out her other books. It comes out on May 5 and hope you like it as much as I did.⠀
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Happy reading!

This was the first book of Miranda Kenneally I have ever read, and unfortunately it did not work for me. I was initially excited about the concept of a certain day (that happens to be my birthday) playing out across all four years of high school, but unfortunately found the plot to be pretty childish. However, it wasn't "bad" -- just not a book for me.

I've been a big fan of Miranda Kenneally's for some time now, so I might have squeed a little when NetGalley approved me for this ARC. Kenneally writes great girl characters who take charge of their own lives and destinies, even when they are doing something unexpected or unusual.

Or at least, that's what I expect from a Kenneally novel.

This one is different.

Set over four years and four class trips, the book follows Lulu and Alex as their relationship changes through the years. Initially enemies thanks to something that happened back in grade school, Lulu and Alex find themselves drawn to one another after getting locked into an escape room together while on a field trip to a museum.

Lulu is a good girl, shy and bookish. She spends a lot of time in her room working on a graphic novel she's been writing for years. Alex is a baseball player and spends most of his spare time working at his family's pizza restaurant. He runs with the popular crowd at school and has the sense of entitlement to match.

Yet somehow, Lulu and Alex work. Until they don't. But even then, they can't stop looking at one another. Even when each of them is dating someone else.

This is a fairly straightforward romance novel with all the usual falling in and out of love, yearning and angst. Because we only saw the characters for brief moments in each of the four years, we only saw the key moments in their relationship rather than the fullness of it.

I think I would have liked this more if the characters had felt more authentic. Alex was both a douche and too good to be true at the same time, while Lulu was more insipid than I would have expected from a Miranda Keneally girl. Quirks the characters were given felt like identifying markers rather than organic parts of real people. A boy with a troubled home. A vegan. A gay athlete unwilling to come out.

But despite these things, I did enjoy reading the book. The jumping around in time was a fun way to see how the relationship grew and changed over time. And the different places they went on their school trips was interesting too. I was almost embarrassed for them in London when they acted so much like typical American tourists...

So while this is not my favorite book by this author, I don't regret reading it.

Another great book and loved the enemies to lover's book. I liked seeing the growth of both of them over the past 4 years. I liked that this took place on different field trip from a science museum to amusement park and NYC and even Paris. I loved her friends.

Four Days of You and Me is a young adult novel about falling in love, friendships and following your dreams. The story is set over three years and jumps between three school trips. I did enjoy this book, it was a nice simple read. I loved the travel element to the book and found it fun visiting amazing places! However, I didn’t love the characters and found the book a bit too sexual. Some of the characters reactions to situations were very unrealistic and I couldn’t connect with them. The storyline unfortunately didn’t grab me. Saying this, I did overall enjoy the book. I would have liked a bit more focus on the friendships rather than the romantic relationships. This book was what I needed! I had had an extremely busy week so it was nice to read something simple and easy.

Loved this YA romance! Alex and Lulu are such sweet, quirky characters who you can root for from the get-go. I love the way their story/relationship progresses through the years—sort of like “One Day” but without all the tragedy. The whole cast in this book is great and the storyline original. It’s the first I’ve read by Keneally but definitely made me want to read more.

Lulu’s and Alex’s story took me right back to young love and the bonds of friendship in high school! I feel that Miranda did an amazing job at capturing the trials, tribulations and joys of being in high school!

I loved seeing the progression of their relationship! I also loved seeing the other relationships grow! There were so many pieces of this story that just captured my attention and my heart! You had Alex’s and Lulu’s relationship, friendships, their futures and most importantly their overall dynamic as a group! Seeing things progress throughout the years made this story so interesting! I loved the flashbacks through the particular school year to show why things are the way they are on that class field trip!

Alex and Lulu are easy to fall in love with; their dynamic is contagious and I didn’t want to put this book down!

This was such a well written high school love story. YA novels can be hit or miss but Kenneally did a great job with the back and forth, giving us just enough about the setting and characters to make the book flow.

I enjoyed the characters -- Lulu and Max are fantastic, the travel aspect which brought Lulu and Alex back together, and lastly, seeing the characters grow from freshman year to the end of their senior year was a great reminder of my high school days. I can't help but wonder what the Coffee County kids are up to now.

It was a soft romance, nothing too heavy for a YA audience. There is a bit of a cliffhanger at the end, making me wonder if we will see a book #2.

Four Days of You and Me follows the story of Alex and Lulu over 4 years of high school. Each chapter focuses on a different year of their journey together - meet-ups and break-ups, heartbreak and laughter, wins and mistakes. 

As a big fan of Miranda Kenneally, I was so excited to start reading her new novel! I was happy to find out that it had the spark of her other books  - the characters were just as quirky and charming and the plot well-written.

I couldn't help but like Lulu - she's strong-willed and confident, creative and smart, and has her own back no matter what. Both Lulu and Alex had a lot of growing up to do as they had to find themselves before they found a way to be with each other. It's about their journey as individuals and as a part of a couple.

The book is full of many funny, sweet, and bittersweet moments. It's the perfect read for curling up on the coach on a cold weekend afternoon! If you love reading swoon-worthy romance YA novels - this one is definitely for you! 

I have kindly received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire in exchange of a fair review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Miranda Kenneally is one of the few YA authors who is almost always a sure thing for me.

But even favorite authors sometimes miss the mark, and unfortunately Four Days of You and Me was one of those books for me. The pacing and the sort of chaotic back and forth of the timeline did me in. I am not a patient enough reader to be bounced around that many times while still trying to connect with the characters and care about their circumstances. Ultimately this one was a miss for me. DNF at 25%.

I signed for this because I loved Catching Jordan. I've re-read it about a couple of times over the years...

I loved the story... I know it was YA and about PG 14 so I gave it a leeway. It kinda reminded me of the lastest release by Monica Murphy... the story was told through periods of time of Lulu's and Alex's love-life... I know I'm not the author, but gosh, I wishes this was expanded more, made it a wee bit more mature and didn't leave me hanging... it left me hanging... Am I the only one who feels this way? After that last page? It frustrated me, I'm sorry... It was all going alright until the last couple of chapters and after that last page I was like, whaaaat? What happened next? There was no friggin epilogue! And I live for epilogues because I'm a sucker for definite happy endings in the books that I read....**wails** lol