I didn't love this one as much as Tweet Cute. There was too much about her trying to get over him and not enough time spent developing their relationship since we're already past the BEI and they've both become somewhat awkward around each other. I would have liked more cute moments together or maybe some more flashbacks so we could really understand how close they had been.
I did really enjoy watching the relationship develop between Abby and Savannah. The thing with the parents was weird but the way they slowly become closer felt really authentic because there was the push and pull between wanting to be close and know each other and the sadness that some of their pasts had been lies and missed opportunities.
I also appreciate the coming of age aspect and finding where you fit, even if it's different than where you think you should be or you think your parents want you to be, and how open and honest conversations can save a lot of heartbreak and misunderstandings.
This is was a good follow up to Tween Cute, although it didnt grab me quite in the same way in terms of the romantic relationship. I'll definitely be looking forward to more books from Emma Lord.

Another excellent YA contemporary book from Emma Lord. I had so much fun following Abby as she navigates changing dynamics with friends and family, and growing up a little along the way. Sleepover summer camp plus discovering a long-lost sister gives off very-welcome 'Parent Trap' vibes, but there is so much more to Emma Lord's story. Highly recommended!

You Have a Match is a fun YA contemporary read about Abby, a stubborn teenager, who does a DNA test and inadvertently discovers she has an older sister.

I found Abby challenging at times, but was rooting for her as the story progressed. The summer camp setting was also a nice break from the more holiday books I have been reading recently, and made me long for the days of summer.

Overall, I read the book in about a day and would recommend it to YA lovers. Thank you to Wednesday Books and Netgalley for my complimentary ARC. All opinions are my own.

In You Have A Match, sweet but sometimes stubborn Abby takes a 23 and Me-style DNA test with her best friend Leo, whom she appears to be very much enamored with. The results of the test link Abby with an unknown and longlost older sister Savannah who is a “savvy” (in name and in personality) and even keeled insta influencer. Savvy convinces Abby to come to camp and unravel their family stories. Drama ensues - especially when Leo shows up!
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In between my Christmas reads it was immensely pleasurable to jump into summer camp. The characters are well elucidated and romances were, ok a little frustrating, but sweet. What really works here is the deep, engrossing, and all encompassing feelings that always seemed to come in adolescent summers: when everything feels like it has weight and each moment that passes is significant. As a person in my mid thirties, I’m like “get over it, you youths!” But I really do remember those feelings. In all, an enjoyable YA outing.
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Read if you like: the PNW, summer camp, family dramas
Read with: bug juice (it doesn’t come in a jar 🎶)
Read in: a tree or a cabin.
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Thank you @netgalley and @wednesdaybooks for my advance copy! This comes out 1/12, definitely give it a shot.

this might be more of a 3.5 for me, but i'm rounding up because i read this really quickly and did still enjoy it quite a bit! i think i like Emma's debut, Tweet Cute, just a bit more, but there are definitely aspects in this book that i really enjoyed that make this book stand out too.

i think the highlight of this book really was the sister relationship and family dynamics, and i'm glad that took precedence over Abby's crush for the majority of the novel. it was really interesting to see Abby and Savvy (i'm just now realizing their names rhyme) get to know each other, and i thought the development of their relationship was great.

the camp setting was also great because we see Abby make new friends and learn a lot about herself in the process. i loved exploring all of the different secret meet-up spots and trails in the camp and all that, but seeing Abby fall back into love with her photography was definitely my favorite part about the camp setting.

i really liked the side characters, especially Finn and Mickey. i didn't love the weird jealous love-triangle that wasn't really a love-triangle between Abby, Finn, and Leo because it was only used as a way to get back at Leo for hurting Abby when she refused to simply have a conversation about things that happened?

Emma Lord seems to have a trend of miscommunication / "characters waiting too long to have an important conversation" in both of her novels so far, and i'm not going to lie, i don't really love it. a large majority of the Abby-Leo-Connie drama could have been prevented by Abby just talking to Leo, but i am glad they didn't end up together earlier than they did. teenage relationships and friendships can be messy in reality, so i don't think it's entirely unrealistic in the way it was handled in this book. and the romance was a cute friends to lovers moment.

a lot of this book might have been fun and sweet and full of jokes, there were also a lot of serious conversations that i thought were handled well in the writing, including talk about losing a loved one, adoption, and buried family secrets. i think what i like most about Emma's writing is that i can really see her personality shine through, but the characters are still well developed and are uniquely their own and it's not a self-insert type of situation. i follow Emma on twitter, and her humor is truly all over her books (in a good way).

as for the lgbtq rep: there are sapphic side characters, and an implied aro-ace side character!

I had a smidge of a book hangover and knew I needed something fun and light to get me through it. You Have a Match is funny and sweet and fast paced. The Parent Trap-esque story of two girls who discover they are sisters (and complete opposites) through a DNA test and then spend the summer at camp trying to figure out what happened was just a perfect Saturday afternoon read. I will happily pass my copy on to my girls and can't wait to read more from Emma Lord.

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Title: #YouHaveAMatch
Author: @dilemmalord
Publisher: @wednesdaybooks
Pub Date: 1/12/21
Type: #PhysicalBook #ARC
Genre: #YoungAdult #ContemporaryFiction #Romance
Must Read Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I absolutely LOVE everything that Emma Lord writes. I didn't know if You Have A Match could rival Tweet Cute, but this was such a fun, light-hearted and really heartwarming story about 2 long lost sisters who are reunited because of a DNA test (which I thought was such a cool and unique storyline). This book also features some LGTBQIA+ characters which I thought added a really nice element to the book and I truly loved each of these characters for their flaws, quirkiness and desire to be loved for who they are. And while this is Young Adult (YA), there were some really great lessons about forgiveness, acceptance and taking a chance on love. I wish the story focused a bit more on the romance between Leo and Abby, but I think Lord did a fantastic job of balancing everything.

Thank you so much for my {gifted} copy Wednesday Books!

I loved Tweet Cute, so there was no way I was going to miss this one.

I liked Abby. She smart and passionate and maybe a little bit lost. There are a good amount of characters here, but this story is firmly Abby’s story in this slice of time.

Plot wise, it was good. There’s definitely a settling period for Abby when she gets to camp, so it seems a bit all over the place at first. I will say I wanted a lot more romance and the focus is family and Abby finding her sister. And while it did seem like one drama event to another, it felt like very slow build up in conflict.

Overall, I did like this story and characters; however, I went into this expecting banter and fun and sadly I don’t think it’ll stand out in my head.

**Huge thanks to Wednesday Books for providing the arc free of charge**

This was an interesting one for me. After seeing lots of great reviews for Tweet Cute, I was excited to read this one but it fell flat for me. While I enjoyed Savvy and Abby’s family story, I needed more. The romance aspect of the novel was kind of out of place for me. I wish the focus would have been more about the family dynamics and it also took me a really long time to warm up to Savvy. I think it was well written but was definitely not my cup of tea. It may have just been too YA for my liking, but would be a good book for teens.

4.75/5 stars

This book seriously has everything you could ask of a great YA contemporary — family drama in spades; friend conflict; romance; a great and unique setting; FOOD DESCRIPTIONS.

Abby Day is the conflict-averse main character of Emma Lord's sophomore novel, a 16-year-old who takes a DNA test almost on a whim only to find out — she has a secret sister. Born to her same parents a year and a half before Abby, Savvy is an Instagram star, a rule-follower, and basically the antithesis of everything Abby is.

Yet to solve the secret of their mutual existence, they plot to show up at the same summer camp. When I say hijinks ensue, I really mean it. There are pranks and tumbles and fights and making up. There's tension between old friends and new friends and between sisters who never knew of each other. There's just...a lot of good.

I really, thoroughly enjoyed this book. At times I was overwhelmed by the sheer size of the cast of characters (definitely had a hard time keeping the more minor side characters straight), but the plot twist I would never have guessed, and there was just...so much richness to this story.

Truly, it has it all.

I loved the plot of You Have a Match. In a world where ancestry DNA testing is popular, it was nice to see a story that delved into the unexpected results people sometimes find. Like Abby learning that she has a full-blood sibling she didn't know existed.

Abby got her DNA tested because her best friend (and secret crush), Leo, was doing it. She did it to support him as he's adopted and didn't want to do it alone. Instead of Leo finding out who his birth parents are, Abby finds out she has a sister. One that is 1.5 years older than her and named Savannah. Savannah (Savvy) is a semi-famous Instagrammer. But with the small age gap, Abby and Savvy want to know why Savvy was put up for adoption.

Instead of asking their parents, they hatch a plan to spend the summer together to figure it out. Savvy is working as a counselor and Abby can attend the academic track. It also happens that Leo is a chef at the same summer camp and has known Savvy for years.

I appreciated that this story focused on the relationship of the sisters and the family drama, I just wish it went into it more. Some of the side plot-lines with minor characters felt underdeveloped for me. The romance between Leo and Abby didn't take a center-stage but I felt that it's presence left room for more development.

I enjoyed You Have a Match and can't wait to see what Emma Lord puts out next. It's a great young adult fiction novel, that focuses on a unique and topical idea.

Thank you to Wednesday Books and NetGalley for my e-ARC.

Emma Lord, the author of Tweet Cute, is back with another sweet YA romance, this time with a Parent Trap like twist.

After submitting her DNA to a testing service, Abby Day discovers she has a full blooded sister she’s never met, living just a half hour away. Her sister Savannah, who has always known she was adopted, suggests that Abby join her at camp for the summer so they can dig into their parents’ history and figure out what happened. Add to the equation that Abby’s best friend Leo is working at the same camp, and that they MAY have feelings for each other, and you have a fun rom-com with enough seriousness to balance the silliness.

Abby and Savannah plot like the sisters they are to fix their parents’ broken friendship and Abby and Leo find themselves at a relational cross-roads—will they be brave enough to take the leap?

This is the perfect, quick YA read—and if you loved Tweet Cute, this one will not disappoint. At its heart, it’s a story about sisterhood, love, and family. It should feel relatable to today’s Instagram savvy teens, but it has enough summer camp nostalgia that even thirty-somethings like me will see themselves in its pages. And the fact that it’s set smack-dab where I live is icing on the cake. The Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands are indeed just as beautiful as Lord describes in the book. I’ve seen the Orcas too, and they’re extraordinary.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this title before its publication date.

Without having read Emma Lord's debut Tweet Cute I was still very excited to read her sophomore novel You Have a Match, a story about Abby who finds out she has a full sister she has never known existed after taking a DNA test for fun with her friends. After finding out she has a sister, Abby and her sister Savvy go about trying to get to know each other. Only a few problems - neither one of their parents know they know about each other, and they lead very different lives. Abby is a skateboarding free spirit who is secretly in love with her best friend Leo while Savvy is a semi-famous Instagram influencer in a strained long-distance relationship with her girlfriend Jo.

The majority of the book takes place at camp, where the girls have lied their way into spending the summer together. As you can imagine, things don't turn out as they had expected. This was a cute YA book with plenty of angst and family drama. The relationship between Abby and Leo was a bit excruciating because neither character would communicate with each other in any way for at least 2/3rds of the book. But it definitely gave me some Lindsay Lohan Parent Trap vibes at times which I really appreciated!

I liked this book but didn't love it. Considering I am not the target audience, I still enjoyed it and thought the writing was smart and charming. I think teens will definitely love this and its wide cast of camp characters!

I think I'm the only person who didn't read Tweet Cute, so I was happy to get this from @NetGalley.

I went into this book without knowing anything about it and was pleasantly surprised that it was more than just a romance novel.

When Abby takes a DNA test and discovers a full-blooded sister just 18 months older than her, her already chaotic life gets even more upended.

Abby is a skate-boarding, tree-climbing HOT MESS and I loved her. Nuanced same-sex relationships and realistically messy friendships were other highlights for me.

Probably my favorite part was Abby realizing her parents fallibility. Absentee parents are pretty common in YA lit, but I really liked how Lord portrayed the parents as complicated humans complete with flaws and mistakes that can't really be righted.

There were some plot holes and I kind of wish the focus had been the familial relationships OR her romance. The ending felt a bit rushed but I was overall happy with it. I'll be looking for a copy for my classroom.

So heart-squeezingly adorable! Seriously, like the sweetest, cutest romance I've read in a long time. I don't read a lot of YA romance, but I loved Tweet Cute, so I didn't hesitate to give this a try. And while I wanted more Leo and Abby - like, as much Leo and Abby as I could get - this was a really cute read. There's perhaps too much focus on the sister/family storyline for my personal taste and 100% not enough romance, but Lord's got such a readable, easygoing writing style that I was still invested in the story. If you're a fan of YA romance and are looking for something that will make your cheeks hurt with its smile-inducing ending, then this might just be the book for you.

The story follows Abby, a high school student who is feeling a little lost. She's been best friends with Leo forever, but their relationship became strained after an awkward "incident" last year. So when they both take DNA tests and hers comes back with unexpected results (a sister she never knew she had), Abby isn't sure what to do with the information. As she navigates the complexities of meeting a new sister, keeping secrets from those she loves, and seeing a whole new side of Leo, Abby is forced to make some changes in herself. Attending the summer camp that both her sister and Leo are at brings that all to a head, and Abby isn't sure how to handle it all.

This is a true YA romance, with no explicit scenes and just a few kisses throughout. There's still a great connection between Leo and Abby, and I loved the amount of history between them. It's the kind of best friends to lovers romance that I love, though dampened a little bit by all of the teenage drama and the DNA storyline. Which, I actually did think was pretty unique - Abby takes one of those online tests, and her life is changed in the way that everyone always worries about when they complete them. I liked the family stuff, but that's really not what I was reading the book for, so it felt like it took away from the focus. With Tweet Cute, Lord's first book, the romance was central to the storyline and even the subplots advanced that. That's not really the case here. Yes, Abby's life changes affect her relationship with Leo, but mostly just in a way that distracts from the central plot. I liked the story, I loved Lord's writing style, and the ending gave me all the warm and fuzzy feelings. I'd have preferred a lot more romance, but this was pretty good. I received an early copy via NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving a review of this teenage romance.

I loved this book!!

Going into this book I had very high expectations because of how much I adore Tweet Cute and it did not let me down!

This book is part mystery and part summer camp shenanigans with a little bit of romance and finding your true self mixed in. Everything is believable and genuine and having now loved both these books, I think it is easy to say that Emma Lord may become an auto-buy favorite author for me.

The characters in this book are amazing!! My only complaint is that Finn kind of vanishes about half way into the book until close to the end. I understand why and that it isn't his story, but I adore him so much he may be my favorite of the book!! In fact, all the side characters are fantastic and really help to bring the story together.

Without too many spoilers, this book also hit me right in the feels. We learn early on that Abby's grandpa (Poppy) passed away a year before and throughout the whole book she talks about him and finds ways to stay connected and honor his memory. It is all so extrememly well done and at times gives a good tug at the heartstrings.

If you likes Tweet Cute or are a fan of the Parent Trap and other fun campy stories I would highly recommend checking this out. It's wonderful!

4.5/5 stars.

SO MANY COZY FEEEEELS.

I've seen this book loosely compared to The Parent Trap and while it is similar, it's so SO much better. Sorry not sorry Lindsay Lohan, but Abby and Savvy > Hallie and Annie.

Also, can I just say: Abby + Leo 4ever. Mickey + Savvy 4evaaaa too.

*insert crying emoji bc this was all just so beautiful*

Sidenote: I find it so interesting that quite a few of the novels I have recently read have taken place on West Coast, but specifically the PNW region. Love. It.

Okay, let's chat about le book:

1. What started out as a fluffy read got real dramatic real quick. I'm still trying to figure out whether I loved the way the plot went as a whole, since there were bits and pieces where I was questioning, "Ehhhh but could that have happened?" but, as Abby said it herself, her life had suddenly become the set of an MTV show while simultaneously being on the CW channel (very loose paraphrasing here, bare with me). I felt better about it the fact that she had acknowledged it herself and in the end, I just rolled with it– *fist bumps main character.* If you don't like drama though, this might not be your cup of tea.

2. Alright, moving on. About the writing itself. Good god Emma Lord, you are gifted. I've highlighted a few quotes and will come back to share them once this novel is released...can't give anything away just yet!!

3. This novel was very much with the times, which I got down with.

However. Real talk.

Lately, I've been trying to distance away from social media and have found it to be very toxic, which is no surprise (@netflix documentaries about this, hollllaaaa), soooo since this read focused a lot (and I mean a lot) on social media, Instagram in particular, I was a bit standoffish.

I will say though. Savvy does talk about how she regrets how much time she spent on social media because she knew she had missed important moments right in front of her. Missed actually living her life. Almost like she let her internet persona she had created control her and she wasn't the real her. I was like, "HECK YES SOMEONE SAID IT."

But I got confused real fast when Abby then becomes shocked by the Instagram that Leo had made for her photography (cuteness points to this though becausseeeeee he believed in her when pretty much no one else did and way before anyone did minus Poppy), and then talks quite a bit about follower count and yada yada. There's more Instagram talk later on too and it's brought up quite a bit.

I don't know if I should start mentioning trigger warnings in my reviews but count this as one. TW: Instagram/Social Media references. Call me an old soul but social media is toxic and follower count *clap* does *clap* not *clap* matter. Guess I'm just a twenty something year old grandma *le shrug*.

4. Lastly. Wish we had more Leo and Emma. Wish they didn't beat around the bush so much. I was wanting to scream at them, "JUST TALK ABOUT YOUR FEEEELINGS."

But I get it. When I was their age, I definitely wasn't going to do that. I would have buried it deep deep down and brushed it off and pretended those feelings didn't exist ((((: So I guess just like Abby did.

So, ten points to Hufflepuff! (@emmalord, ya welcome, even though I'm a Ravenclaw. <3)

If you've made it this far into my review, I applaud you. Quite brave to have follow along with the many thought noodles my brain decided to create at this late late hour.

All in all. Read this. It'll warm your heart. It'll bring back some nostalgia. It'll probably make you want to go climb a tree (just don't fall and break your arm, ok? ok).

Thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for sending me a digital ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I don't know how Emma Lord does it, but she does it and she does it well. It's been hours and I'm still giggling about pro connie lists.

This book was a fun, quick read, though I would have enjoyed if it had dived a bit deeper into any of the relationships in the book.

You Have a Match by Emma Lord was the super-cute, light read I didn't know I needed. It's the modern-day Parent Trap. I loved the story of friendship and learning to stand up for one's self, but there is A LOT happening in this book. So many different connections and relationships. It wrapped up nicely, so I wouldn't say the many different storylines were distracting or unnecessary. I'd love for there to be a sequel about Finn. Overall, an enjoyable read from Emma Lord. Now I need to go read Tweet Cute!