The Temperature of Me and You is a story about two boys meeting, sharing secrets, falling in love, and dealing with issues larger than they can handle. The characters are ok. The love-struck boy, the peppy-cheerleader, the angry girl, the hot (literally) crush. It was an okay story and written in an okay way. I wouldn’t rush to suggest this book, but it’s there in my back pocket in case someone is looking for a recommendation with LGTBQ leads.

2.5/5 stars.

I had a really hard time sticking with this book. First off, the cover is gorgeous and the synopsis was so promising but it just really feel flat for me! I think the biggest issue for me was the writing style, it was very explain-y with not a lot of actual substance. I also just felt like the characters were very shallow and I had a really hard time rooting for them. I really wanted to like it more but it just wasn’t for me.

I was so thankful to receive this arc from netgalley. Everything about this book intrigued me; cover art, the synopsis. This book was so easy to read and so enjoyable. It was entertaining from the beginning, taking off with a quick pace and staying steady.

It’s high school and silly. Dylan is SO funny. His inner dialogue was hilarious and honestly relatable (more so if I were a teen). His nickname is DYL Pickle and I’m sorry but that was one of my favorite things!!! It made me laugh. He has a really sweet relationship with his two girl best friends and also with his parents.

When we meet Dylan he’s very much the angsty, dramatic “I’ll never find love.” MC who is ordinary and gay and very introverted. He’s so precious. He works at Dairy Queen and this is where he meets Jordan.

I LOVE JORDAN and I am dying for a book in his POV. Jordan isn’t like other boys… and by that I mean he literally catches on fire. I loved the weird, sci-fi story line. It was genuinely like a superhero origin story; but Jordan isn’t a superhero. He’s a 17 year old highschooler who lost his parents and is alone. He slowly lets himself grow close to Dylan and it’s so sweet. But what happens when Dylan is too exposed to him and now HE has the same fire problem???

So many crazy things happen; the police and fire rescue are involved, there’s suspicious men following them, secrets have to be kept from loved ones, and love grows and hearts are broken, enemies become allies and self accountability is chosen.

I read this book SO fast. It was such a light, silly hearted book and I genuinely loved it so much. It was the perfect break from more serious fantasy or sadder books. I would absolutely recommend this book.

The beginning is a little slow but then it gets really cute and I loved it! I would definitely recommend this to anyone who loves feeling the warm fuzzies.

i think this was a fun book! and it pretty accurately represented how teenagers think/ speak (to a certain extent, i mean it is a ya novel). i was hoping for a little more on the realistic fiction/ romance side and a little less of a sci-fi explaining of powers, but it was a very enjoyable book nonetheless!

Thank you so much, Disney Publishing Worldwide and Hyperion, for the chance to read and review this book in exchange of an honest review!

When Dylan meets Jordan, at the Dairy Queen, he think he's completely normal, even though he runs at a cool 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Then Dylan starts to feel a lot of different things about him, even peculiar things like a fever for two weeks or coughing fire and he realizes something else is happening to him, not only a crush. When Jordan asks him to hide his symptoms, everything changes with Dylan's family and friends, until he discovers Jordan's secrets and real identity. What will happen to them and their love?

The temperature of me and you is a sweet, amazing and cute love story about first loves and what one would do to keep and protect it. I loved reading this story, it was so captivating, I fell in love with Dylan and Jordan right away and it was such a pleasure following them in their journey of love and trust and survival. Absolutely magnificent!

I thought the story was cute, but I felt like it was underdeveloped and the relationships were happening way to fast. The writing style wasn’t my favorite but it wasn’t a bad book. The action part of the book was really good tho, I like the concept of powers too!

Thank you to NetGalley and Disney Publishing for an earc of this book in exchange for my honest review!

Overall, this was a pretty solid read! I loved Dylan and Jordan, and their story was fun to read. I think this will do really well with it's intended audience, for sure!

I do wish Jordan's abilities were explained a bit more, and we got an answer on how just exactly Dylan was able to contract some of his own, though. Parts of this felt a bit rushed for me, and I think the ending tied everything up a little too picture perfect. It left me wanting answers, but I did enjoy the read overall!

Thank you Net Galley for an ARC of The Temperature of Me and You by Brian Zepka. This one is about Dylan and Jordan. I went into it expecting to like it because of all the good rebooted but just didn't. I had problems picking it back up. But I did and read the entire book.

Overall I really enjoyed this book. It was fast paced and easy to read. I love the representation of a queer young adult love story. I thought the premise of the book was interesting. I liked the overall mystery of who Jordan was and what was going to happen next? It kept me reading and I finished the book in about a day. Gave me X-Men meets Stranger Things vibes with a dash of teenage angst.

This book will warm you up during the winter months and will also make you want a Blizzard from Dairy Queen.

I did feel like there were parts that were not explained well and I felt like the ending wrapped things up too quickly. The book need 1-2 more plot points to make it more interesting or to pick up the pace. The book felt a little one note and just was missing something. I think overall the book played it a little safe, did it want to me a strictly contemporary YA book or did it want to be a fantasy YA book? I love all of the elements of the book but ultimately felt like it stayed in the middle and couldn’t quite bring it all home.

Zepka tells an amazing story with planned out plot and well thought characters. I thoroughly enjoyed every second reading this book, and cannot wait to see more of their work!

This book is veryyy YA, and honestly a bit of a refresher from my normal books. First, this cover is so beautiful it hurts. Seriously, kudos to the artist who did this cuz A+. This is delightfully cute and fluffy in only a YA novel can be. You can’t help but smile when Dylan and his friends are just being dramatic teenagers, you can’t help but feel the twang of first love when Jordan and Dylan share their first kiss, and you also can’t help but feel the heartbreak when that first love falls to pieces. This book pairs all of that with a cool twist on a superhero trope. Jordan’s ability to literal catch on fire is the main hurdle the two need to jump. I did find it a big odd that about half way through Dylan suddenly ends up with the same powers. I would of preferred if he was kept normal. It made the story less believable (I understand how that sounds but you know what I mean) and was the only part of this I felt disconnected with. Dylan’s friends deserve an honorable mention, even the eventual enemy turned friend that has a cute redemption arc. As a whole I really enjoyed this, and this cover is definitely going to draw even the most apprehensive of YA readers to pick this up.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing an eARC of this title in exchange for my honest review.

Me reading this book:
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You know the phrase, “A picture is worth a thousand words?” Well, the cover of this book provides a sneak peak of how lovely this story truly is. Dylan is completely in awe of Jordan, while Jordan is looking at Dylan like he is finally being seen for the first time. Dylan’s hand on Jordan’s chest shows how trusting he is, while Jordan shows his vulnerability by allowing Dylan’s hand, but also wanting to keep it there for the fear Dylan will run away.

Anyway, you can probably tell that I liked this book. I am definitely not the most eloquent, but I really did like this book a lot.

My heart was aching for how lonely and isolated Jordan and Dylan are before they meet and while they are trying to figure things out (their relationship and their lives). Bless their little hearts. I love them so much.

I laughed and snorted so many times while reading this. Since I had an eBook version, I bookmarked all of the times I laughed out loud. There is a lot.

This book does a wonderful job of displaying healthy yet realistic high school friendships and interactions. Although, I couldn’t get past Perry’s name, because every time I had to read it, I pictured Perry the Platypus.

Kirsten and Perry remind me a lot of Sam and Carly from iCarly, but better. (Am I allowed to say that?) I love their group activities and how much they love and support each other. I desperately wish they were real, so I would have a chance to be in their friend group.

The Temperature of Me and You was one of my most anticipated reads. I absolutely loved it. Although there were some things that weren’t perfect, it was still an amazing read.

I really loved how all the characters were relatable teens. I mean aside from the superpowers. The banter was great and funny. Their friendship was well developed in my opinion.

Once I picked this book up, I couldn’t put it down. This book lived up to my expectations. I was really invested in it.

Thank you Disney Publishing and NetGalley for providing this e-galley in exchange for an honest review.

A fiery first love beginning in a Dairy Queen… it pulled me in from the start and didn’t let go.

This book was so cute and funny and I absolutely adored the characters! I dove right and as I read the first chapter, I realized that it truly reminded me of high school and the feelings I had: the utter need to fit in somewhere, be myself.

Overall, Zepka’s storytelling is very similar to that of TJ Klune’s in “Extraordinaries” so I truly enjoyed it for that part alone, but IT’S ANOTHER QUEER SCI-FI and y’all know I DIE for those so I truly adored this book because of that as well. Someone I really appreciated was Zepka’s characters: they’re relatable teenagers. Aside from the whole superpowers thing, they’re messy, they make mistakes and they do their best.

Beyond that, the story itself was full of banter, funny, witty and so, so full of friendship. Something a lot of YA novels lack is a strong group of friends with a discovery of more along the way and that’s what this book had. It was full of friendship, a first love, and so many feelings! I think this book really cheered me up and made me smile during a couple days when I was struggling.

I adored this queer romance so much. I really loved the direction this book went and commend the author of the representation that is in this book. Thank you for the e-galley!

Thank you NetGalley for a chance to read this ARC. I overall enjoyed this book, but I did have some issues with it. It started off extremely slow. I really wasn’t a fan of them having superpowers, but that’s just me. Also, I did feel like the ending was a little rushed.

I loved the queer rep in this book so much! If this is Brian Zepka's first book, I can't wait to see what he releases next and hope the wait won't be too long.

Brian Zepka has a wonderful YA debut with this novel. It's very contemporary at its core, following Dylan on his average life through his average school and suddenly getting thrown into very unusual situations. I enjoyed this one quite a bit and am excited to see what else Brian has in store as an author.

There's a journey that Dylan goes on in this where he finds himself in anyways I don't think he really knew he was lost. For the first half of the book he's very much in his own head and not really feeling like he has anything going for him. That quickly changes when he meets Jordan, a fiery (literally) love interest, and things start to change for Dylan.

Dylan's journey is the core of this book, not the fantasy elements or boyfriend who can shoot fire, or the scientist hunting them down. These are all present and help push the story along, but it's the self discovery Dylan makes that really make this compelling. The ending gets a neat little bow and I am honestly okay with how neat it ends up.

I enjoyed the pure YA elements of this book, and without too much spoiler, I mean it has those moments that just only happen in YA books/TV/movies but are fun and interesting to see. It never crosses into the nonsense that some teen books can easily fall into, which was nice to see.

There's a fantasy element to this book because Jordan has "super powers". Some of these elements felt very unconvincing because I wasn't sold on the world building. There are elements to both the powers and the general story that I felt like were not fully developed and could have used a finer touch. However, most of my criticism on this front comes from reading this as a review copy and not simply reading it for fun. These elements don't ruin any of the enjoyment of the story, but a critical eye will have a lot of questions.

I will say the romance wasn't was hot and burning as I expected going into this. Jordan is not on screen very often, and the story mainly focuses around Dylan and Dylan alone,. It works, it's just not the YA romance I was expecting to get.

There is a lot of good in this story as well. It deals with coming out as queer and finding acceptance in others, and ourself, when someone does that. It portrays certain characters in a grey light and doesn't give them an immediate redemption. I think Brian was juggling a lot of balls with this novel and kept most of them aloft.

Thank you to Disney publishing and Netgalley for an advanced copy.

I didn't need to know anything about this book other than queer romance and super powers for me to request it.

I think felt a little too old reading this, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. This is perfect for the target audience. Brian Zepka knew exactly who he was writing for.

Although I am a lot older than our main character, I related a lot to his social anxiety. I had really big problems with that when I was in high school, and it was nice to see that represented.

The pacing was uneven and I wish I got to know Dylan and Jordan more. I don't know if I will ever reread it, but I definitely don't regret reading it once.

Overall, 3.5/5