I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a really cute YA love triangle with a fun dash of magic. I thought that the premise and the characters were really compelling and the family dynamic was interesting. I would have loved a little more of the small town energy and information about the blessing itself since those were the aspects that caught my attention in the description. I had a lot of fun reading this book and I really loved the magic and romance of the ending!

The aunts made this book really unenjoyable for me. I get that the whole family dynamic was part of the story, I'm just not a fan.

**Thanks to St. Martin's Publishing Group via NetGalley for inviting me to read this e-arc in exchange of my honest opinion.

Title: All the Stars Align  
Author: Gretchen Schreiber          
Genre: YA  
Rating: 4 out of 5

All the women in Piper’s family know their true love at first sight, complete with butterflies, heart eyes, and a gut instinct. The kind of fated love that lasts forever. Piper grew up with her ancestors' epic love stories repeated like fairy tales, and yearns for the day she’ll start her own. Already singled out in her family due to her physical disability, Piper collects a second strike against her when her parents announce their divorce, which convinces her family that she’s doomed.

When she finally finds her true love at a party, she’s more determined than ever to attain her love story and earn a spot in her family. But after completely botching their first meeting, she realizes that she’ll need help from her best friend Leo, who is sort of a love expert. The catch—he and Piper haven’t talked in six months, since he needed a “break” from their friendship.

To win over the love of her life and a place in her family, Piper must convince Leo to teach her his ways. And it’s all going as planned…until Leo confesses his own love for Piper. Now, she must decide which fate to follow.

I thought this was a cute read. Did it hold anything unexpected? Nope. But it was still a cute read. I liked Piper and her friends a lot—and her parents, for that matter. Her aunts kind of made me want to smack them several times, and their incessant meddling and “predictions” were annoying. I kind of wished the epilogue had been ten years in the future so I could see how everything played out, but this was a quick, fun read.

Gretchen Schreiber lives in Los Angeles. All the Stars Align is her debut novel.

(Galley courtesy of St. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest review.)

(Blog link live 4/9).

Lately, I’ve been reading a lot of YA books for work—so much so that I wonder if it’s starting to shape my perspective a little too much. I went into All the Stars Align with high expectations. While I didn’t dislike it, I also didn’t love it. It’s an above-average YA book, but it didn’t fully click with me.

That said, one standout aspect is the representation. Having a main character with a disability is a great move by the author, and it’s something we don’t see often enough in YA. Piper is determined not to let her family down and is searching for her soulmate—the person she’ll recognize at first glance. The characterization was strong, but I found the pacing uneven, with sections that felt bogged down.

I have no doubt this book will find its audience—I just wasn’t the right one for it.

***Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an eArc copy in exchange for my honest review.***

"All the Stars Align" follows Piper, who has grown up around women who experience their true love at first sight. (No pressure, right?) Readers can go along on this journey alongside Piper, who becomes insecure in her journey of love. I appreciate the book's representation of disABILITY, as it made Piper more relatable and lovable. Of course, while on this journey, Piper turns to a friend... Leo... in hopes that he can help her. When Leo confesses his love for Piper, she knows she must make a decision.

This book grips the readers and has them rooting for Piper and Leo. Will true love prevail? Read and find out.

A beautiful story about fate and choosing your own path.

I wanted the choice to be a little less obvious and Piper to be a little less oblivious, but overall, solid.

This was a fun, magical romance read. The idea of a family blessed to find their fated love in a town with some magic was a great concept and explored really well. Love triangles can be hard to pull off but this one was done well and I really liked the friends to lovers aspect. Piper’s family was interesting and the side characters definitely rounded out the story.

Dnf

I did love the idea of a small town with hidden magic, but I just couldn’t warm up to the characters. Their relationships felt stiff and the dialogue was a bit awkward. However, it’s possible that someone who enjoys love triangle stories may enjoy it more than I did. Thank you to SMP for the arc.

All the stars align is a unique take on fate and a love triangle. Which path does fate want you to take. While also focusing on our main character family we get to focus on how some love stories end and how love isn't always enough. The pressure of family and their expectation and the pressure it puts on us. Our main character has a disability that limits the way she sees herself and how she think it affects her relationships. Very cute romance. 🥰

This was a really sweet book! There were honestly a few times I wanted to grab Piper and shake her, but it’s because I was invested in the story. It’s a sweet, friends-to-lovers tale that has a ton of great minor characters that add to the story. Enjoyed this just like her first book!

Since all the women in Piper's family have the ability to know their true love at first sight, she waits to meet the one and solidify herself in her family's lore. But is that knowledge a gift or a curse? The story is different from most love at first sight books, and incorporates a female lead with a disability, but it left a little to be desired. Am I sad I read it, not at all, it just wasn't my favorite.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the Publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was cute, but sometimes annoying. It’s supposed to be YA, but it honestly felt more middle grade.

All the Stars Align was a quick read. The main character was not great, if felt like she needed to stop listening to everyone else's opinions. This was a rather predictable book. Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for the opportunity to read this book.

This is a YA romance book about a family that has the gift of knowing who their true love is when they meet them. Piper is a senior in high school and she has a disability (really enjoyed the disability representation in this book). She finds herself in a sort of love triangle with the person she knows is the one and her best friend Leo who was hoping it was him. I thought the book was good; however, it was very repetitive at times. It was dragging through the middle part and I just couldn't get into it fully.

What an interesting story about fate versus love. Piper's physical deformity definitely plays a role in her need to fit in with her family and with others. The divorce of Piper's parents is more central to the story than expressly written since it defies the family's stance on fated relationships. There is a lot of family drama, but the interactions of Piper and her aunts is so genuine and heart-felt that you can't help but feel the typical adolescent angst as well as the weight of family responsibilities. Thank you to Austin Adams of St. Martin's Publishing Group (Wednesday Books) for allowing me to read an ARC copy of this book, as I found the story to be a more refreshing coming of age story that what is generally current today. The characters are genuine, the situations authentic, all with a twist of the supernatural where fate is concerned. Leo is, of course, one of my favorite characters! When the last page is turned, the story is a feel-good story about finding your true self.

I loved the story, the world building and meeting the different characters. I felt completely immersed in the story and couldn't stop reading it.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for this E-Arc, in exchange for an honest review.

All the Stars Align by Gretchen Schreiber is a young adult novel t's about a girl in her last year of high school who has a disability. Her family has this thing where the women know *instantly* when they meet 'The One.' Like, BAM! Fireworks! Called 'The Blessing.' This girl's not interested in dating unless she gets that lightning bolt feeling.

Her best friend, Leo, is secretly hoping he's the guy, but she just doesn't see him that way, which is a bummer.

When she *does* finally feel that special connection, I was a little weirded out. She starts, like, *saying his name* before she even knows who he *is*! Seriously?

Honestly, the book felt kind of...stuck. It kept going over and over the same stuff about 'The Blessing' and how everything is meant to be. Like, we get it! It felt like the author was trying to drill it into our heads. It made the story feel longer than it should have been, like I was reading the same page a bunch of times.

I liked the basic idea of the book, the whole 'meant to be' thing. But it was just *too much*. All that repeating made me lose interest. I wanted to like it more, but it just felt like it was dragging!
3.25 Stars

This was a rather predictable book. If I had not committed to doing a review, it would have been a DNF. Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book

All the Stars Align by Gretchen Schreiber is a young adult novel about a disabled girl, a senior in high school who has what is called "The Blessing" in her family. The females in the family are basically 'hit by lightning' when they meet their true love and that was it, fate took over and they would be together forever. She didn't see the point of dating anyone until she felt that bolt from fate. Unfortunately, her best friend Leo wants to be the one, but she didn't feel that for him, so that ended that! When she does finally feel that feeling, what totally pulled me out of the novel was her using his name... before she knew it. Bad editing or oversight, this should be fixed before publication. The novel was slow, repetitive and could have been much shorter if they hadn't gone over the blessing and fate repeatedly, as nauseum. I loved the concept, but felt it was beaten to death to the detriment of the novel.

Thank you to the author, publisher and Netgalley for an ARC of this novel in exchange for my honest review.

Ummmmm, I really really wanted to love this book. I liked it well enough, but the premise was so ridiculously overwrought. I wanted mostly just to strangle this chick because she couldn’t pull her head out of her butt! I feel like it was just too hard to suspend disbelief about her story. Too hard to envision a world where this would have been happening. And don’t get me wrong - I can dig me some fantasy. But this didn’t cut it for me. Sorry.