4.5/5 stars!!! SO GOOD and I wish there was like one more chapter or an epilogue to explore just a tiny bit more what happens next because I loved the two main characters <3

Thank you to Netgalley for the free arc!

This is a cute rom-com with a twist. Two girls realize that a third girl has been using both of them. She gets together with them privately while publicly having a boyfriend. So the two girls create a Pact to gain revenge and also promise not to fall for each other. Even though the ending was predictable, it was still an enjoyable read.

beau and charm were both played by the same girl, so they vow together to get revenge on her. make her fall in love with charm and break maia’s heart like she did theirs. nothing can go wrong right?

i had a fun time with this one! i love the there’s NO WAYYY we’ll fall in love doing this right? and then they do trope. the yearning caused by the feelings denial is 🤌🤌 especially on beaus end. she was on her hands and knees for charm before she even realized her feelings.

i loved the characters in this one. beau is a player on the surface but goes on a journey of self discovery realizing she no longer wants to be. charm is a soft soul who cares for those around her deeply. their differences compliment each other so well.

the plot of this was overall just fun. like yes is it *technically* problematic that they wanted to hurt maia to get back at her? yes but this is fiction lol i do not condone it real life ❌ it was really more of them using getting back at maia as an excuse to hang out more while they continue to deny their feelings for each other. the side characters were also so lovable which added to my enjoyment of the plot.

my only substantial complaint is too much modern/internet language. like “TBH” was in one sentence of beau’s internal monologue. it didn’t pull me out of the story too much but it did annoy me at times.

Thank you to Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing for the gifted ARC! This review contains my personal thoughts and opinions.

Call Your Boyfriend is a heartfelt coming-of-age story that blends lighthearted moments with deeper themes of identity, friendship, and love. This book did a great job of offering dual perspectives and a realistic portrayal of teenage relationships and the complexities of growing up.

What stood out most to me were the characters. Charm and Beau each brought their own unique voice to the story, and I found myself genuinely invested in their individual journeys, but also in their friendship. Charm and her BFF Ezra's friendship, in particular, was a highlight. It was authentic, warm, funny, and refreshingly supportive.

I thought the book started off strong; the revenge plot idea had me intrigued. However, as the story progressed, the pacing began to falter a bit. The ending felt rushed and left me wanting a bit more closure. While not completely unsatisfying, it didn’t quite match the anticipation that had been established earlier in the book.

Overall, Call Your Boyfriend is an enjoyable read. I think this is a great book recommendation for teens who are finding their identity and want something relatable to their high school experience.

Thank you NetGalley and Simon Teen for this arc. All opinions are my own. I enjoyed this sapphic rom-com overall. It was very readable and found myself wanting to keep returning to the story. I did like the main characters and their supporting characters, but felt like there were some complex family dynamics that were just barely touched on and then brushed away. I kind of wish other characters and storylines had been explored more (would honestly love more books in this world). I also want to mention that there is bi erasure throughout the book and it was barely mentioned in the end, without resolution or growth. At the end of the day, these are teen characters, so I definitely have some grace for their understandings of themselves and others, just wish the authors had given more time to addressing this. Again, I did enjoy the read and would read more from these authors in the future.

Call Your Boyfriend by Olivia A. Cole and Ashley Woodfolk is a smart, sapphic YA rom-com full of charm, chemistry, and emotional depth. Centered on two girls—Beau, a brooding drummer, and Charm, a sweet, shy tutor—who team up for a revenge plot against their shared crush, the story quickly shifts into a heartfelt exploration of identity, family, and unexpected love. With witty banter, fleshed-out characters, and joyful LGBTQ+ representation, this book delivers a near-flawless blend of fun and feels that fans of To All the Boys and Heartstopper will adore.

This story!!! Ahhhhhh what a darling lesbian romance. God Beau and Charm were perfect in their imperfectness. YA romance books normally aren't my thing, but something attracted me to this book and my gut feeling was right~

First off, the dual POV was such a great addition. Because our 2 main characters are in different places, this really helped give us an insight into both of the girls and kept the plot and characterization interesting. The we saw so much of Charm and Beau also saw a lot of the family dynamics, but I don't feel like Beau opened up as much. There were things touched on, but not expanded like the dynamic with her mom and her sister. Charm didn't see much of that, but that is also part of Beau's closed offness.

The revenge plot is also something I feel that can be overdone and the way it was done here was over the top but in a way that makes sense for teenage girls lol. I am glad an adult later pointed out that the plan was not needed lmao But if I was a bitter, heartbroken teenage girl I might have also thought of this.

Overall, I teared up at the end. It definitely feels like these two would make it later in life which is something I do judge when reading a romance book lol

Thank you Simon & Schuster Books and netgalley for giving me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you, NetGalley and the publisher for this arc!!!!!


GUYSSSS i ate this up and I knew it would. It scratches a specific itch. Anyways, so epilogue????????

This book follows Beau and Charm as they were led on by a popular girl, Maia. Beau comes up with the plan to break Maia's heart like she did to herself and Charm. Charm is a little skeptical at first, but joins. I really enjoy the development of my main characters. It was so nice to see Beau finally come face to face and explain why she kept entertaining straight girls. I love how Charm was more outgoing, and I just love her point of view. I really need a copy of this book. I just finished the book, and I kinda want to reread it.

John Tucker Must Die vibes in a YA sapphic romance — intriguing, no?

This is a cute story about two girls who team up to get revenge on a third girl who treated them poorly. As they start scheming, they, of course, start falling for each other instead.

Charm is the star in this story. She’s so funny and adorable, and I wish the book was solely from her POV! I found Beau to be fairly unlikable. I do think the book felt long and flat in many places, which kept me from wanting keep flipping the pages. Also, why do all the characters have one syllable names including Enzo and Ezra who have feelings for each other?! I couldn’t remember who was who lol.

For educators: this book is mostly clean in terms of what the characters are doing but there are many sexual references

I absolutely loved everything about this! Beau and Charm spend the novel trying to get revenge on a girl they both have a crush on, and eventually grow closer as the book progresses. There are so many things I loved about this book: the growing relationship between Beau and Charm, their friendships with Ezra, the exploration of identity and sexuality, and the familial relationships. I miss these characters already!

I would absolutely recommend this one. A new favorite of mine for sure, and I can guarantee that many readers will think the same once this is released. Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced copy!

Two high school seniors, Charm and Beau, have both been flirted with and ghosted by the same closeted girl, Maia. When the two cross paths, they agree on a revenge plot in which Charm will pursue Maia, ask her to prom, and then dump her. The book title refers to Charm and Beau's frustration that Maia has a very public relationship with her jock boyfriend while she's carrying on with girls.

This is one of those books that was too long for me. It felt like there was too much interior thinking on both MCs' behalf, some of which felt a bit too sophisticated for characters who could have resolved this situation very easily.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

This was such a cute romcom about these two high school girls who are trying to exact their revenge on a girl that kisses them in private while still being with her boyfriend. They even come up with a whole contract to help one of them exact the revenge to include rules like not falling in love. It was so cute

4 stars

Aaaw. Young, queer love!

This is a charming YA romance, which is no surprise, as it is penned by two authors who are well known for their audience-specific contributions. While I've been a fan of Woodfolk's for some time, Cole has been stranded on my TBR (not intentionally; it just worked out that way). I'm thrilled (and not surprised) to note that this author was worth the wait.

Beau and Charm are 2/3s of a potential love triangle, and they are determined to work together to find out WHAT is going on with the final 1/3 and maybe terrorize her just a touch in the process. We all know this mutual effort is going to likely lead to one magical place. The first 2/3 will ultimately make a whole. Whether or not that happens - and if it does HOW - is for you to read!

These characters are charming (yes, that's intentional!), and I really enjoyed the way their relationship evolves. I also loved the relationships they had with friends and family. There's some good modeling here on that front that I suspect many targeted readers will appreciate.

I'd love to see ANY of the characters in this universe again, and even more than that, I hope to see another joint effort from these authors. This is one I'll be recommending to students and remembering fondly myself!

To be published July 1, 2025.

This was a cute, teenage read with a group of friends navigating new feelings, their own identities, relationships with family and with each other and offered a full cast of queer and non confirming characters. I was rooting for some and wishing demise for others throughout and while it felt a little predictable, it was a really enjoyable read.

Thanks Netgalley for the ARC!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an e-ARC of this book!

3.5 stars, rounded up.

Call Your Boyfriend is a story of revenge, and ultimately friendship and love. Maia has an on-again, off-again boyfriend, but is also flirting and more with Charm and Beau. Once the two girls on the side discover that they share Maia in common, they plot revenge. This was a funny and cute romance. I enjoyed seeing. both of the girls' POVs and I think it has great LGBTQ+ representation as well as multiple family dynamics. I did wish for al little more at the end so we could see Charm and Beau enjoy their happy ever after as they worked really hard for it! As a teacher, I would caution other educators to know your readers a little bit with this one. It does have quite a bit of sexual and suggestive references so if you know a student would not be comfortable with that, this is maybe not the book for them.

Thank you Simon & Schuster Children’s and Netgalley for providing me with an eARC of this one. All thoughts are my own.

I wanted to love this more than I did. It started strong and the characters were likeable and it was definitely not a bad book. It just fell a little flat for me. I feel like I’ve read these themes, these characters, these situations so many times but done a little better.

Beau is used to straight girls using her as an experiment and then ditching her. She's fed up with popular girl Maia doing what's been done to her many times before, so she goes to a party with the underwear Maia gave her to tell her that it's over. When she's there, she walks in on her nearly kissing another girl, Charm.

Charm has been tutoring Maia in trigonometry and has a feeling that Maia is falling for her, so she goes to the party with the intent to figure things out with her. Unfortunately, after Beau walks in on her and Maia together, Maia flees. Later, she and Beau see her kissing her on-again homophobic boyfriend, and decide to plot revenge: Beau will teach Charm her seduction techniques so that she can teach Charm how to get Maia to fall for her, and then once she's done with her boyfriend for good, Charm will break her heart. Unfortunately, their mutual rule they made as a part of their plan of not falling for each other seems to be a bit difficult to follow.

I really enjoyed this revenge-turned-rom-com. I would agree with other reviewers that it feels like a gayer Do Revenge — it even uses the phrase "do revenge" at one point in the book. If you've watched that movie all the way through and are worried about the more toxic element of the relationship between the two female leads, though, don't worry, there's no situation in this book where one of the girls drives a car into the other on purpose. There is only trashcan manslaughter. The novel is sweet in the end, and even the flaky popular girl is surprisingly sympathetic. All of the characters feel well-rounded, which is surprising for a rom-com like this with a "designated villain".

I also am tired of books that promise revenge arcs but then have the characters unrealistically become obsessed with being perfect moral paragons in the name of "character development", so it was a relief that that didn't happen in this book. Beau, Charm and Maia were all allowed to be messy and imperfect, and there was still character development, but realistic character development. I honestly would've loved to have a chapter from Maia's POV as well, but the book was still great without it.

It was really great to see families represented in this book that weren't the typical nuclear family, with Beau's sister and Charm's aunt being more maternal to the girls than their biological mothers were. The families in this book were also allowed to be messy without being tropey, which I appreciated. Beau and Charm also have ambitions beyond just revenge, which helped them feel like fuller characters. The book also had great (in my opinion) representation of what it's like to be a person of color at a mostly-White high school, since Charm is Black and Maia is mixed.

The book was definitely more sexual than a lot of other YA in terms of the amount of sexual references, which makes sense since they're in their senior year of high school. I'd categorize this as upper YA, and if you're bothered by teens talking a lot about sex, this would not be the book for you.

I'm looking forward to reading more books by these authors!

Thank you NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for this ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts.

I liked the cover and the title. The book had a good beginning. I had some laughs and quotable moments. The characters were cute as their inner monologue went on about the other person. As well as relatable queer/lgbt representation. However, along the way things felt flat. To the point the story seemed to last longer than it should have.

Wishing the authors much success.

Thank you NetGalley and Simon and Schuster Children’s Publishing for this ARC! This story is Do Revenge but even more queer if that was possible. Although the camp was turned down the story was great. I was so compelled about what brought Charm and Beau together. Charm reminded me of how important it is to be yourself because even with Beau’s lessons she never did anything that wasn’t her. Beau reminded me that you can’t leave everything lent up but you have to let it out. Them together taught me it’s okay to fall. I love that two of them are reminders of precious and how exciting yet scary first love is. However, I am a little upset that we got an ending to their story together, but some kind of resolution of their individual stories. I guess that’s life, but sometimes I wanted a few more issues tied up with a bow. Overall, this story left me wanting more, not because it needs conclusion, but purely because I fell in love with these characters

Thank you to NetGalley, Simon & Schuster Publishing and authors Olivia A. Cole and Ashley Woodfolk for providing me with the eARC of “Call your boyfriend” in exchange for my honest review.
Publication date: July 1st, 2025
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I wish it was possible to rate this higher than 5 stars. This very well may have been my favorite book of the year, and quite possibly my favorite book of all time.
I am officially SO desperate to own a physical copy of this, and I am so excited for its official release date so that everyone can read it.

This was such an exciting, fun, interesting and heart-felt young adult sapphic romance. I finished it in under 24 hours and I will be thinking about it…forever.

I love the character Charm, I love the character Beau, and more than anything I love them together! I was rooting for them throughout the entire story and found myself so anxious for them to both get their happy ending, especially after the pain that they both experienced at the hands of the same girl.

I would absolutely LOVE for there to be a second part to this book! It would be amazing if we could see their relationship develop and learn how they navigate life after graduation and if/how they follow their dreams.

This book has:
- Revenge trope
- slow-burn romance
- LGBTQ+ representation
- African American/biracial representation

I honestly think that this story is something a wide array of readers could enjoy!