In a perfect world, sixteen-year-old Phoebe Martins’ life would be a book. Preferably a YA novel with magic and a hot paranormal love interest. Unfortunately, her life probably wouldn’t even qualify for a quiet contemporary.

Fun for the fan girl who likes fluff and knitting and reading and badass female characters in books. Predictable, but enjoyable.

This has been a cute and very nice story. I liked the characters, who have been relatable. It´s a book for people who love books. I´m a bookworm also and could relate to Phoebe´s feelings. The story was cute and nice and fun to read. I liked it.

Such a cute book! I am so thankful the publisher allowed me to review this one. Excited for rest of the series

This is so sickly sweet! I recommend this for people who love the bookish life of Nina Hill and While you were reading but YA !!!! And it’s a series. What more could you ask for?

The blurb of the story was so good and I was so interested in reading it. But sadly, it tuned out to be a flat read :(
Phoebe is a book lover, particularly a romance book lover and takes flirting advice from the books. The story revolves around her crush on her friend Dev but it was stretched too much?? They'd flirt a bit, then flirt a bit more and that went on for ever and after a while, it was irritating.
The ending was what saved this book but it felt too long.

I really really wish I could've read this before it got archived but I didn't get the change to download it again. I hope to read it still, because I loved the beginning

Solid 3 out of 5 stars from me. I thought this was cute but the story was meandering. The beginning of it had this drive to it and I really wanted to see where it went. Not to mention, I'm biased and as soon as a clarinet is mentioned I perk up. (I'm a clarinetist.) However, after a little into the book the story lost some of the momentum for me. Partly, it lost momentum because, though I felt the characters were more "real" than other contemporary characters I've encountered, the situations they were put into were less so. Case in point: taking a nerdy girl, putting her through a makeover, and tah-dah! Hot and popular, she is! But let's be real. That kind of story line was overdone in the '80s and '90s, so this book is 2019 overkill unfortunately.

This is such an adorable book! I really loved Phoebe, I identified a lot with her. I loved that she was into knitting, and her tendency to shut out the world through reading felt familiar with me. I really enjoyed reading this book and I'm very curious about the sequel.

This is a great pick-me up, easy to read story. The protagonist was (unsurprisingly) super relatable and the romance was really cute and adorable. My one irk would probably be that it was a little too predictable but I had a lot of fun reading this and had a smile on my face through the whole thing.

I enjoyed the first half of the book but started to lose interest in the second half. It was riddled with cliches. I loved the idea of the book, the execution was just a bit off.

I started to read this book a long long time ago, and my apologies for not sending feedback sooner. Sadly it wasn't for me. I've just realised I didn't submit feedback but it was a DNF for me after a few chapters.

A bookish teen uses her book characters to gain romance advice as she's interested in Dev, the outgoing clarinet player in the band. With her best friend by her side, what could possibly go wrong?

It wasn't bad, but I probably shouldn't have requested it since I know I don't enjoy Contemporaries. This book didn't do anything wrong, but I found it rather predictable and boring. Don't get me wrong, I know plenty of people who will love this book (I will even recommend it to people), I'm just not one of those people. I do think the author did an incredible job writing it, I just wish I could've enjoyed it more.

What's not to love in a YA book that features the love of books. Like living in a dream.

This is like a mixture of Anna and the French Kiss and Fangirl. Absolutely adorable. It didn't need any huge sad life events, it's all about a book and knitting nerd falling in love for the first time. A girl who dreams of love like she reads about in her books. We all have our book boyfriends that we can not live without, those boys we wish were real, no matter if they are vampires, werewolves or any other mythical creature. But real boys are very different and will her books be able to help her when she has her first real crush?

I thought this book was really cute, and I think it's a perfect read for YA. Recommended for 13+ age group.

I only got part way through this book as I think it was too young for me. I can imagine in my teenage years I would have loved it

A YA romance is what I relate to this book. It had a good flow and process of thought. Although I did read a similar plot at the same time, about the main character being a book fanatic. It introduced me to fan-fiction. I would love to write a fanfiction for my favorite fiction work.

First of all, let me praise this cover! It’s one of the most beautiful book covers I have seen lately, and what’s even better, it’s sequel’s cover is even more beautiful.

And now when we got all that beauty out of the way (sorry, I just woke up and I can’t think of any better phrase to express myself), let’s focus on what’s really important: the story itself.

If you already read the book, you might ask me: “What story?”. Yes, I know what you mean, because that’s what I asked myself more then few times while reading.
And the answer is: this one, at first fun, one dimensional story that dragged and dragged even though nothing important really happened, and made me lose my interest after the fist half of the book.
Honestly, it felt like I was reading a 700 pages long book, not a 378 pages one.

As I already said, the story is one dimensional. We follow Phoebe and her friends, read about their conversations which lack of significance, and there is no subplots.
It was like waiting for Godot in a shape of plot.
Guess what? Godot never came, or maybe he came after I fell asleep.

To be fair, I liked Phoebe. I enjoyed reading her comparing her life with life of her favorite characters, and how she asked herself what would her favorite characters do in certain situations.
I only wish that her favorite characters and books weren’t non-existent. I have never heard of those books or characters, and I feel like if familiar books and characters were part of the story, readers would enjoy this book more.

This book started really good, it got me in and I was having fun reading about Phoebe and her high-school drama, but somewhere on the way, I lost my interest and to be honest, I just skimmed the second half of the novel.
I found myself realizing that I didn’t care anymore, and if I wasn’t given this book for a review, I would probably DNF it.

However, I want to stress out that some of my goodreads friends really enjoyed this story, so if you were thinking about giving this book a chance, please do.
Maybe you will end up really enjoying it.

I usually love ya contemporary, but I guess this book just wasn’t for me.