Name: Two-way Street
ISBN: 9781416913184

Lauren Barnholdt

Two-way Street

Haylie

I dug it, it got a little predictable though.

Samantha LaBrie

Super quick read and read it in a day! Nothing special but I liked it enough

Audrey

Kaley Catron

Honestly I don’t know how I felt about that 😂 it was a cute quick read but honestly it was kind of a rollercoaster. And it kind of ended a little more abruptly than I’d expected after you know...a whole road trip?

Viry

First of all, I decided to stop reading this book fairly quickly and for various reasons and I'm not sure how to effectively write them down therefore I'm going to make a list:

- There is so much slut shaming and girl hate.
- The plot was cookie cut & predictable 
- The main characters were being extremely insensitive when discussing dwarfism
- Main character (male) tells us his trick to seducing women is to "play into their egos enough to keep them around"
- And what solidified my officially DNFing of this book is when the MC (female) goes to a party and is sexually harassed and when she says "Stop!" the character continued to harass her.

That's only 20% in but I refuse to read any more if this is what I can expect..

Destiny J Tamayo

***3.5*** it was ok but I expected it to be a little more about the actual road trip not so much on the past and their relationship but overall it was ok.

I enjoyed this book. I liked the alternating perspectives, as well as the flipping back and forth between past and present. Sounds potentially confusing, but I liked how it was done. It was easy to follow. 

I'm a sucker for road trip books. I can't help myself. Especially when there's a level of weird awkwardness or history between the participants in said road trip.

Lisa ✩ @lifeinlit

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Audiobook Review:

This just happens to be my very favorite type of audiobook - a YA contemporary story with a light, fun romance aspect. I've definitely been on a YA contemp kick lately, especially when it comes to audios. I simply adore them. So light, fluffy, silly, romantic and fun. It's exactly what I need while on the road.

The whole premise of this story was right up my alley! Courtney and Jordan, high school sweethearts, happy as can be. They end up getting into the same college and plan to drive together for orientation. Right before the trip, Jordan breaks up with Courtney for a girl he met on the Internet. Poor Courtney. She doesn't want to go on the trip anymore, begging her parents for a flight instead... but her parents insist that she already agreed to go, and therefore she needs to follow through with her commitments. Seriously?! Poor Courtney .. I can almost feel her pain...

Two-Way Street was fabulous. With the flip-flop between Courtney and Jordan, it really helped see the whole picture. It was awesome getting to hear both sides, especially when they were dealing with their friends. Aside from Courtney being absolutely adorable and lovable from the start, she was also childish, naive, insecure and over-analyzed almost every aspect of her life. This quirk of hers made several scenes in the story laugh-out-loud funny! Jordan was equally fun-loving and adorable himself, struggling with issues of his own, including the fact that he was still in love with Courtney. 

It was really refreshing to read such a realistic story. And the narrator... oh my gosh! She was perfect! She totally rocked Courtney. She talked and acted exactly how I pictured her. My only complaint was the narrator's lack of voice change when she was reading for Jordan. I got confused a couple times, forgetting that it was Jordan talking and not Courtney. But I was so in love with her as Courtney that I was able to overlook this and enjoy the story regardless.

I would absolutely recommend Two-Way Street to readers who enjoyed Amy & Roger's Epic Detour and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. If you're an audio reader, definitely try this one. I thought the narrator added a lot to it, making Courtney so lifelike it was impossible not to love.

Kate

2.75 stars. I didn't love this book, I didn't hate it but I just felt there wasn't much to it. I didn't warm to the characters at all really and the storyline felt a bit bland but I did enjoy the way it was written from the two characters points of view and in both the past and present.