Name: Match Me If You Can
ISBN: 9781250168719

Tiana Smith

Mia's best friend Robyn is known for her matchmaking skills, which is perfect, because homecoming is just around the corner. But Robyn refuses to set Mia up with the guy of her dreams, which forces Mia to take matters into her own hands. She uses Robyn's matchmaking service to make sure popular Vince Demetrius falls for her. Vince asks her out, but Mia doesn't count on Logan, the persistent school newspaper photographer who seems to like her out of the blue. Now she has to choose between Vince - the guy she knows is right for her - and Logan, who insists that she give him a chance. And she needs to make sure Robyn doesn't find out that Mia's been matchmaking behind her back. Mia has two weeks before homecoming. Can she fix the mess she made or will she have to kiss her perfect match goodbye forever?

Match Me If You Can

Candyce Kirk

3.5 stars

Mia has it all planned out, her best friend Robyn needs to set her up with her crush Vince. It's clear that they're a match. According to Mia, they have the same drive and have plans to make it. She won't take no for an answer, even when Robyn tells her there are reasons for her matchmaking!

If I'm really honest, Mia annoyed me in the beginning. She was very focused on superficial things. Vince was great because he looked good, played sports and cared about school. Those are the only things that really matter to her. I thought she was rather selfish to take matters in her own hands behind her best friend's back.

Other than that, this was such a fast and fun read! There are a lof of moments filled with humor, typical teenage drama and embarassing things that anyone can relate to! Logan was my favorite character. He was so down to earth and really himself (it felt that way anyways) and just felt really sincere.

Even though once Logan enters the picture, it's pretty clear how this story is going to end! While I don't mind a good contemporary being predictable, the ending was just a bit too obvious really early on in the book! Her best friend Robyn was also a lot of fun, getting Mia back in her own way! I would've liked to have seen more of her and her matchmaking during this story.

I also loved the parts of Mia being interested in the newspaper and journalism! I kind of wish getting more of that, including Logan who took photographs. Mia was just a little too focused on her romantic life. I know, teenagers can be that way, but in a book it's nice to get more of an idea of their lives.

All in all, I loved how everything turned out and how much Mia learns about herself. I think in many ways she was just afraid to let herself feel and maybe not know how things will end. Match Me if You Can is filled with learning about what you want, friendships and that love can come from places you least expect!

Alexis 

3/5 Stars 

There were aspects of this book that I really liked, The romance could've been better but it was also a very short book. It was enjoyable enough. My major issue is with the friendship in this book. I know it wasn't the point of the book, but the fact that we have a friend who is mad at another friend for something that they never said anything about just irks me to no end.

Milana Marie Waller

1.5 stars
*tsk tsk* -sighs-
WhErE dO i EvEN sTaRt?
Inside the pages of this book contained some of the most LIFELESS, UNREALISTIC, STATIC group of characters I have ever read about. Mia, the main character, is a delusional, dimwitted, annoying character that does nothing but nag and frustrate the reader and characters around her throughout the entire story. Elena is a rude b!@%(h that how no grasp on common sense and constantly creates unnecessary drama. Like when she pulled the fire alarm. Or threw pudding at Mia? Uhh.... And Robyn! One of the moth apathetic, inaccurately neutral characters to ever be written into existence. The male interests... Vince and Logan? Sure, Logan was likeable. Whatever. He still had zero depth to him. Vince? HA. A complete tool. And the fight they got into? Cuz that made sense. Did anything in the book like up? No, not really. Other than the fact that almost every character was equally hateable and needed to be diagnosed with a mental disease. 

I am a high school students, and I will vouch for other high school students when i tell you... THIS BOOK IS NOTHING LIKE HIGH SCHOOL! If you have ever had the pleasure (and when i say pleasure i really mean hellish and traumatic experience) of going through high school, you know that kids never 
a)start successful match-making businesses that students actually trust and participate in
b) ask a date to homecoming publicly just because said matchmaker suggested so
c) believe that they must have found their soulmate through a fellow student "matchmaker" and put gallons of effort into a HIGH SCHOOL RELATIONSHIP like they're looking for an immediate spouse. I mean. CMON. The majority of high school male to female contact in high school can safely and definitely be labeled a hookup at best. This is not Match.com. I really do not know what high school Tiana Smith attended. I would love to hear about her high school relationships.

This book just consistently irked me, time after time. I thought it would be a cute, easy read, maybe something like Kasie West. To compare this atrocity to Kasie West is a crime.'

I will say... the cover is stunning. But Tiana Smith most likely had no role in that. Also... WTF DID THE COVER HAVE TO DO WITH THE STORY...nothing. Onto A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which i happily purchased today at full price, which is soomething I never do but HAD to do because THE HUNGER GAMES> it better leave this Matchmaker bullcrap in the dust.

Match Me If You Can

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