
The Key to You and Me
Reviews

everyone was really annoying

A very fun and cute YA book. I know nothing about horses, so it was also nice to get a little education about that world as well. I liked the changing POVs, but it was a bit confusing at times.

This is my first Jaye Robin Brown book, and I'm looking forward to exploring her backlist. She does a great job at capturing both main characters, although I found their voices in the alternating chapters a little bit hard to distinguish between at times. Piper has Olympic hopes as a dressage rider, but is also recovering from a difficult breakup -- and she's trying to make progress on both those fronts while living with her grandmother and training and working for a former Olympian. Kat is beginning to confront her sense that she likes girls, but uncertain about coming out -- and she needs to earn some summer cash, so it's convenient when Piper's grandmother hires her to teach Piper to drive, right? But what else can Piper and Kat learn from each other? There's a lot going on in this book; all of it good, but some of it, I wish had been explored further -- the supporting characters and relationships could shine -- but they don't really get the space to breathe the way that they could, I think. And I would have actually welcomed more stuff about horses and dressage training. But that said, this is still a solidly great book, and we need more F/F YA, and also, books that are as frank as this one is in narrating characters thinking about their sexuality and sexual experience.

This was such a sweet read. I really enjoyed the banter between Piper and Kat, and the relationships, especially the family ones, between Kat and Emma and Elliot. I liked that this was a coming out story, but also not, as it wasn't just one POV. I liked that no one was homophobic! It was so refreshing to read. All in all, a very sweet and cute queer romance.







