Name: Holly's review of The Matchbreaker Summer by Annie Rains
Item: The Matchbreaker Summer
Rating: 2
Author: Holly

Annie Rains

A pitch-perfect summer camp rom-com about two teens with nothing in common who come together to help break up a romance and unexpectedly start one of their own Sixteen-year-old Paisley Manning has been attending Camp Seabrook since she was a little girl, when her parents ran it together. For the last few years, since her father's death, she's been the one helping her mom run the camp behind the scenes. This year, however, will be Camp Seabrook's last hurrah because Paisley's mom has met a guy online and they're getting married. Enter Hayden Bennett, who is working alongside Paisley. Paisley and Hayden are like oil and water. She follows the rules, and he seems to live to break them all. But when Hayden catches wind of Paisley's predicament, he has an idea. If a matchmaker in some computer algorithm caused the issue, a couple of real-life matchbreakers can fix it. As they work to break up the happy couple, Paisley discovers that maybe Hayden's not so bad after all. Has she met her own perfect match in her fellow matchbreaker? Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror paperback original titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Enjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it.

The Matchbreaker Summer

Genesis (@whisperingchapters)

Everyone in this book acts at LEAST 3 years younger than their age. And I don't say this to sound like the ever cynical adult-reading-ya. but this was a mess. It would've been better suited as a middle grade (with a little less emphasis on romance) because a lot of the feelings Paisley is having are normal, but she went straight to reverse parent-trap instead of handling it more appropriately of a sixteen year old. 

Holly

Paige Green

Disclaimer: I received this e-arc from the publisher. Thanks! All opinions are my own.

Book: The Matchbreaker Summer

Author: Annie Rains

Book Series: Standalone

Rating: 3/5

Recommended For...: young adult readers, middle grade readers, contemporary, romance, camp, summer camp

Publication Date: April 5, 2022

Genre: YA Contemporary Romance

Age Relevance: 12+ (parental death, romance, grief)

Explanation of Above: The book discusses a parental death and the grief following that. There is also small bits of romance here and there, but nothing beyond crushes and slight kissing.

Publisher: Underlined

Pages: 304

Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Paisley Manning has been attending Camp Seabrook since she was a little girl, when her parents ran it together. For the last few years, since her father’s death, she’s been the one helping her mom run the camp behind the scenes. This year, however, will be Camp Seabrook’s last hurrah because Paisley’s mom has met a guy online and they’re getting married.

Enter Hayden Bennett, who is working alongside Paisley. Paisley and Hayden are like oil and water. She follows the rules, and he seems to live to break them all. But when Hayden catches wind of Paisley's predicament, he has an idea. If a matchmaker in some computer algorithm caused the issue, a couple of real-life matchbreakers can fix it.

As they work to break up the happy couple, Paisley discovers that maybe Hayden's not so bad after all. Has she met her own perfect match in her fellow matchbreaker?

Review: For the most part this was an ok book. The book had a great premise with relatable characters. The characters were fairly well developed and the world building was pretty good. The romance was enemies to lovers and the romance was fairly cute for the most part.

However, I did have a few issues with this book. The book’s main characters are 16 but the book reads like a middle grade novel. That’s not necessarily bad and a lot of younger/pre-teen teens need books but it was just kinda an odd choice. The books characters weren’t that well developed and I would have liked to see that more. I also thought the pacing of the book was too fast and the manner of which the romance moved was also too fast.

Verdict: It was ok.


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