Family secrets! Summer camp! Friendships! Young love! LGBTQ+ representation! Instagram influencers! This book has it all – it sounds like a lot, but for You Have a Match, it works.

Going into this story, I had already read Emma Lord’s first book, Tweet Cute, and really enjoyed it. Reese Witherspoon chose this book as her Young Adult pick for her book club, so I was going into this with very high expectations, especially as I also enjoy summer camp style books. Thankfully, my expectations were met! I could not put this book down, and finished it in a 24-hour period. If I wasn’t a mom to super young ones, I probably would have read this in one sitting.

This time around, we meet Abby Day – a junior in high school who is juggling slipping grades, a secret crush on her best friend, a growing distance with her other best friend, and a secret passion for photography that she’s too scared to share. Her family has their own set of secrets, as she finds out by doing a 23andMe genetic testing to help her secret crush, Leo, do one. Imagine her surprise when it comes back declaring that she has a biological sister, and that sister, who just so happens to be a popular Instagram star Savannah Tully, reaches out to her, asking to get together. Savannah convinces Abby to join her at summer camp so that they can figure out what is going on between their parents. Surprise! Her crush, Leo, was at the same camp!

There were a lot of moving pieces to this book, and many areas of Abby’s life that felt like they were falling apart. Emma Lord has a way of writing that keeps all of those pieces moving, while we also learn about secondary characters as well. My favorite thing about this book was how well Lord made me feel for characters – of course I was rooting for Abby, but I also was rooting for Finn, and Mickey. When reading about what secrets the parents were fighting, I could feel the emotions to the point where I thought to myself “I want to write like that.” Even better was seeing how each and every character grew throughout the story.

I highly recommend this one for young adult fans! The characters in the story were around 16-18 years old (besides the parents, of course), and the most action was kissing or hugging. Give it a try, and let us know what you thought about it!

You Have a Match is out now!