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Starry Eyes
Jenn Bennett 421 pages | Published by Simon Pulse
Zorie takes off on a camping trip with some friends - one of whom turns out to be her ex-best friend Lennon. They've been avoiding each other since they tried dating in secret last year and he ditched her. But there's no getting away from one another once they're stranded out in the wilderness together, forced to talk about what happened between them.
I read a few camping-gone-wrong books in the last year that got considerably darker than this, and I'm this book didn't go there. I didn't need a major injury or raging wildfire or leaving someone for dead. I wanted a happy ending and this gave it to me.
I loved the hate-to-love / best friends aspects of the story - Lennon really grew on me. Love an emo boy. The pattern that I've noticed (and by pattern I mean in the two Bennett books I've read) is that her MCs are very.... prissy. To the point of condescension. They're kind of hard for me to get behind.
A big plotline in this book was a secret that Zorie discovers about her parents. I loved the way that this storyline ended - major girls run the world vibes.
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