Title: Just Friends
Author: Tiffany PitcockPublication Date: August 1st 2017
Publisher: Swoon Reads // Macmillan
Part of a Series?: No, A Standalone
I Got A Copy Through: Macmillan Intl (THANK YOU!)
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Blurb Description: A new spin on the classic smart-girl-and-bad-boy setup, this witty contemporary romance shows how easily a friendship – even one built on an elaborate lie – can become so much more.
Jenny meets Chance for the very first time when she is assigned as his partner in their Junior Oral Communications class. But after they rescue a doomed assignment with one clever lie, the whole school is suddenly convinced that Little-Miss-Really-Likes-Having-A’s and the most scandalous heartbreaker in school have been best friends forever. It’s amazing how quickly a lie can grow―especially when you really, really want it to be the truth.
With Jenny, Chance can live the normal life he’s always kind of wanted. And with Chance, Jenny can have the exciting teen experiences that TV shows and movies have always promised. Through it all, they hold on to the fact that they are “just friends.” But that might be the biggest lie of all.
Debut author Tiffany Pitcock delivers a spot-on depiction of first love and the high school rumor mill in Just Friends, chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads.
If you don’t already know, Best Friend romances are one of
my FAVOURITE Young Adult tropes out there. Or one of my favourite movie/ book/
TV show tropes period.
And so, when I saw the gorgeous cover for Tiffany Pitcock’s
debut novel and the title that alluded to this book containing my favourite
trope, I KNEW that Just Friends was
a book I would definitely read. Then, the lovely humans at Macmillan
International approved my request and I was absolutely over the moon.
My Thoughts:
1.
In a
nutshell, this book took a little while to get used to. It’s told in
Third Person and it switched between the boy (Chance) and the girl (Jenny) and
it seems very CHILDISH. Third person doesn’t usually strike me as odd, but
something about “Jenny just couldn’t
stand it,” and “Chance always screwed
everything up,” made the writing slightly strange.
2. After
a quarter of the book, I stopped noticing the third person dialogue that much
and begin enjoying the book. Jenny and
Chance had this way of getting along with one another like they truly had been
friends since they were little and I did like most of the dialogue between
them.
3. Something that annoyed me slightly was the LACK OF ANYTHING PARENTAL. And I mean
ANYTHING. Chance’s parents were ALWAYS fighting even though we don’t see
them once and don’t hear even a
SINGLE ARGUMENT. And Jenny’s mom who was supposed to be around wasn’t ever
since she started dating and Jenny and Chance were ALONE ALL THE TIME? I’ve
never believed how parents conveniently disappear for the plot to advance
because THAT DOESN’T HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE.
4.
Jenny
was a CRAP best friend to her “only friend before Chance” in the book – Kesley.
They’d been friends since middle school, but Jenny was this
self-absorbed little wretch that she dropped her friend AS SOON AS Chance paid
the slightest bit of attention to her. I felt even worse when we actually HEAR
from Kesley about how she thought she was a “big joke” to Jenny and well, BEING
HORRIBLE TO YOUR BEST FRIEND IS NOT COOL.
5. I pretty much feel like this book had
quite a good underlying story, but it was so focused on the ROMANCE it forgot
the other EQUALLY important parts like Friendship and Family.
I liked the book but not THAT much. It was a good debut
which could have been better. 3 stars. #RespectYourFriends.
Tiffany Pitcock is a young writer from Benton, Ar. She studied English at Henderson State University, but has been writing stories for as long as she can remember. Besides reading, she is a fan of cats, staying indoors, and tv dramas. You can find Tiffany on Twitter
What are some of your Favourite YA Tropes, and which are the ones you hate?
Are you still in touch with your best friends from High School? Were the friends you made in school better, or the ones in college?
Have you had a chance to read Just Friends? What did you think of it?
I can't wait to hear from all of you lovelies!
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