2018 Contemporary Romance Challenge
ARC Review: Love Between Enemies (Grad Night #2) by Molly E. Lee
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Series: Grad Night #2
Author: Molly E. Lee
Published January 8th 2018 by Entangled: Crush
Goodreads Synopsis
Zoey Handler is ready to put an end to her decade-long rivalry with Gordon Meyers. They’ve traded top spot between valedictorian and salutatorian for years, but all that’s over now. Right? But after a crazy graduation speech prank gets out of hand, suddenly their rivalry turns into all-out war. Time to make peace with a little friendly payback.
Step one? Make him believe they’re now friends.
Step two? Show him the time of his life at an epic graduation party.
Step three? Don’t fall for his tricks.
Step four? Absolutely, positively, do not kiss him again.
So what if he’s cute? (Okay, hot.) So what if he’s charming? (Heaven help her, tempting.) So what if he apologizes? (That has to be fake.) She knows the real Gordon. And no matter how much her heart begs her to stop, there’s no turning back.
Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book contains one epic party, complete with every high-schoolers-gone-bad shenanigan, and two rivals who discover maybe they could be something much more…if only they’d stop fighting long enough to notice it.
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Review
I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher. This in no way impacted on my view.
Immediately after finishing Love in the Friend Zone, I started this book. Again, set at the same high school graduation party as in book 1, this time we follow Gordon and Zoey, who have been competing for all the awards and accolades in school their entire careers - including for the valedictorian spot. It soon becomes apparant that the scholarship that Gordon actually needs to go to college with has been won by Zoey, who he thought hadn't applied as she didn't actually need the scholarship for college. So, during the graduation ceremony, he plays a prank on her that backfires, and leads Zoey to want to punish him at the party. By pretending to be into him, and then breaking his heart, she thinks she has a solid plan, but she soon finds out who the real Gordon is, and wants to stop the plan, but it's too late.
I definitely preferred this book to book 1, though still some aspects of it did annoy me. Zoey was a tough character to understand, or even like, but Gordon was sweet and definitely a good character for this kind of book. I think because of how alike, and at the same time, how different the two were, it made their romance more believable that Fynn and Braylen's, but it was still very fast - again everything took place over a day. Even so, I liked it - it was nice, fast, and enjoyable, and just what I needed in the post Christmas slump that is January.
Dates Read:
January 1-3, 2018Rating
4 Stars
