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strictly literary: four days of you and me by miranda kenneally

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so i loved the hundred oak series, contemporary romance with a side of sports, are totally my thing. i honestly don't know why, because i am the least sporty person ever. i think it's because the stakes with sports are so clear and the conflict really tends to work for me.

four days of you and me is a much different concept from her earlier work. this isn't bad, it's just different. and while miranda is usually an auto-buy for me, i had some hesitation based on the premise because if there is something anyone should know about me is that i am not a big fan of flashbacks.

and so we follow alex and lulu's on-again, off-again relationship over the course of four years, set on during an annual field trip. the conceit is great. it's just that this kind of conceit is so not my jam. i am rarely interested in what characters did in the past, i want to know the here and now and what it means for the future. and that's the other thing...where things end...it's not that satisfying?

there's a lot of build-up with little reward? i don't know. i know these are teenagers and life is obviously still uncertain. but it just felt like a lot of investment for not enough return.

**four days of you and me will publish on may 5, 2020. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/sourcebooks fire in exchange for my honest review. 
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