Review: What Are Friends For?

What Are Friends For? by Sarah Sutton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Note: I received an ARC generously from the author in exchange for an honest review.

So to summarize y'all, it's basically a closet game gone wrong. But the good kind of wrong.

The cover - Is quirky and hints at the what story may be.

The summary - A close, easygoing friendship can all change with just one kiss. Seventeen-year-old Remi Beaufort learns this the hard way when she plays a blindfolded kissing game at a party.

She thinks she's kissing Jeremy, the totally hot basketball player she's been crushing on. And the kiss...it's amazing. Heart-stopping, world-changing, toe-curling. The kiss makes her forget about her overbearing mother, the next-door neighbor's drama, and the probability that she'll fail her senior year. The best kiss of her life makes all that fall away.

Until her blindfold falls off, and she realizes that instead of kissing her crush, she's kissing Elijah, her best friend since third grade.

Though she manages to convince Elijah that he was kissing his girlfriend, Remi can't get the thought of his lips on hers out of her head. As things between them grow more and more complicated--because it turns out her fantasizing about his mouth is more of a problem than it sounds--Remi has to make a choice: does she live the rest of her life loving her best friend in secret? Or does she tell the truth and risk ruining their friendship forever?

Cute no? I definitely thought it was.

The chemistry and easy going friendship plus the writing style -All pretty solid.

The not so good qualities though are - The characters constant whining once they realize they have chemistry (or at least one of them realizes it) aka teenage drama. The good guys being turned into villains aka her crush becoming suddenly "unsuitable" as he does not compare to her other "kissed" crush, blah, blah, blah. And the female character forgiving someone for screwing up her marks and possibly getting her kicked out of school.

Otherwise it was a decent novel. Nothing great, nothing bad.

Until the next read,

TMR

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