Imagine having a best friend you've never met. That's the relationship Hannah Cho has with Nick Cooper. When their older siblings met at a rock concert several years ago, sister Grace suggested that Hannah might like to connect with Nick. She did and they have talked or instant messaged daily ever since. She lives in southern California, he lives in Las Vegas. She's been a super studious girl, planning to attend UCLA. Nick is in a rock band. When her spring break trip to a leadership conference Washington DC is unfairly given to another girl, she's angry. Grace who recently broke up with her boyfriend, has an internship with perks. Still feeling guilty because it was her getting trashed that derailed an original road trip to meet Nick a couple years ago, she works a deal with her boss to get a discounted rate at a fancy Vegas hotel and off they go to surprise Nick.
The surprise is on both best friends. Nick isn't what Hannah thought and has kept a few secrets. She's not entirely blameless when she is honest with herself. There was one night where she could have said something different and it has returned to haunt her.
Following them around Las Vegas is quite the adventure and when Hannah most needs to break from her 'perfect daughter' mindset, she finds a way to do so. This is a sweet and adventurous tale about a couple who have to learn the hard way that sometimes there's more to honesty than meets the eye. It's a great choice for school and public libraries where teens like offbeat romances with unexpected twists.
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What a wonderful story!! Great for fans of Anna & the French Kiss
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2016
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I picked up IN REAL LIFE by Jessica Love other than it sounded like a really cute story. After reading the first chapter I was hooked and didn’t want to put this book down. I loved Hannah’s voice and I loved her relationship with her sister Grace and her BFF Lo. Together they were fun and adorable and I wanted to be in the car with them as they road tripped it to Las Vegas. Their relationship isn’t perfect and there where times I wanted to shake Lo and Grace for their behavior, especially towards Hannah, but overall I loved their dynamic because it was real. Friends and siblings aren’t always going to get along and there are times when you are s***ty to each other but that the love that binds them isn’t there. Love does a great job highlighting all these various shades of the friend and sibling relationship.Love also does an amazing job with Hannah. As I said above, I loved her voice. She’s smart and pretty and awkward and all the things that so many people will be able to relate to. She makes a crazy decision to finally meet her BFF Nick, who she might also love, and jumps in whole heartedly even though she isn’t entirely sure what she’ll find at the end. I loved how Grace and Lo supported and encouraged her in this as Hannah was a little too straight-edged at times but that is in part because of her upbringing as a Korean-American and in part because her sister and Lo do enough crazy and they need Hannah to help ground them.IN REAL LIFE is a quick read and one that made my heart ache. Oh how I hated some of the things that happened because I wanted Nick and Hannah to meet and admit that they’d fallen madly in love. But then, if that was the story then it’d be pretty boring and I’d have very differently feelings. Instead, IN REAL LIFE has some secrets and twists and turns and heart ache as these characters all do and say things that makes you want to shake them. As a reader, I became totally invested in this story and felt so many feels. And even though there were times I wanted to shake Nick or Hannah or Lo or Grace I also adored all of these characters. I wanted everyone to find their Happily Ever Afters and I hated for IN REAL LIFE to end. Seriously, I need more words!!For me, IN REAL LIFE is very much like ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS only instead of a boarding school in France there is a road trip and Las Vegas….though each book has the Eiffel Tower so see, the same! lol Hannah and Nick face many of the same obstacles as Anna and Etienne. Hannah and Anna are both girls out of their element and so a little shy and don’t want to take risks for fear of change. But they are both brave and while it takes time they each make a leap in order to take charge of their happiness. I think that Anna and Hannah would be good friends.I picked up IN REAL LIFE expecting a cute story and I got that and so much more. I loved this book and I know that its one that I am going to be re-reading. Its a wonderful story and if you trust me at all then you are going to want to have a copy of it on your shelf.
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2016
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