Never Ever Getting Back Together
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Romance, revenge, and reality TV. The new queer YA rom-com from Sophie Gonzales, bestselling author of Only Mostly Devastated.
Eighteen-year-old Maya dumped her cheating ex-boyfriend Jordy two years ago. So, when she receives a call to participate in Second Chance Romance - a reality show in which the now-famous Jordy re-dates his ex-girlfriends - she isn't interested . . . until she realizes she can use this opportunity to exact her revenge. If she can make it to the final spot on the show, she can reject Jordy in front of the nation, and publicly break his heart.
Maya's fellow contestants include Skye, the beautiful, charismatic girl Jordy cheated on Maya with. Skye charms the socks off everyone she meets, except for Maya, who knows that underneath all the sparkle, she's the girl who dated her boyfriend while he was still her boyfriend.
The reality show is a challenging environment. Amidst backstabbing, bickering, and having to see Jordy again, Maya finds herself becoming friends with Skye. Together, they come up with a plan for the ultimate revenge on Jordy.
But as she spends more time with Jordy and Skye, Maya is torn. Is Jordy a good guy who made a mistake? Is there more than friendship between her and Skye? As the season finale approaches, can Maya execute her plan, or will she go off-script?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Never Ever Getting Back Together is a lot of things. It’s a revenge story and a love story. It’s an amusing skewering of TV dating competitions and a novel that refuses to take easy shots at women who appear on them. It’s a light, fun read with a clear-eyed view of how we should treat each other. And it begins with a tale, as old as time, of teenage romantic humiliation. Maya’s ex-boyfriend—the one who moved away, cheated on her, then started telling people she was crazy—happens also to be famous. Ever since his sister married into European royalty, he’s been the world’s handsome, philanthropic golden boy. Only the world’s got him wrong. When he invites Maya on to a reality show in which he’ll date his exes, it could be her chance to get her own back very publicly. But face to face with the woman he cheated with, sparks fly—and not only in the way she expected. Inventive and astute, Gonzales is a bestseller for good reason.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two years after Maya dumped her cheating ex-boyfriend Jordy, he's suddenly being touted across the news as Europe's most eligible bachelor, following his sister's marriage to a minor European royal. When Maya is invited to be a contestant on Second Chance Romance, a reality dating show that pits celebrity bachelors' ex-girlfriends against each other for a chance to win their ex's heart, Maya sees it as the perfect opportunity for revenge. She plans to publicly humiliate Jordy by dumping him on international TV—but she has to win first. Upon being whisked away to fictional European country Chalonne, Maya's scheme gets off to a rocky start after she alienates the other contestants with her I'm-not-here-to-make-friends attitude. As the competition unfolds, however, she's surprised to find herself connecting with Skye, the girl with whom Jordy cheated on Maya. Moreover, Maya is developing romantic feelings for her—and Skye feels the same. Employing hilariously biting alternating perspectives and a cast populated by strongly characterized female heroines and deliciously despicable reality TV villains, Gonzales (If This Gets Out) expertly taps into contemporary society's Bachelor obsession to deliver a smart rom-com with a twist. Characters cue as white. Ages 14–up.
