6 Times We Almost Kissed (And One Time We Did)
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4.7 • 46 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Nina LaCour meets Jenny Han in this beautiful and charming story of six moments that lead to two girls, one kiss, and eventually, three little words that were maybe always true.
After years of bickering, Penny and Tate have called a truce: they’ll play nice. They have to. Their mothers (life-long best friends) need them to be perfect, drama-free daughters when Penny’s mother becomes a living liver donor to Tate’s mom. Forced to live together as their moms recover, the girls’ truce is essential in keeping everything—their jobs, the house, the finances, the Moms’ healing—running smoothly. They’ve got to let this thing between them go.
There’s one little hitch: Penny and Tate keep almost kissing.
It’s just this confusing thing that keeps happening. You know, from time to time. For basically their entire teenaged existence.
They’ve never talked about it. They’ve always ignored it in the aftermath. But now they’re living across the hall from each other.
And some things—like their kisses—can’t be almosts forever.
Told through the two girls’ present, and six moments from their past, this dynamic love story shows that sometimes the person you need the most has been there for you all along.
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Thanks to their mothers' decades-long friendship, 17-year-olds Tate and Penny have known each other their whole lives. Despite the teens' myriad similarities, including the fact that they both like girls, they've always been at odds with one another. When Tate's mother is diagnosed with Alpha-1 liver disease and Penny's mother agrees to be an organ donor, the four move into the same house following the procedure to facilitate a smooth recovery. Their proximity forcibly intertwines Penny and Tate's lives even further and, together, the girls face financial precarity, worries surrounding their academic futures, and their mothers' health complications. As they grow closer, the pair reckon with their previously obstinate relationship and their mutual and unignorable attraction. Via Penny and Tate's alternating, distinctly rendered perspectives, which oscillate between six moments in their past and the present, Sharpe (The Girls I've Been) smartly navigates familiar romance tropes, such as friends-to-lovers, to craft a refreshing and gratifying dynamic. The girls' individual challenges and their shared conflicts are believably woven together, and their intense chemistry conjures a savvy, slow-burn romance. Major characters read as white. Ages 14–up.
