The Holloway Girls
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Publisher Description
“The Holloway Girls is about the power of a kiss—and the power of forgiveness, of siblings, of friendship, and, above all, of love. All wrapped up in a curse and woven through with magic. A page-turner that will charm you!” —Beth Revis, New York Times bestselling author
When your kiss is good luck, the wrong kiss could change everything...
During the kissing season, one kiss from Remy or her older sister Maggie will give the boy—or girl—good luck. Or so it has been for all the Holloway girls before. But this year, Remy's first season, she doesn't follow the rules, dooming the boy she kisses to bad luck that almost kills him and leaving Remy with a cursed kissing season.
Now Remy is adamant about keeping her lips to herself. But the new boy in town is making it hard to keep her promise. Especially because he seems to really want to get to know her, and isn't just using her for the Holloway luck. But before she can even think about kissing someone else, she'll have to find a way to fix the curse, or else her family's legacy will be tainted forever.
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Like generations of Holloway girls before her, music-loving baker Remy Holloway enters her kissing season at 16, a year in which any boy she kisses will be blessed with good luck. But when longtime crush Isaac Fuller experiences a frightening fall immediately after they kiss, followed by a constant string of bad luck, Remy and her peers become convinced that she's the first cursed Holloway. Heartbroken and angry, Remy pulls away from friends and family, and when new neighbors, twins Tobin and Juliet Curcio, individually express romantic interest in Remy, she hesitates. She swore off kissing for the remainder of her season, or at least until she can break the curse, and refuses to let her deepening feelings for Tobin shatter her resolve. Raising questions about consent, the narrative often disregards Remy's desire to abstain from kissing despite the Holloways' rule: "Both you and the person you kiss must do so willingly." Though repetitive beats lower the stakes, Crispell's (The Secret Ingredient of Wishes, for adults) YA debut handily encapsulates first love's heady drama with a fanciful premise. Most characters cue as white. Ages 13–up.
