The Matchbreaker Summer
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4.1 • 8 Ratings
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A pitch-perfect summer camp rom-com about two teens with nothing in common who come together to help break up a romance and unexpectedly start one of their own...
Sixteen-year-old Paisley Manning has been attending Camp Starling since she was a little girl, when her parents ran it together. For the last few years, since her father’s death, she’s been the one helping her mom run the camp behind the scenes. This year, however, will be Camp Starling’s last hurrah because Paisley’s mom has met a guy online and they’re getting married.
Enter Hayden Bennett, who is working alongside Paisley. Paisley and Hayden are like oil and water. She follows the rules, and he seems to live to break them all. But when Hayden catches wind of Paisley's predicament, he has an idea. If a matchmaker in some computer algorithm caused the issue, a couple of real-life matchbreakers can fix it.
As they work to break up the happy couple, Paisley discovers that maybe Hayden's not so bad after all. Has she met her own perfect match in her fellow matchbreaker?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Rains's (The Christmas Village, for adults) whirlwind YA debut, set at a North Carolina summer camp, a high school junior reconciles her imagined future with the unpredictability of reality. Paisley Manning has helped her mother run Camp Starling since the death of its founder, Paisley's father, four years before. The teen is thrilled to finally be a counselor, but her elation sours abruptly when her mother announces that it's the camp's final session—after this summer, they're selling the camp and moving to Wyoming to live with her mother's boyfriend. When Paisley confides in troublemaking co-counselor Hayden Bennett, the pair plot to split up Paisley's mother's relationship and thus ensure that everything stays the same—but Paisley never expected to find a perfect match in her fellow matchbreaker. The novel is interspersed with Paisley's journal entries, detailing her emotions from the highest highs of her slow-burn courtship to the lowest lows of her fear of letting go and unresolved grief over her father's death. It's an optimistic romance that handily embodies the pleasing rhythm of summer camp. Most characters cue as white. Ages 12–up. Agent: Sarah Younger, Nancy Yost Literary.
Customer Reviews
Fantastic romantic camping read
Fantastic romantic camping read. Love the chemistry between Paisley and Hayden, the friendship between the campers, and the romance between Dave and Ellen and got the biggest kick out of the hijinks the campers pulled while attending Camp Starling. Highly recommend to all camp lovers, romance readers, etc.