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A review by booksandlemonsquash
Shake Things Up by Skye Kilaen
4.0
This is too cute! I picked this up from Twitter and I’m so glad I did. It’s full of feeeeeeeelings (and I love that Allie agrees with me - ew feelings!), and cuties being cute and supportive, and road trip fun, and just so much and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Noelle is a total cutie pie and I love her crush on Allie and Matt. But I also love how realistic this felt, especially on her relationship with Matt, and how not everyone moves at the same pace or experiences things in the same way. That was so lovely to see. You see too many books where everyone just head first and this isn’t totally that which is wonderful.
We also see some ups and downs of polyam / consensual non monogamous relationships. I really liked how Allie and Matt navigated theirs and how it quite clearly worked for them, but also how Noelle coming along messed with things a bit. And Matt having his own feelings drama. I just enjoyed it.
I will say that I feel Allie may be grey-romantic (or demi?) but it’s not said on page. I just got that vibe and would have happily seen that explored a little.
All in all a totally lovely read. 4 stars.
Noelle is a total cutie pie and I love her crush on Allie and Matt. But I also love how realistic this felt, especially on her relationship with Matt, and how not everyone moves at the same pace or experiences things in the same way. That was so lovely to see. You see too many books where everyone just head first and this isn’t totally that which is wonderful.
We also see some ups and downs of polyam / consensual non monogamous relationships. I really liked how Allie and Matt navigated theirs and how it quite clearly worked for them, but also how Noelle coming along messed with things a bit. And Matt having his own feelings drama. I just enjoyed it.
I will say that I feel Allie may be grey-romantic (or demi?) but it’s not said on page. I just got that vibe and would have happily seen that explored a little.
All in all a totally lovely read. 4 stars.