MY SYNOPSIS
Juniper has a chaotic life at home in Springfield, Massachusetts. She lives in a multi-generational household and yearns for the freedom an out-of-state school would provide.
Fitz lives in New Hampshire with his mom and feels a great deal of pressure to take care of her (she carries the gene for early onset Alzheimer's). Although he's resigned himself to a future attending a nearby college, he begrudgingly agrees to tour several universities in the northeast to appease his mother.
Juniper and Fitz meet each other while on their college tour and wonder if their friendship could turn into something more.
MY THOUGHTS
GENRE: Young Adult
POV: Alternating 1st Person
SETTING: Mostly NYC
TROPES: College, Coming of Age, Family Life, Love Triangle, Opposites Attract
STORYLINE: ⭐⭐💫
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: 🧑🏽🧑🏽🧑🏽
ROMANCE: 💑💑
TIME OF OUR LIVES had so much potential but fell far short for me. There are several plot holes and too few romantic moments to qualify as Young Adult Romance. The focus is much more on the family dynamics of each character (which is okay!) than I was expecting.
Perhaps, I would have found it more enjoyable had I not been expecting an adorable, feel good romance. But I chose to read this particular book, at this particular time, because I believed it would be similar to the YA romance stories previously published by this author duo and that isn't the case.
