Reviews

Match Me If You Can by Tiana Smith

taylorg_1005's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

cupcates's review against another edition

3.0

this wasn't a bad book, not even by a long shot.

however, it's so short and it still took me nearly a week to finish because i simply couldn't get into it. i don't know why, but my heart just wasn't in it.

katkinney's review against another edition

This was a fun light beach read. Maya has a crush on soccer team hottie Vince. Maya’s friend Robin has a matchmaking service (these guys are all in high school, so this is kind of a take with a grain of salt thing, but it’s still cute), where she has people email her their preferences, and she pairs them off. The trouble? Robin doesn’t think Maya+Vince=

mikaloveyou3's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

lisaluvsliterature's review against another edition

4.0

This book grabbed me from the very first page. It was cute and funny, and in a lot of ways, very realistic for teenagers. There was a point late in the book when I was thinking how much drama the characters were adding to the whole thing, but I can't complain about a teen book having teens acting like teens. I do feel like Mia should have caught on to the fact that Vince was probably meant to be with her friend Elena, but sometimes teens are pretty self-absorbed and her not seeing past what she wanted and all the trauma that was happening to her totally makes sense. On the one hand, Logan was totally what people say about how the boys tease the girls they like and pick on them. But on the other hand, he was definitely so much fun and I don't know how Mia hadn't gotten any little inkling of interest in him before. I understand too when there is that perfect guy you're dreaming of, Vince, that it is often hard to see anyone else, especially if it seems like what you've been wishing for is finally coming true. I get helping her friend Robyn out, but in a way I hate that Robyn didn't tell Mia about the competition to try for. One thing I did wonder about though, with her dad having a way for her to get some journalism experience, wasn't there anything else to help her that way with her goals of becoming a journalist? I was a bit surprised her dad had never thought of that before. While I know it was teenagers and I mentioned before the extra drama is normal, I have to wonder if guys would be like Logan was at the end. Their pride and all that. Anyway, it was a page-turner, so hard to put it down, and another that I was lucky enough to have lots of extra time and almost read in a day!

lauren716's review against another edition

5.0

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tarnkaur99's review against another edition

4.0

Wow. That was the craziest 200 pages I’ve ever read.
The book starts with a weird love rectangle and then you slowly realize that it’s more of two love lines installed. I’m going to keep the math analogies to a min.
Anyways.
I did not know how to rate this book. It was crazy. It annoyed me and made me want to cry. But it also made me laugh and fall in live with characters. The book was super cheesy. Logan, one of the love interests, was definitely big on cheesy dates and pickup lines.
Another factor that surprised me with this book was how similar the characters were to people in my life.
Robyn, her best friend reminded me of my best friend. Logan reminded me of the person I had a crush on in 12th grade.

myendlessshelf's review against another edition

3.0

Review to follow on My Endless Shelf on Jan 11th 2019.

liralen's review against another edition

3.0

Fun but good golly this is so YA. I'm really struck by the way that they're all so convinced that there's One Person whom they're meant to be with forever (or that it's not okay to date someone who's an okay match but not a great match for a while).

Also a sad little moment of...not slut-shading, but it's greyer relative:

"You left the game to go on a date with Logan," she said. It wasn't a question, so I didn't bother answering. If I thought she was being cold before, it was nothing like the frost coming off her now.

"So you and Logan are, what...together now?"

I shook my head and clasped my hands in my lap.

"That's not exactly fair to Vince, you know—whatever this thing with Logan is. I mean, it's not fair to Logan, either. You have two guys going after you, and you don't even have the decency to cut one of them loose. I never took you as the player type." (61)

This isn't unique to this book, mind. I think there was less of it in an earlier era—the idea that it's only okay to be interested in one person at once. But it's so sad to me: this demand to decide who you like before you've even had a chance to get to know either of the people you're curious about; this insistence that you have to be exclusive from the very beginning (I don't remember exactly, but at this point in the book Mia had gone on either one or zero dates with each boy) or be shamed for doing otherwise.

So! Sure. But definitely dumb-cute.

auburnedge's review against another edition

3.0

What happens when you only see the outside of a person. When that outside is enough to convince you that you love them. This feels like what a normal person does when they romanticize a fictional character as perfect for them.
She finds out pretty fast that there is no spark and she screwed up more than her potential for love. Now she has to fix her naive mistakes and get all the right people together.
I would equate it to a Midsummer's Night Dream but Puck didn't screw up, she did.