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Simone Breaks All the Rules by Debbie Rigaud
4.0
Thanks to her strict immigrant parents, Simone Thibodeaux's life is 100% boy free. After three years with a curfew and doing everything that's asked of her from her parents and her all-girl's school, Simone is more than ready for a change.
College is supposed to be a fresh start but with her parents threatening to make her commute to Rutgers like her older sister, Simone knows it's time for drastic action.
Enter new friends Amita and Kira and the trio's senior playlist. All three girls are used to life on lockdown and they are sick of missing out. With one year left to cram in all the classic high school experiences they've missed the girls are ready to go dancing, skip class, and pick their own prom dates.
Simone thinks she has the perfect boy picked out. But what happens when the date her parents arranged for her years ago turns out to be better than she could have hoped? After a year of breaking rules, Simone will discover that sometimes you can't plan for love (or heartbreak) in Simone Breaks All the Rules (2021) by Debbie Rigaud.
Rigaud's latest contemporary romance is an ode to high school nostalgia and small acts of rebellion. Simone's narration is filled with funny quips and fun facts about teen activists she has researched for her senior project whom she draws from for inspiration throughout the story.
While readers might be quicker to recognize the OTP here than Simone herself, the journey to that discovery is well worth the wait. Simone and her new friends have instant chemistry and while they all pursue their own dates for prom, the real love story here is the lasting friendship they forge. Ben--Simone's arranged prom date--is her perfect foil and their dialogue as they get to know each other adds a fun dimension to this story.
Simone Breaks All the Rules is a laugh-out-loud story about friendship, prom, and learning that sometimes you don't have to look as far as you think to find yourself. Recommended for fans of stories with bucket lists, high school nostalgia, and witty banter.
Possible Pairings: Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant, 10 Truths and a Dare by Ashley Elston, I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo, When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon, My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma
College is supposed to be a fresh start but with her parents threatening to make her commute to Rutgers like her older sister, Simone knows it's time for drastic action.
Enter new friends Amita and Kira and the trio's senior playlist. All three girls are used to life on lockdown and they are sick of missing out. With one year left to cram in all the classic high school experiences they've missed the girls are ready to go dancing, skip class, and pick their own prom dates.
Simone thinks she has the perfect boy picked out. But what happens when the date her parents arranged for her years ago turns out to be better than she could have hoped? After a year of breaking rules, Simone will discover that sometimes you can't plan for love (or heartbreak) in Simone Breaks All the Rules (2021) by Debbie Rigaud.
Rigaud's latest contemporary romance is an ode to high school nostalgia and small acts of rebellion. Simone's narration is filled with funny quips and fun facts about teen activists she has researched for her senior project whom she draws from for inspiration throughout the story.
While readers might be quicker to recognize the OTP here than Simone herself, the journey to that discovery is well worth the wait. Simone and her new friends have instant chemistry and while they all pursue their own dates for prom, the real love story here is the lasting friendship they forge. Ben--Simone's arranged prom date--is her perfect foil and their dialogue as they get to know each other adds a fun dimension to this story.
Simone Breaks All the Rules is a laugh-out-loud story about friendship, prom, and learning that sometimes you don't have to look as far as you think to find yourself. Recommended for fans of stories with bucket lists, high school nostalgia, and witty banter.
Possible Pairings: Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant, 10 Truths and a Dare by Ashley Elston, I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo, When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon, My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma