The final tradition of their school is Howl, a city-wide scavenger hunt meets Steal the Bacon, and Rowan overhears a group of classmates banding together to hunt down her and Neil so they of course have to team up to survive – and finally learn who each other really are along the way. Rowan reads and even writes romance novels, something she’s learned to hide as she got older. The two of them have been neck-and-neck in everything for four years: student council races, essay contests, valedictorian, you name it. Our main character and narrator is Rowan, starting her final day of high school with her standard early morning text from her nemesis, Neil. It is a full-throated defense of the genre, aimed at people who are just learning society thinks they should be shameful. It’s the type of book I feel is perfectly positioned for high schoolers because of much of it is about not being ashamed of loving what you love, especially if what you love is romance novels.
It’s a romance novel that loves romance novels, and it wants you to too.
Enemies to lovers, forced partnership, small hiding spot for two – the works. It is heartfelt and sweet and full of tropes and it knows it. This book is fluent in the language of romance novels and it shows.
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