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Title: Fool Me Twice
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Genre: Young Adult- Contemporary Fiction, Romance
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Source: advance copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review – review policy here.
Synopsis via Goodreads:
Mackenzie and Landon were the perfect couple . . . until he dumped her and broke her heart. Fast-forward a year and they're back where they first met—Serenity Ranch and Spa, where they are once again working together for the summer. Talk about awkward.
Then, Landon takes a nasty fall and gets amnesia. Suddenly, he’s stuck in the past—literally. His most recent memory is of last summer, when he and Mack were still together, so now he’s calling her pet names and hanging all over her. It's the perfect chance for revenge. The plan is simple: keep Landon at arm’s length, manipulate him so he’s the one falling love, and then BAM, dump him. There’s just one problem: Mack can’t fall for Landon all over again.
Then, Landon takes a nasty fall and gets amnesia. Suddenly, he’s stuck in the past—literally. His most recent memory is of last summer, when he and Mack were still together, so now he’s calling her pet names and hanging all over her. It's the perfect chance for revenge. The plan is simple: keep Landon at arm’s length, manipulate him so he’s the one falling love, and then BAM, dump him. There’s just one problem: Mack can’t fall for Landon all over again.
If you're looking for a light, summer read interspersed with laughs and swoons then this is the read for you! Crafted like a teenage romantic comedy it's easy to envision a young Amanda Bynes and Zac Efron playing summer romance at a Dirty Dancing-esque resort.
Mack and Landon are exes working together in the horse stables for the summer, which leads to Mack's heart being tortured because she hasn't really moved on from their abrupt break-up when school resumed. Peppered with comments of a Grease like experience having gone down. Ouch. It's when Landon falls from a horse and experience short-term memory loss that Mack and her BFF Bailey plan out a summer of pranks/revenge to get pay back on the hurt Landon rolled out.
"I might not be hurting his heart just yet,
but at least I got to his wallet."
but at least I got to his wallet."
Guuuurrrllll, we all know, this is not going to end well...
While a very cute read, loaded with pop culture references and movie quotes, it was painfully predictable. I called the ending by the time the first prank went off, which coasted my reading into anticipation of swoons, laughs and feels. I had a few nostalgic LOL moments that made the read worth it.
In the end if you're searching for a light, fun read you can finish at the beach... read it! I think I would enjoy this much more as a movie to add to my collection of teen rom-coms including "She's The Man", "What a Girl Wants", "John Tucker Must Die" and the like.
Lesson of the Read: Always be yourself, you just might surprise someone. Including yourself.
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