Week 35 Review: Between You, Me, and the Honeybees

From Goodreads:

This novel follows a teen girl during her California summer of beekeeping, secrets, and stolen kisses.

Josie Hazeldine has just graduated from high school, and she's ready for a summer full of sunshine, beekeeping, and…lying to her mom.

Josie's mom couldn't be more proud of her daughter going to college, something she never got to do. But Josie wants to stay in her California hometown and take over the family business, Hazeldine Honey. So that college acceptance her mom is thrilled about? Yeah, Josie turned it down. But she's going to come clean—just not yet.

The neighbor's artsy, adorable grandson who's in town for the summer makes Josie's web of lies even more tangled. He's into Josie and the feeling is very mutual, but he's a Blumstein—the sworn enemy of the Hazeldines and their number one competition in the annual Honey Show at the end of July. As their secret fling goes on, Josie knows she's getting in way too deep to leave him behind when summer's over.

Can Josie keep the boy she can't stop thinking about without the secrets she's juggling crashing down around her?

My Review:
I had a pretty great time reading this book! I wasn't aware of it and wasn't planning on reading it, but it fit with the prompts that I had to fulfill, so I picked it up, and it was a pretty great story. It's not one that I would've sought out on my own, but once I was reading it, I enjoyed it!

I don't know anything about beekeeping, so I don't know how accurate it was in this book, but other reviews have mentioned that it's mainly correct, so I'm glad, there's not a lot of books that are about bees that I could find, or at least, that I was interested in, that there's this book.

Lying isn't the best thing in the world, especially to your mom about college. When you add in Ezra, from a family that feuds with her own about bees and honey, yeah, that was complicated. I could feel her anxiety through the page, and I empathized, social situations are sticky!

Her and Ezra were so cute together! They were awkward and a delight to read about, with their dynamics and the Romeo & Juliet nature of it all. While it added complications to her life, I'm glad she had him, especially when truths started to come out. 

This was an enjoyable read, and I am glad that I read it!

Author: Amelia Diane Coombs 
Read: August 26th, 2024 
Source: Ebook.bike 
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a SAC 2024 Book! 
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: June 22nd 2021

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