Week 53 Review: You Say It First

From Goodreads:
Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: her boyfriend Mason is sweet and supportive, she and her best friend Emily plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she even finds time to clock shifts phonebanking at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio, who gets under her skin from the moment he picks up the phone.

Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job—unsure what his future holds, or if he even cares. The last thing he has time for is some privileged rich girl preaching the sanctity of the political process. So he says the worst thing he can think of and hangs up.

But things don't end there.…

That night on the phone winds up being the first in a series of candid, sometimes heated, always surprising conversations that lead to a long-distance friendship and then—slowly—to something more. Across state lines and phone lines, Meg and Colby form a once-in-a-lifetime connection. But in the end, are they just too different to make it work?

You Say It First is a propulsive, layered novel about how sometimes the person who has the least in common with us can be the one who changes us most.

My Review:
This was a really fantastic book! I loved reading about Meg and Colby, who come from very different backgrounds, having this long distance, fraught relationship over the phone, that grows into something more! It was just a really fun read!

Meg is from a well to do family, and she's passionate about political activism, working the phones for a voter registration. Where as Colby's family isn't in the best place economically, and he lives in a conservative area. So their political views cause a lot of tension between the two of them

Watching the relationship between them grow, of their phone calls and their agreements with each other, was really great. Of learning who the other was, and seeing things from differing perspectives, it's the kind of things most people should experience, but hopefully not as volatile as it sometimes was between these two!

This book isn't a fluffy rom-com, it does deal with some tough topics, like suicide and divorce. There were things going on in their lives that they had to deal with, and I really enjoyed watching them work through them! 

I had a really great time reading this book, and I can't wait for more by Katie Catugno!

Author: Katie Cotugno
Read: December 30th, 2020
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it's a SAC 2020 Book!
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Published: June 16th 2020

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