The Falling in Love Montage by Ciara Smyth

Most rom-coms are straight, so Saoirse and Ruby make their own version. Saoirse and Ruby want to live out all the fun rom-com cliches for themselves, even though Saoirse doesn’t want a serious romance. What she wants is a distraction: her mum has early onset dementia and her relationship with her dad is tense as he prepares to re-marry. 

Saoirse’s going through a lot in her family life, and I thought it was really relatable that her desire to protect herself made her fairly spiky. To be honest, it only made me like her more. She’s got a sharp tongue that, despite some of the heavier themes, makes for a lot of laughs. It also has one of my favourite ever YA book covers.

I flew through this book!

“You can only go with what you feel right now and if you feel like it might make you happy, even for a while, jump in with both feet, girl, and get wet.”

This book is for exploring the impact of #illness #tensionwithparents #parentsbreakingup and #lgbtq

Video review here