Just Like the Movies

Kelly Fiore

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Pretty, popular Marijke Monti and over-achieving nerd-girl Lily Spencer have little in common-except that neither feels successful when it comes to love. Marijke can't get her boyfriend to say "I love you" and Lily can't get a boyfriend at all. When the girls end up at a late night showing of Titanic, sniffling along with the sinking ship, they realize that their love lives could-and should-be better. Which sparks an idea: Why can't life be like a movie? Why can't they create perfect romantic situations? Now they have a budding friendship and a plan-to act out grand gestures and get the guys of their dreams. It seems like fun at first, but reality turns out to be much more complicated, and they didn't take into account that finding true love usually requires finding yourself first.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY MAY 5, 2014

Marijke and Lily don't have a lot in common. Pretty, popular Marjke is a star athlete whose boyfriend has a band; Lily's a textbook overachiever and nerd (and she's single). But when they meet cute at a screening of Titanic, a friendship is born both girls are frustrated with their current romantic situations. Lily may have a crush on the unattainable Joe Lombardi, but Marijke's boyfriend is a cavalier flirt who can't say, "I love you." And so is born an idea, that, as they say in the movies, "might be just crazy enough to work." To get the love they want, Lily and Marijke recreate moments from the rom-coms they've watched over and over which is how Marijke ends up on Tommy's lawn in the middle of the night, blasting Peter Gabriel la John Cusack in Say Anything. Watching these two high school seniors help each other move out of their respective safety zones is a lot of fun, and Fiore (Taste Test) also works in some girl-power advice about not letting a boy become one's whole life. Ages 12 up.

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