What I Like About You
Written by Marisa Kanter
Narrated by Dara Rosenberg
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can…but in the real world, its more complicated. In this debut novel that’s perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson, Marisa Kanter hilariously and poignantly explores what happens when internet friends turn into IRL crushes.
Is it still a love triangle if there are only two people in it?
There are a million things that Halle Levitt likes about her online best friend, Nash.
He’s an incredibly talented graphic novelist. He loves books almost as much as she does. And she never has to deal with the awkwardness of seeing him in real life. They can talk about anything…
Except who she really is.
Because online, Halle isn’t Halle—she’s Kels, the enigmatically cool creator of One True Pastry, a YA book blog that pairs epic custom cupcakes with covers and reviews. Kels has everything Halle doesn’t: friends, a growing platform, tons of confidence, and Nash.
That is, until Halle arrives to spend senior year in Gramps’s small town and finds herself face-to-face with real, human, not-behind-a-screen Nash. Nash, who is somehow everywhere she goes—in her classes, at the bakery, even at synagogue.
Nash who has no idea she’s actually Kels.
If Halle tells him who she is, it will ruin the non-awkward magic of their digital friendship. Not telling him though, means it can never be anything more. Because while she starts to fall for Nash as Halle…he’s in love with Kels.
Marisa Kanter
Marisa Kanter is a young adult author, amateur baker, and reality television enthusiast. She is the author of What I Like About You, As If on Cue, and Finally Fitz. Born and raised in the suburbs of Boston, her obsession with books led her to New York City, where she worked in the publishing industry to help books find their perfect readers. She currently lives in Los Angeles, writing love stories by day and crocheting her wardrobe by night. Follow her at MarisaKanter.com.
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Readers find this title to be a mix of emotions. Some reviewers found it cute, fun, and adorable, with a friends-to-lovers romance that they loved. They enjoyed the book-related social media aspect and the importance of YA. However, there were negative reviews that mentioned the book falling flat, taking a long time to get to the best part, and the protagonist being self-absorbed and self-serving. Overall, the book is described as addictive, relatable, and a decent teen romance with a good balance of cute and deep moments.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It’s well written, and the narration is great, but the constant lying veered too much into catfish territory for me, and I couldn’t empathize with the protagonist because of that.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Give me a book that has to do with fandom and I’m so there. Give me a book that has to let with baking. This book had both but....fell flat for me
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I was really disappointed in this book but only because I couldn’t sympathise with the protagonist at all. I really liked all the other characters but the main character was continuously self-absorbed and self-serving. It was really hard to understand her motivation and even in the final scenes she demonstrates to the apparent love of her life that she doesn’t know him at all and I was not routing for their relationship at all.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I would have given it a four and a half if I could, but alas it stays in a 4
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5DNF at 10% what wrong with Adult reading YA book?
'I built One True Pastry on being for teens, by a teen. Because engaging with adults who think YA is for them? It’s exhausting.'
honestly I'm not once, want to put the book down so soon...like at the very beginning of the book. it was irritated me with her attitude. I'm 29 and I enjoyed reading YA so much. and so many many YA books that don't meant for only YA audience. everyone should enjoy their books no matter how old they are.
and the I can't tell you my real personality was kinda dull for me in this book.
I don't see why she couldn't tell Nash who she is. so I decided to dnf this for my own sake. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The addictiv and fun kind of cliche. This book has a good balance of cute and deep. The serious stuff is there, but not overpowering, the book stuff is so relatable and I just love how much I relate to the school stress. I love the family side as well. It's amazing that I have a really different life then the main character, yet I relate so much!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If you just ignore all the super woke cringey conversations with the friends at school (seriously, who talks like that?) it's a decent book. Your typical, predictable, cute teen romance for a casual listen. The narrator is great.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"I solemnly swear that your cupcake is so moist. The moistest, dare I say."
"Moist is the grossest word on the planet and he knows it." ????
I really enjoyed this book!! I loved the book-related social media aspect, it was at the same time familiar and new to me, since I'm not on Twitter. I love how this is about the importance of YA (and it's definitely not less important because the target audience are teens!) and that the "social media you" isn't cooler/better than the "in real-life you". Also, CUPCAKES.
I definitely recommend the audiobook ? - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was cute, fun, aggravating, adorable, made me scream in frustration and want to yell at the mc but also had me unable to put it down.
Between the adorable friends-to-lovers romance, the anxiety of the Hallies lies, the ups and downs of all her friendships, and of course, the book drama, I LOVED this book. It hit so many points and was an absolute wonder to read. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cute story
But took a long time to get to the best part ? - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This young adult book will especially appeal to book bloggers.Halle Levitt, using the pseudonym Kels Roth, has been blogging about books and cupcakes since she was 14. (The cupcakes she makes and features on her blog are coordinated to match the cover of every book she features.) She chose a pseudonym because her grandmother (“Grams”) is prominent in the editing world, and she wanted to see if she could be successful on her own as a publicist.Her blog, called “One True Cupcake,” and its accompanying twitter feed, become quite popular, and Halle-as-Kels makes a number of close virtual friends. Her best online friend is Nash Stevens, who creates weekly web comics on his own blog, “Outside the Lines.”After Halle’s grandmother dies, Halle, 17, and her younger brother Oliver (“Ollie”), 15, move in with their grandpa (“Gramps”) in Middleton, Connecticut. It will not only help Gramps not to be alone, but Halle and Ollie's parents, prize-winning documentary makers, need to go off to Israel to research their latest project. Halle and Ollie start high school in Middleton and Halle is shocked to discover she is actually at the same school as Nash. Online, writing as Kels, Halle feels so much more confident than she does in real life (or "IRL" as Halle is wont to say). Kels “always knows exactly what to say,” whereas Halle is more apt to blurt out the wrong thing at the wrong time. Thus when Halle meets Nash she is loathe to reveal her identity to him, lest he decides he doesn't like her. She thinks: “I can’t jeopardize Kels’s friendship with Nash. I won’t. I don’t know how to friendship IRL.” [Indeed, Halle isn’t wrong about that.]Even while getting to know Nash better at school, she continues to text back and forth with him as Kels.It’s easy to see where this plot line is going, but it’s an entertaining journey nevertheless.Evaluation: Halle is quite self-absorbed, but she grows - a bit - over the course of the story. Also, while in Connecticut, Halle and Ollie learn about their Jewish roots, which their parents, always on the road, never really were able to help them explore. It is one of the few books I can think of with contemporary Jewish characters and an explanation for readers about what that means.