Received an Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for a fair review from Entangled Publishing, LLC via NetGalley.

Boomerang Boyfriend was a cute, sweet, fun read. I have read Chris Cannon’s books before and always enjoyed them. This one did not disappoint! I was needing something on the lighter side and this fit the bill perfectly! Delia and Jack have known each other a long time, since Delia is best friends with Jack’s sister, Zoe. They have always disliked each other for various reasons, but once they start working together they realize maybe they don’t hate each other quiet as much as they thought. I really enjoyed the relationship that grew between Delia and Jack. Jack has recently had a loss and this tends to cloud his judgement at times with Delia. I loved all the interactions with Jack’s family! His mom and especially his grandma were great! I also really enjoyed the friendship between Delia and Zoe. They had the type of friendship anyone would want. Overall, I would highly recommend this book!

'Boomerang Boyfriend' is a novel about falling in love with a person you have known for a long time but only now you actually noticed her / him. Zoe and Dalia have been friends forever, Zoe has a brother who seems to be annoyed by his little sister's friend frequent visits. Everything changes when Jack (the brother) and Delia start working together and really get to know each other as teenagers. Will their relationship last? Will Zoe accept that her best friend is dating her big brother?
The novel highly focuses on the relations between people (siblings, friends and parents), but it also slightly touches the topic of death and LGBT. I enjoyed reading the book even tough the main theme of falling in love with your best friend's brother is rather a cliche, and I would appreciate a bit more suspense and a bit more humour in exchanges between the characters.

Delia and Jack never got along but when Delia becomes the new waitress at the place Jack works sparks fly. After these two share their feelings with each other they decided to keep their budding romance a secret. Why? Because Delia's best friend is Jack's sister and they're not sure how she'll react to their relationship.

This Young Adult romance is so adorable!!!

Free-spirited Delia has been the bane of Jack’s existence for more than a decade. As his little sister’s best friend, Delia and Jack have had their fair share of arguments and prank wars – to the point that Delia refers to Jack as “Jack the Jerk.” But when they start working together at Betty’s Burgers and spending more time together in their shared art class, Jack and Delia start seeing each other in a different light.

So, you guys know me. I’ve got some favorite tropes. I like enemies-to-lovers. I love friends-to-lovers. I’m also a pretty big fan of brother’s best friend and best friend’s brother. Throw in some adorable dogs like this book has, and it’s pretty hard for me not to like it.

The story here kept me entertained. There was enough tension to keep me on my toes, but not so much that I got frustrated. The conflicts were believable and I liked the characters. The problem I had was that the writing just felt awkward. And that’s the problem with reviewing ARCs. Did I get the book before the editor did? I might never know, but I’ll give Entangled and the author the benefit of the doubt.

I also felt like I was missing some key information on these characters, and going to the author’s website told me what Goodreads and Netgalley hadn’t – that this book is third in a series. I wouldn’t say that reading the first two is required, but I felt like I was expected to know some background information about the characters in order to really connect with what was going on.

Still, the book was good. I enjoyed the plot, I liked the characters, and while I might have hoped for some more interaction between Delia and Jack, I did appreciate that neither of them lost themselves or their friends in their attraction. Also, this is a young adult romance and it’s very clean, if that’s a thing you’re worried about.

Final rating: ★★★☆☆

Three and a half stars.

I have to admit, I misread the blurb on NetGalley when I requested this book and thought, for some reason, that Delia was best friends with Jack's brother not his sister!

Anyhoo, Delia has been best friends with Zoe for ever and spends probably more time at Zoe and Jack's house than her own. Delia's parents work anti-social shifts and appear to be a bit switched-off, they don't remember to buy food and sometimes it seems as though Delia is the adult taking care of her feckless parents. Having said that, money is clearly tight and her parents love her, they just aren't often THERE.

Zoe and Jack have been touched by tragedy when their father and grandfather were killed in a car crash, at first their mother also seemed to have checked out but she seems to be doing better. They all three live with Zoe and Jack's grandmother. Zoe is dating Grant and Delia had high hopes of dating Grant's best friend Aidan, but he has firmly friend-zoned her after she spontaneously kissed him.

Delia is starting work at Betty's Burgers as the new dessert princess - basically she serves slices of cake and sings happy birthday if someone has a birthday (when they get a free slice of cake). Jack already works at Betty's which is a problem because Jack is a complete jerk. But it seems as though the fates are conspiring against Delia because not only does she have to see Jack every time she spends time at Zoe's house AND work with him but as his class' art teacher has left suddenly he is also taking art classes at school with her. But as they are forced into even close proximity Jack and Delia discover they may have more in common than they thought and the person who irritates them the most may also see them the best.

I have tagged this as "angst-angst-angst" because of Delia's parents and Jack and Zoe's situation and Jack's best friend whose brother died of an overdose, heck even Aidan has problems at home. But at the same time I have tagged it as low-angst because these things are just background and the actual plot is relatively angst-free.

I liked this, but I didn't love it. I see from Goodreads that this is the third in the Boyfriend Chronicles series and although it can definitely be read as a stand-alone there is definitely the feel that maybe I missed something - perhaps the start of Delia's crush on Aidan?

Overall, a sweet YA romance about your best friend's older brother, it's got dogs and pie and art jokes and it's about normal kids with normal names, albeit that some of them have had to deal with some difficult circumstances.