This book was sweet and steady. I loved the characterization and the relationships between the characters; I think Lord captured the emotions of teenagers really well. There's a lot in this book that my students would be able to relate to, so while I wouldn't necessarily teach it in class, I'd definitely recommend it for them to read.

This was cute!! And in a world that is full of turmoil and angst, teens need cute options sometimes. This story is all about Abby Day, a middle of the road high school junior, that is trying to figure out her next steps in life. As a favor to her best friend Leo, she takes a DNA test that comes back with an 100% match. What happens next is a giant teenaged ball of jumbled feelings, gum, unwise decisions, and communication gaps. In other words, a typical teen summer!!

Let’s be clear about a few things, this book does a great job at acknowledging LGBT+ relationships in teens and blended families of all sorts. However, only one character has their financial background discussed, and they are “super rich”. Considering all the expensive hobbies, summer activities (summer camp on Puget Sound and am Italian vacation), and future life plans, these teens do come off over-privileged and just a tad unrelatable. But the discussions about friendship, forgiveness, and growing to move beyond hard things transcends all of that. These are lessons that people of all ages must learn and I am so happy that those lessons are packaged in this cute and fun book.

Thank you Netgalley for the electronic ARC and opportunity to charge my opinion.

Abby's best friend, Leo, participates in a DNA service, like Ancestry, with the hopes to find out more about his birth parents as he is adopted. He convinces Abby to do it as well. Abby assumes she will find out boring things like how Irish she is, etc, but what she finds out changes her life forever. According to her DNA results, Abby has a sister....an older sister she never met...as in a 100% (not half!) sister! This sister is Savannah, or Savvy, who lives not far away in another Seattle suburb. Although she is only a year and a half older than Abby, she is very different. She is pretty much an Instagram star with a huge following and is the polar opposite of Abby. How could they come from the same parents? The two girls decide a course of action in order to learn more about each other; they decide to meet up at summer camp. To complicate things further, Leo, her best friend and crush, works at this camp and after their awkward moment things haven't been as easy as before. Savvy and Abby have a whole summer to figure out their complicated story and there's much more in store for Abby. Emma Lord's You Have a Match is a sweet coming of age tale that focuses on friendship, family, social media, and the beauty of figuring out all those important, yet complicated moments in a person's life.

Both Abby and Savvy are interesting character in You Have a Match. They are opposites, but sisters nonetheless and this made me think of The Parent Trap, especially with the summer camp setting. I enjoyed Savvy's type A personality and rule following antics, whereas Abby isn't even sure of the rules right off the bat and is chewing gum at camp. It's a no-no! I also really enjoyed Abby's best friend-turned-love interest, Leo. He also has an adoption story as he was adopted from the Philippines. I do wish Lord would have paid a bit more attention to Leo's story, because I think it is a worthwhile one and much needed in YA literature this day in age. Nonetheless, his adorable romance with Abby was well done and very cute--perfect for camp and summer love.

The best part for me was the setting of summer camp in You Have a Match. Summer camp is the quintessential location for learning more about yourself, making new friends, having a summer romances, and all that a coming-of-age summer brings. Lord's descriptions of camp and the Pacific Northwest were really great and something I most definitely enjoyed.
While I didn't love You Have a Match as much as I had hoped, it was still a cute and heartwarming YA novel that I enjoyed cuddling up with this winter. So, are you a fan of Emma Lord? Have you read Have a Match? Do you enjoy stories set at summer camp? Let me know in the comments below.

4 stars

Abby and her best friends take a DNA test together. It’s meant to help Leo find possible relatives as he is adopted. But he doesn’t get a match. Abby gets a match and a message that says she has a sister and her sister wants to meet her. Abby doesn’t tell Leo. They are in a weird place because almost kissed and haven’t talked about it. Abby agrees to meet Savannah but doesn’t tell anyone but Connie. Her other best friend. Savannah wants Abby to go to summer camp so they can get to know each other and find out why their parents have never told them about each other. When she arrives she finds out that this is the camp
Leo has been attending and that he is friends with Savannah. Leo still doesn’t know that Savannah is Abby’s sister. Meanwhile Abby and Savannah have an instant rivalry reminiscent of a modern day Parent Trap. I love the way Emma Lord spins a such modern stories. I had high expectations after Tweet Cute and they were met.

You Have a Match by Emma Lord is an entertaining novel about discovering you have an older sister, you have no idea about. This book is a fun summer adventure, which is a perfect escape from the cold weather and pandemic. Abby grows so much as a person over the summer. There are so many secrets for her to unravel, along with getting to know her sister Savvy, and her crush/best friend Leo, while at summer camp. I highly recommend this book, you won't be disappointed.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

i love this just as much as her last book thooo :')

i had no idea this was basically a parent trap reimagined and UGH! so GOOD! I love Savvy and Abby and their shenanigans. I kind of wish I would have read this during the summer to fully experience the summer camp vibes, but it did fully take me out of this frigid winter lol.

It had the perfect amount of finding-yourself-ness and an adorable friends-to-lovers romance.

fr tho i need to watch the parent trap asap.

I will read anything Emma Lord releases!! forever!!

Ok. So. I’m an adult who loves YA. And this story is really cute in places. But it also drags in places and I’m thinking that maybe the book just doesn’t translate well to my age group? I would have loved it when I was younger. But it just didn’t sparkle for me like really good YA sparkles.

In this YA rom-com, Abby decides to do a DNA test in solidarity with her best friend (and person she's secretly in love with, of course) Leo, who was adopted and is curious about his heritage. But Abby is the one who gets big news from the results: it turns out that she has a sister she has never heard of. And that sister turns out to live nearby and be a popular, shiny-haired, type-A Instagram fashion and wellness influencer - total opposite of Abby, who is much more impulsive and tomboyish, into nature photography, and struggling with her SAT prep. They decide to spend the summer at the same camp to try to get to know each other a little and try to figure out how on earth their parents - who appear to have been really good friends years ago - have never even mentioned the other couple... or the other sister for that matter. Turns out that this is the same camp that Leo is headed to for the summer, and now Abby and Leo really have to face the awkwardness of their one kiss head-on. Definitely got some Parent Trap vibes with this one (which I LOVE), with the sisters at summer camp, their pranks, their trying to figure out how to approach their parents, and their development toward a sisterly bond - and then we've got the enjoyable addition of the best friend falls for other best friend but doesn't want to ruin the relationship romance trope along with it. I loved Emma Lord's Tweet Cute so much that I wanted to read this one immediately when I saw it was coming out this month; this one has quite a different setting, and I thought it interesting how it was quite a different protagonist - one who is really struggling in school and chafing against her parents' academic goals for her, rather than the over-achiever protagonist of the other (and that I feel like often shows up in YA rom-coms) - but it still was very enjoyable in its own way, especially as the sister relationship was a nice complement to the rom-com background. 3.5/5 stars

5/5 Stars
You Have a Match by Emma Lord is not my typical read. I actually almost passed it up because of this, but I am so glad that I did not. This is a great (mostly) lighthearted story of a girl who takes a DNA test on a whim with her friend and discovers she has a very real biological sister who isn’t that much older, or that far away from her.

In a modern day Parent Trap, the girls attend the same summer cam in an effort to get to the bottom of why the parents would have given their first daughter up for adoption. Obviously, some summer hijinks ensue and things don’t always go the easy way.

I was honestly hooked from the first chapter of this book. The characters are interesting and likeable and I loved vicariously having a summer camp experience through these characters. I am very interested now to go back and read Emma Lord’s first book!

God, YOU HAVE A MATCH is the secret-twins-reunite-at-summer-camp novel that I never knew I deserved, but I needed in my life. The sibling dynamic between Abby and Savvy is *chef's kiss* and makes me ache for when I can hang out with my own sister in person again. Emma Lord, you have stolen my heart and left YOU HAVE A MATCH in it's place, and I thank you for it.

I liked this book, but Iwas not loving it, so I did not finish. The plot line is fine, but just not that interesting. Kids who go to summer camp will undoubtedly love it. The surprise sister will become more common as more people do genetic testing I think

This is such a fun book! I had a great time reading this one. It had a parent trap vibe, without the identical twin aspect. The writing was really easy and flowing and I loved the sense of humor that Lord infuses into her books. I loved that this book wasn't super romance heavy. Sure its there, but this is a story about family and history and that plays a much bigger role than the romance aspect. I always think that YA books are sometimes too heavy on the romance. Overall I really enjoyed this and definitely recommend it! Though I do think that it makes a better summer read.

I’m actually sad to say I ended up DNFing this one. I think it was more of a me issue though than anything to do with the story itself. I loved Tweet Cute and hopefully will circle back to this one in the future!

Oh, gosh. I really loved this book. The setting, the characters, the mood, the tension. Yes! There was tension almost from the first page and I was anxious to see what it was all about.

I loved the bit about the DNA testing, and I presume we'll see more of that popping up in books these days.

This was just a very sweet read, lovely characters, and relationships, and drama and resolutions where necessary. I will read every single thing that Emma Lord publishes.

Ugh this is just the cutest story. I'm all about the uplifting reads these days and this one is a great pick!

This book wasn't what I expected. Romance definitely took a back seat to the story of Abby and Savannah, two sisters who find each other because of a DNA match. Neither knew about the other and wouldn't you know, they live near one another. So, of course, they decide to meet and then plan to go to the same camp that summer.

I don't know about anyone else, but I was definitely not going to summer camp as an older high school student (Abby is 16 and Savannah is maybe 18?) and it seems like everyone who is anyone is at this camp. Abby's crush and best friend, Leo, and Savannah's best friend, Mickey, are also at camp. So that sort of threw me. I know there are camps that have families attend for generations, but it just felt weird here.

A lot of the tension comes from Abby not telling Leo how she feels about him. Common enough, especially when you're a teen. Savannah's and Abby's parents' were friends (more like acquaintances who maybe didn't understand boundaries) who had a huge falling out - hence the girls not knowing about one another.

So, I don't know, but this book just sort of hit me in the meh. On to better things!

My thanks to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Do you ever finish a book and just hug it while squealing “cuuuuuute” because that was me when I finished You Have a Match. This was my first book by Lord but after starting I immediately ordered Tweet Cute because I really like Lord’s writing style. You Have a Match reminded me of the Parent Trap with a lot of great food and a cute romance on the side. It was exactly what I needed to bust my reading slump and although there is still some eye roll worthy teen antics in here, I really felt like Abby and Savvy were realistic teenagers at summer camp. This is definitely one to check out! It’s out now. ⁣

At first, while enjoyable, I thought this book was going to go down an immature (I know it's YA, but there are a lot of levels of YA!) mindless fluff of a book. I was wrong! It was such a cute story, and dealt with some deep feelings. I really enjoyed the characters, and of course, being away at camp made for a great setting.

After loving Emma Lord's debut last year, I had been eagerly anticipating You Have a Match, and I'm happy to say it didn't disappoint! this story charmed me almost instantly. it weaves together so many of my favorite things— summer camp settings, friends-to-lovers, stories with a heavy focus on sibling relationships— and manages to tie all these disparate pieces together really well. I love love loved all the friendships, especially. if you're a fan of YA contemporary, I can't imagine you wouldn't enjoy this one!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! No spoilers. Beyond amazing I enjoyed this book so very much. The characters and storyline were fantastic. The ending I did not see coming Could not put down nor did I want to. Truly Amazing and appreciated the whole story. This is going to be a must read for many many readers. Maybe even a book club pick.