Ethan and Natalia’s friendship hasn’t been the same since prom. After an accident at their senior sunrise event, they must work together to conceal the secrets of their fellow seniors, while straining to acknowledge their feelings for one another.

This was a cute YA friends to lovers romance. It’s chock full of high school drama and miscommunication, but forgiving since they’re teens. I liked the dual points of view so we saw both Ethan and Natalia’s perspectives and what they were hiding. I loved seeing how well they knew one another and supported each other despite whatever else was going on around them.

It was an entertaining and easy listen — thanks Macmillan Audio for the complimentary copy.

This book is perfect for fans of You’ve reached Sam, and If he has been with me. After their prom they decide to enact their pact that they would be each other’s first if they were single by prom, and after second thoughts and she bolts they end up going their own ways for the summer. After spending a weekend for a senior retreat before graduation, she writes down her fears and places it in a jar to burn, but only after she places her letter in the jar that she realizes she doesn’t want a specific person to know her fear, only when she tries to reclaim her letter it ends with her spreading the letters to the wind. Her and her friend gather all of them but 7 notes. After a lot of self growth they both realize what it is what they really want out of life and that they need to go after what they want and not what people expect of them.
🔹Dual POV
🔹He falls first

This was a sweet read that took me right back to my high school years. It was quick and entertaining and the narrator was absolutely perfect. This was a 3 star read for me.

First thing’s first: thank you Netgalley for the ALC of this book!
I Wish You Would was a coming of age story told from Natalia and Ethan’s point of view. Best friends who are secretly in love with each other are working through a miscommunication that has put a wedge into their friendship. Natalia accidentally loses several private letters on a senior sleepover and her and Ethan work to collect them all before they’re discovered.
This was pretty good, but Ethan was uncomfortably dramatic. I have to remind myself that I was probably in the running for Most Dramatic Person To Ever Exist when I was 17, but like oof dude. I will have two ratings for this book: how I would have rated it as a 15 year old and how I would rate it now, as an adult. Obviously 15 year old me liked this book much better than adult me. I think the characters were believably high schoolers and the supporting cast was interesting and lovable. They didn’t feel like an afterthought and they were interwoven into the story well.
15 year old me rates it: 4⭐️
Adult me rates it: 3⭐️

YA romance full of angst, social disparity, and misunderstandings set in the backdrop of a senior class camp out.

It's a best friends-to misunderstood aquaintances- to lovers kind of story.
The protagonist has severe anxiety, which creates behavioral choices that create drama.
Is it a comedy? Not really. It's too real.
Is it romantic? Yeah, it is, so read it!

Thank you to the MacMillan Audio for the advanced release of this title in exchange for my honest review.

I was definitely interested in this book until about 50% when i started to lose interest. I went in knowing this book was a bit young for me, but was hoping there would be enough depth that I could overlook that. Honestly though, there wasn’t. Just wasn’t for me.

This is cute and fine for what it is. It relied a little too much on lack of communication just on all counts for me. Usually I give more leeway for that in YA books, but it was seriously like not a single character was talking to anyone about anything and it felt a little too much. The plot was cute, we did similar things at my high school in terms of bonding at the beginning of both freshman and senior year so I liked revisiting those memories through this book.

For the audiobook, my biggest complaint was the difference in how fast each narrator was talking. It was like I kept having to adjust the speed because our male narrator spoke so much slower and it needed to be sped up whenever we switched.

This was cute for what it was! Felt very YA at times but that’s ok! The narrators were really good and I enjoyed listening! A very sweet friends to lovers romance 🥰

This was a cute book. I did feel that it was slow at times. I’m not the biggest fan of miscommunication trope but it did work here since this was a YA novel!

Thank you macmillian audio for the ALC