What a cute story of young love, featuring friends to lovers and friendship.

🎧I listened to the audio and paired it with the physical copy to completely immerse myself into the book. This brought all the laughs, and I really enjoyed the narration!

*many thanks to Wednesday Books, Macmillan audio and Netgalley for the gifted copy for review

Thank you to NetGalley, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Young Listeners, Flatiron Books, Daisy Garrison, Georgia Garrison (audio narrator), and Jesse Aaronson (audio narrator) for the opportunity to read and listen to the audiobook of Six More Months of June in exchange for an honest review.

Besties Forever
Six More Months of June is your typical friends-to-lovers high school romance. Caplan and Mina have been best friends since third grade. Neither would have considered romantic feelings for the other. It's just unthinkable! While growing up neighbors, Caplan and Mina's friendship breaks the status quo. Caplan plans to be prom king alongside his girlfriend, Hollis. Mina is an avid reader and the class valedictorian. She even tried her best to befriend Hollis out of respect for her friendship with Caplan. Nothing out of the ordinary here!

Shifting Tides
Everything changes when Caplan's other skater and trouble-maker best friend, Quinn, asks Mina to go out. Caplan knows Quinn, and hopes that Mina will bring about some changes in him in a way that won't leave her heart-broken. But a strange wave of...is that jealousy...? comes over Caplan, he realizes too late where his true feelings lie.

Final Thoughts
Between friendship, love, and navigating senior year in high school, this book is a well-crafted read relatable for a contemporary audience. I enjoyed the style and the characters, and it brought me back to some of my own high school experiences. While rather cliche, it hits all the right spots in its execution.

Any high school reader can enjoy Six More Months of June and come away with a peaceful mind and thoughts of hope when it comes to choices after high school. Highly recommend.

This book was about high school aged kids who were engaging in adult activities. They were having a lot of sex (off page) and drinking a bunch. Mina followed Caplan around like a little puppy dog and I felt like it showed unhealthy habits of a teenage girl. Caplan was having sleepovers with his girlfriend, while her parents were home. So many questions about when this book was set.

The character development was good as well as the setting. It just didn't hit "right" for me because of the strangeness of the activities that were happening.

Thank you for the audio file, this is my honest opinion.
#MacAudio2024

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this arc!

What a great book!! I loved the story and the writing style. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would! My first for this author but will not be my last! I live a good YA book!

Best friends navigate senior year and lots of changes eventually realizing that the one they are meant to be with is each other. Drama only high school can provide. Cute story.

*3.5⭐️
This book made me cackle! It was SO funnier, probably funnier than it should have been. I loved Hollis! I think she overcame a terrible boyfriend, and while she was unjustifiably mean to Mina, she grew by the end of the book! Sadly, this book is supposed to be about said terrible boyfriend and Mina.

I usually love best friends to lovers, but not when one half of said besties has a girlfriend for the majority of the book while the other starts to fall for another guy, who I honestly was shipping her with. If this book had been in first person of Mina’s perspective, I wouldn’t have even known which guy she ends up with! This might be the first time I have ever thought that first person would be better for the story since I wouldn’t have had to listen to Kaplan have a semi-toxic relationship with Hollis and then decide that he has feelings for Mina only after seeing her with Quinn.

I will concede that this book is perfect for some fans of Jenny Hannah and Carley Fortune, because it is the right vibe. I guess I’m just that outlier that love their romances and didn’t love this book.

I loved the narrators! There voices were perfect for the two characters and worked well together.

The moral of the story is: I thought this was an interesting book but did not work as a romance. If it were reframed as a romance between basically any other characters (I.e. an HEA for Hollis and Quinn) it would have worked!

I listened to the audio version of this book narrated by Jesse Aaronson and Georgia Garrison. The narration was wonderful. I did speed it up considerably, because the story seemed to be taking forever to go anywhere, especially at first.

This is a YA book about high school aged kids and their friendships and romances. I really did love it after the first part. Mina and Caplan were best friends and their relationship was really cool. They see each other through a lot and neither thinks the other will ever want more than what they have.

Caplan was a great guy. He's a teenage boy, so of course there's a lot of cluelessness going on. Feelings were really kind of foreign to him, but it was nice to see him come around. Mina was kind of a wallflower, but her new friends gave her more bravery. They were really cute together.

Thanks to Macmillan Audio and NetGalley for the audiobook. All thoughts are my own.

One of the most honest and spot-on high school romances I've read! Daisy Garrison connects her reader to Caplan, Mina, and the whole crew in a way that has the reader rooting for each one of them. Readers will easily relate to one of the characters and be able to quickly name peers in their own lives that match up with one of these graduating seniors. The audio book had a great narrator - easy to listen to and with varying voices for each of the characters.

Well I didn't love it. I felt the story didn't go anywhere.

I loved them as friends. I don't think the romance worked. He only wanted her when someone else wanted her and it didn't sit well for me.

I am a huge fan of coming of age books but I felt, not only do they hold each other back by being together, it wasn't even a natural progression.

It's not the writing either, I would definitely try another by the author, it just wasn't the right story for me.

3.5 stars though!

2.25 out of 5 stars

Thank you to Macmillan audio #macaudio2024 and NetGalley for this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

Unfortunately this book wasn’t for me. I generally love coming of age high school stories but this one didn’t feel the same to me. It also didn’t feel as light hearted as I was expecting it to be. I felt that there was growth with the character development and that was a good thing. Mina had lots of growth and I appreciated that. Caplan was a bit more frustrating because it took him longer to grow but that is normal for that age range so I felt that was accurate. I didn’t love all of the character dynamics but I do like that they had female friendships that were forged on page.

The narrators did a great job with the reading of the story and is largely a part of the reason I got through the book.

I also felt that this book had too much sexual content mentioned on page to be considered YA, in my opinion.

Please also keep in mind that there are potentially triggering topics in this story. I will list them here. If you do not want to see what those are then please skip this section: Death of a Parent (mentions), SA (mentions and flashback scene), Parent abandonment (mentions).

The nostalgia that this book brought! It reminded me of those last few summers of high school and college where you were just living life with your best friends and the biggest worry was if your crush was crushing on you back. Obviously some of the drama was childish, but that’s what it’s meant to be and represent those young moments. This was a perfect summer read!

I also loved the dual narration, it brings the story to life so well!!

In this complex, end of their senior year story, several teenagers attempt to figure things out between themselves and for their futures. Caplan and Mina have been friends since elementary school, but Hollis and Quinn also enter the friendship triangle/circle, making things complicated for everyone. This was one that grabbed my attention at the beginning, but then I lost interest about a third of the way in. So much high school drama, lots of sex, some drinking and pot smoking, discussion of assaults but no resolution or help for healing, and in general lots of crass language. The characters come off as neurodivergent and immature, as they work their way through various scenarios at the end of the school year. Maybe high schoolers would like this type of writing, but I would hope for better.

This book was very cute and brings you back to your high school days. The drama and the love young of high school was definitely spot on. If you're looking for a feel good high school romance this is a good option,

Thank you to the publishers, author and NetGalley for the free copy of this audio book.

This was a cute YA romance, the characters felt authentic and the narrators suited them. The teenage angst wasn't overdone which was nice. I enjoyed this one.

Audiobook Review - This is a great story about navigating senior year and coping with changing friendships as everyone prepares to move on to their next chapter. Dual narration was fantastic. This is a must have for all YA collections.

This book was so subtle that I am afraid that it won’t get the attention it deserves. The relationships are so fraught with drama and intense feelings, but they are also more reflective of how kids react to trauma and difficult relationships. I think that those responses are what sets this book apart. I also think it’s important for kids to see just how much goes on behind closed doors in families—even when you think you really know a person. What’s weird is how much I disliked the blurb for the book. I feel like it oversimplifies a lovely book and makes it seem like another cliché YA romance. It’s much more than that.

I was hesitant about the narrator because of the relationship to the author. I was so wrong. She did such a good job & provided a top quality narration to complement Jesse Aaronson’s performance!

This is sort of a tough one to rate. I enjoyed this story about two friends at the end of their senior year. Despite being complete opposites, Caplan (all around popular guy) and Mina (has been bullied bookworm) have been the best of friends since elementary school. Caplan is currently steady with his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Hollis. His good friend, Quinn asks if Cap minds if he asks Mina out. He says he doesn't, but as time goes by we see Cap struggle with it more than he expected.

Both Cap and Mina are children of single mothers (who are also best friends). Both are dealing with issues from their past. There is some depth to this story for sure. What I struggled with at times was the amount of sex, drugs, and alcohol throughout the book. While I know this is most likely part of reality for many high school seniors, it felt a bit over the top and too casual for me. It honestly felt like the book was written by a senior in high school currently going through her own teen drama. However, maybe that part is the strength of the book? You can really feel the teen angst here and I appreciated the conversations that Mina and Cap did have. Their openness with one another was heartwarming. I enjoyed the banter with this friend group and LOVED Hollis. She turned out to be one of my favorites by the end of the book.

If you are looking for a good YA romance with those Dawson Creek vibes, this one may be for you. I listened in audio format and enjoyed the dual POV. The narrators did a great job with both Mina and Cap. I enjoyed it and would read another of this author's books in the future.

This was such an amazing story of friendship and how it can turn into love. There are so many great moments that were such great examples of how to just be a friend. They were so emotionally touching without being unrealistic for teenagers. I love the evolution of their characters, both individually and together. Absolutely such a beautiful story that was able to maintain the humor and chaos that come with the teenage years.

I did have to double check the age recommendation for this book, which was 12-18. I would guess closer to 15-18. Some of the topics were pretty mature for a middle schooler, but would be ok for a high schooler..

I really loved the characters, even though they weren’t realistic. The characters are all high school
seniors, and are somehow extremely mature and self aware. If you can get over that, the story itself is rather adorable. I was so happy that it ended the way it did!

Very cute summer YA! I’m sure I would have loved this in HS, and as an adult, it was still a very enjoyable book to read outside on the deck. Very dramatic and cliche and all that, but I don’t expect any different. I’d recommend!

4⭐️