Rowena’s review of Biggest Flirts (Superlatives #1) by Jennifer Echols.
Tia and Will’s lives get flipped upside down when they’re voted Yearbook’s Biggest Flirts in this sassy novel from the author of Endless Summer and The One That I Want.
Tia just wants to have fun. She’s worked hard to earn her reputation as the life of the party, and she’s ready for a carefree senior year of hanging out with friends and hooking up with cute boys. And her first order of business? New guy Will. She can’t get enough of his Midwestern accent and laidback swagger.
As the sparks start to fly, Will wants to get serious. Tia’s seen how caring too much has left her sisters heartbroken, and she isn’t interested in commitment. But pushing Will away drives him into the arms of another girl. Tia tells herself it’s no big deal…until the yearbook elections are announced. Getting voted Biggest Flirts with Will is, well, awkward. They may just be friends, but their chemistry is beginning to jeopardize Will’s new relationship—and causing Tia to reconsider her true feelings. What started as a lighthearted fling is about to get very complicated…
Jennifer Echols is hit or miss with me. I have really loved some of her books but I have really hated some of her books as well. I’m happy to say that this book was a total hit for me.
Biggest Flirts is the first book in the Superlatives series and it follows Tia and Will as they fumble their way to that happily for now. It’s a YA contemporary novel that was cute, fun and funny. The characters are wonderfully flawed and the story moves at a great pace and it wasn’t hard to fall into this story at all. Tia is a big time flirt, the resident party girl and when she meets new boy Will, he wants to be in a relationship with her. Tia’s not a relationship girl though. She’s a hit it and quit it kind of girl and that works for her. But there’s something about Will that is getting under her skin.
Will moved from Minnesota to Florida for his senior year and he’s not exactly happy about it but when he meets Tia at a party, he’s mighty interested. Both Tia and Will are on the drumline in their school band and they stand right next to each other and during practice, they spend a whole lot of time getting yelled at for flirting.
Watching these two get closer and closer is a lot of fun. Echols does a great job of making Tia connectable with readers and Will was a great love interest. They’re both flawed and do really stupid things but it was still an enjoyable ride to be apart of. I really liked getting to know both Tia and Will and meeting the other characters in the series was pretty great too.
I’m super excited to read the next book in this series and I’m crossing my fingers that I will enjoy it just as much as I did this one.
Grade: 3.5 out of 5
This book is available from Simon Pulse. You can purchase it here or here in e-format. This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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