Main Character: Kayla
Love Interest: Jared, Benoit
Series: The Oracle of Dating, Book 2
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As the “oracle of dating,” Kayla is supposed to have all the answers about love and relationships. She’s supposed to have the perfect relationship. But now that Jared is “taking a step back,” Kayla feels like a total fraud.
So the expert on dating starts taking her own rebound advice—and some from her friends—and stops moping around. Yeah, there are other possibilities out there—including the beyond-cute French foreign exchange student she’s showing around town.
But when controversy erupts about the Oracle’s advice, Kayla is sent reeling once again. Will anything work out for her this year? Yet when her friends start seriously needing the Oracle, Kayla begins to focus on what really matters: Viv, Sharese, Amy and Ryan, her true-blue buds. And suddenly, everything starts making sense again….
Earlier this year, I read and adored The Oracle of Dating by Allison van Diepen and was super excited to see that another book featuring the Oracle was coming out soon. When I saw this on NetGalley, I had to read it and review it here on the blog.
Allison van Diepen has penned another winner for me.
Reading this book was like catching up with old friends. Lots of things pop off in this book and though my heart was broken a little bit at the beginning, van Diepen does a great job of showing Kayla bounce back and put her life back together after heartbreak.
Over the course of this book, we see Kayla finding herself single after being the other part of a couple for the last six months. Her and Jared were getting too serious and Jared needed space to get his head on straight after not getting into his dream art school because he had been too busy being Kayla’s boyfriend that he had let things slip a bit.
After finding herself single, Kayla throws herself back into the mix of things with her friends and that was great to see. Kayla has a strong support system at home and with her friends and I thought she was lucky. She was lucky to have a solid group of friends who loved her and wanted her to be happy, who also had her back through thick and thin. She was also very lucky to have the support of her parents. Her Mom worked a lot but she had a good relationship with her step-dad and I thought it was cute. She also had a great relationship with her sister and I adored the two of them together.
When her parents take on the hosting of a foreign exchange student from France, Kayla doesn’t want to be bothered until he shows up at their doorstep and is totally hot with a melt in your mouth accent that sets Kayla all aflutter. Before Kayla knows what is what, she has forgotten about Jared and begins to enjoy herself again.
All of that comes to an end when Benoit (the exchange student) goes back home and Kayla has to face life as a single teenager once again.
Watching Kayla learn the life lessons that teenage girls learn was a treat because you saw the ups and the downs and through it all, you were cheering her on. Van Diepen did a great job of penning the second book in this series and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I would definitely recommend this book to fans of the first book because this book is just too good to pass up.
..and that’s your scoop!
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