Published March 4th 2019
#Contemporary, young adult, Hight school
3/5*
"Kiss and Break Up" is the first book from "Magnolia Cove" series but it can be read as a standalone. To find out more about Jackson and Willa, or about Daphne and Lars, you must read the next books in the series, because each book tells the story of one couple.
Dash and Peggy have known each other from a young age and because their mothers were best friends, they grew together and they've also been friends all their life. Peggy is shy and a late bloomer and Dash is always surrounded by eager girls and he is present at all high school parties.
As the senior year of high school begins, Peggy finds herself wanting to experiment with life as an average teenage girl: she wants to fall in love, to kiss a boy * It doesn't count that Dash kissed her when they were in preschool, just to say that he was her first kiss*, and to have a social life.
As she starts going out more and the guys are paying her more attention, Dash is more and more preoccupied to keep the guys away from her, feeling overprotective because he believes that she, as his best friend, deserves better than the guys at their high school. When a boy is showing interest, Peggy is accepting to go out with him, but Dash becomes more controlling and he starts to sabotage all Peggy's efforts to date the guy.
Because Peggy was never kissed and she considers herself inexperienced, she accepts Dash's help and she is practicing kissing him. Because one little kiss changes everything, their relationship becomes blurry and Peggy must decide if she wants Dash in the friend zone or not, because apparently, Dash realized sooner that they belong together.
“Who the hell do you think you are?” “Yours, but apparently, it’s taking some time for you to get the memo.”
“It was official. I’d fallen for my best friend, and she was breaking my black fucking heart.”
Mistakes happen, Peggy is feeling like Dash broke her heart *but if you ask me, Dash did nothing wrong, because they weren't together at the time of Dash's mistake* but in the end, all is good.
I like Ella Fields but this book was a little dull. It was very predictable and it reminded me of Elle Kennedy's book, " The Deal". I expected more angst, and probably more drama, knowing what Ella Fields writes.
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