Seven Percent of Ro Devereux
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Ellen O'Clover
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Fans of Emma Lord, Rachel Lynn Solomon, and Alex Light will love this clever, charming, and poignant debut novel with a masterful slow-burn romance at its core about a girl who must decide whether to pursue her dreams or preserve her relationships, including a budding romance with her ex-best friend, when an app she created goes viral.
Ro Devereux can predict your future. Or, at least, the app she built for her senior project can.
Working with her neighbor, a retired behavioral scientist, Ro created an app called MASH, designed around the classic game Mansion Apartment Shack House, that can predict a person’s future with 93% accuracy. The app will even match users with their soulmates. Though it was only supposed to be a class project, MASH quickly takes off and gains the attention of tech investors.
Ro’s dream is to work in Silicon Valley, and she’ll do anything to prove to her new backing company—and the world—that the app works. So it’s a huge shock when the app says her soulmate is Miller, her childhood best friend with whom she had a friendship-destroying fight three years ago.
Now thrust into a fake dating scenario, Ro and Miller must address the years of pain between them if either of them will have any chance of achieving their dreams. And as the app takes on a life of its own, Ro sees that it’s affecting people in ways she never expected—and if she can’t regain control, it might take her and everything she believes in down with it.
©2023 Ellen O'Clover (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers
I think what it boils down to is that this book suffers from an identity crisis.
If it wants to be a story about loss and friendship and grief, then have the character feel those emotions and not sweep the impact of someone’s death under the rug.
If you want it to be a romance, then give us *actual* romance. Give us real moments of connection in the present, not just summarized (!) backstory in which the love interest cares about the protagonist, who acts selfish and unpleasant the whole way through. I kept wishing for some acknowledgement of her mistakes, but she only ever addresses past behaviors internally when she’s frustrated about how they’re making *her* life harder.
Especially at the end. She makes everything about herself; there’s no growth. Yes, teenagers have a tendency to be self-obsessed, and that’s cool. But again, it needs to be addressed accordingly. Some accountability would’ve been nice.
The prose was beautiful, I’ll say that. I just wish there’d been less summary and more of the story unfolding. It messed up the pacing.
And what’s with the weird “before I can look away, they [two queer people] kiss”??? Completely rubbed me the wrong way.
I didn’t buy into the supposed deep connection between the protagonist and the love interest. It just wasn’t there, really. She was such a jerk. Justice for Miller!
In terms of the plot that did happen, it felt contrived and unrealistic. A real disappointment of a book.
Disappointing, to say the least
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