Hi friends, happy Monday! I hope you’re all doing well! Today I’m posting my review of Kasie West’s novel Love, Life and the List.

Love, Life and the List by: Kasie West: Abby is an artist, and everyone around her thinks she’s amazing. So when she tries to get into the museum’s art show, she’s told she’s too young and that her art doesn’t have heart. So, in order to gain some heart and grow, she creates this list to accomplish throughout the summer with her best friend Cooper, who she’s trying to get over. This novel was fast-paced, and the plot was intriguing but the characters weren’t really it. The reader liked how much the characters, especially our main one, Abby, grew and developed over the course of the novel, but they couldn’t help how boring they felt. Plus, the whole Abby/Cooper will they, won’t they dance felt flat; there was no chemistry between the two of them. The reader was actually rooting for Abby to continue her growth and move away from Cooper. Cooper as a character was generic and left nothing to really swoon over. His realization towards his feelings was a little dumb and very much clueless, which wasn’t cute. It was used to move the plot and to give this the cleanest happily ever after ending ever and it just felt overdone and didn’t feel real in any sense. Even the secondary characters were just background white noise; the only character who really stood out was Lacey, she had spunk and vibrancy to her, she really stood out. There is a sequel so hopefully we get to see more of Lacey in the future. As for the rest of this novel, the story was actually pretty captivating because following the list was exciting and the act of trying something new was fun. Seeing how it changed the main characters for good or bad this reader really liked everything that they learned; it made them stronger characters, although not interesting ones, unfortunately. In the end, this wasn’t a bad novel, it had a lot of potential, this reader just didn’t exactly enjoy the characters.