Book Review: Betting On You

Happy Friday! I’m so ready for the weekend.

This week I read Betting On You – the latest YA romcom by Lynn Painter. I swear Lynn Painter never disappoints! And she does both adult and YA so well!

Betting On You follows Bailey and Charlie, both seniors in high school who actually met a few years earlier when they were sitting next to each other on a plane. Bailey found Charlie irritating and Charlie loved riling her up on the flight. Over the years they saw each other once around town and now they’re both working at Planet Funnn – a new hotel that has an indoor amusement park and other fun things like a movie theater and more.

When they had met a few years earlier, Charlie told Bailey he doesn’t believe men and women can be friends. Not believing that to be true, Bailey has no problem trying to be Charlie’s friend when they become coworkers. Bonding over common interests and both being children of divorce, the two become super close. Their new closeness also involves Charlie helping Bailey drive a wedge between her mom and her mom’s new boyfriend who seems to be over all the time. Add in fun banter and some fake dating and a little bit of emotion and heartache and you’ve got Betting On you!

Lynn Painter does banter so well and the banter between Bailey and Charlie was so good! I loved the humor and the tension between the two of them. I loved both of them so much and just want to bottle them up! Lynn Painter recently came out with a short bonus story and it takes place on that day when Charlie and Bailey had been on the plane together. Charlie arrives at his cousin’s house and his cousin is none other than Wes Bennett from Better Than the Movies! Anyway, Charlie was funny and so swoony like Wes.

The book was so good. It was funny, emotional, and heartwarming and also made me tear up!

Read this if you want a YA romcom with the friends to lovers and fake dating tropes and lots of witty banter!

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