Book Review: Woke Up Like This

My latest YA romcom read was Woke Up Like This by Amy Lea. I’ve read Amy Lea’s previous two books which were adult romcoms and I loved both of those so I was interested to see how I’d like her YA romcom and I loved it!

This novel was such a fun read, but also had some emotional elements. The book follows Charlotte Wu, a high school senior just weeks away from graduating. Charlotte has always been very organized and plans out everything. She has always taken school and her future very seriously. J.T. Renner is her nemesis. They share a lot of mutual friends, but Charlotte can’t stand J.T. She always feels like he’s purposely doing things to get under her skin. For example, she’s always planned to be the student council president her senior year. She had everything planned out and set up and at the last minute popular Renner decides to run and easily wins. The main reason she doesn’t like Renner? When they were in 9th grade, she had a crush on him and he asked her to homecoming and then canceled on her at the very last minute.

Now J.T. and Charlotte as president and vice president of the senior class have to work closely together for senior week activities and decorating for prom. One day when J.T. and Charlotte are decorating for prom, Charlotte falls off a ladder and right on top of Renner. The two wake up and are suddenly 30 years old and married to each other!

Did they time travel? Is this a very realistic dream? Charlotte and J.T. must work together to figure out a way back home and along the way they learn more about each other and how they really feel about each other.

I loved this book so much more than I was expecting. I loved Charlotte and J.T. and so much of the book was relatable, especially about teenage friendships and how sometimes the people you think you’ll be friends with forever are not meant to be forever friends and no big fight has to happen necessarily but sometimes people grow apart. Parts of the book were emotional too with things Charlotte and Renner were going through personally, but the way the rivals turned friends are there for one another was so good.

Read this if you want a YA romcom with the enemies to lovers trope.

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