Operation Prom Date
Tactics in Flirting #1
by Cindi Madsen
Synopsis:
Kate ships tons of fictional couples, but IRL her OTP is her and Mick, the hot quarterback she’s crushed on since, like, forever. With only one semester left of senior year, it’s now or never if she wants to land him in time for prom. Since she’s flirtationally challenged, she enlists Cooper Callihan, the guy who turned popular seemingly overnight but who used to be a good friend.
Cooper lives and breathes rowing, but his partner just broke his wrist. When he remembers Kate’s good with a set of oars, he strikes a deal: help him train, and he’ll make sure her crush notices her. Only he didn’t know how addicting spending time with her would be. Or how the more successful the Operation is, the more jealousy he experiences.
The mission has been set. The troops have their marching orders. But what if the target is the wrong guy all along?
Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book contains stargazing, accidental swimming, and poker swindling. This kissing practice will melt your ereader…and give you a new couple to ship.
Review:
So much swoony, feel-good adorableness here!
Operation Prom Date is everything that is good about YA romances–a slightly geeky, fairly awkward heroine; a seriously nice (and ripped! bonus…) hero; a friends-to-something more pairing–throw in the perfect prom dress and a bearded dragon, and I’m not sure what else you could possibly want 🙂
Often the romantic-tension-could-be-fixed-with-a-conversation-type plots drive me crazy, but here it actually worked. Kate and Cooper were both trying to stick to the plan (he helps her land her dream prom date, she helps him train for the rowing contest while his regular partner is unable to, both are super-adorable as they use military terms to refer to their mission a la what Kate used to do with her dad) and every time one of them started to get other ideas, Ms. Madsen gave them a perfectly reasonable reason for them to deny it. Even when I was thinking Gah! You’re each other’s OTP! Wake up already! and trying to come up with ship names that didn’t just sound like their actual names (fortunately, Cooper did a much better job with that than I did) I still loved every minute that I spent with these two.
And then the ending? Made every second of semi-frustration totally worth it.
Anxiously awaiting book #2!
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
