The Summer Love Strategy: A Novel

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Ray Stoeves Summer Love Strategy is a sweet and swoony YA rom-com about two friends making a pact to find summer romance like theyve seen in the moviesand finding love where they least expect it along the way!

Hayley always has a crush. The problem is, her crushes never like her back. After her latest unrequited lovea girl from her basketball teamgets a boyfriend, she decides shes done falling for girls who are unavailable. Her best friend, Talia, wants romance too, but rarely gets crushes on anyone, and shes tired of watching Hayley get her heart stomped on over and over. So the two girls make a pact: theyll help each other find summer love by putting themselves in situations that always lead to romance in movies.

To help carry out their summer love strategy, they make a list of all the places they could find their real-life rom-com: the beach, the Pride parade, the pool, a MUNA concert, and a party. But as they go to each place and try to find the one, it seems like they just cant catch a breakthey dont know how to talk to cute strangers, someone mistakes Hayley as straight, and Hayley does a truly unfortunate DIY haircut (that she cannot be held responsible forit was a crisis!). But when Talia and Hayley finally manage to score dates, will they be able to get out of their own way and really dive into the romances they deserve Or is summer love not as far off as Hayley thought

Reviews

A love story within a love story [...] Stoeve explores what it means to find new ways to love a person you know by heartand they tackle it with such specificity and care. * Becky Albertalli, New York Times Bestselling Author of Simon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda *
Gorgeously captures that bubbling, fizzy, all-encompassing energy of a crush becoming so much more. * Jason June, New York Times bestselling author *
An endearing portrait of the ups and downs of crushes, first dates, and falling in love. * Kelly Quindlen, author of She Drives Me Crazy *
Readers will appreciate that neurodivergence is normalized and represented positively...A charming friends-to-lovers summer romance. * Kirkus *
Readers will feel like theyre in a teen summer romance themselves. * Booklist *

Author Bio

Ray Stoeve is the author of the young adult novel Between Perfect and Real, which received a starred review and was a 2021 Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, and Arden Grey. They also contributed to the young adult anthology Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance. They received a 20162017 Made at Hugo House Fellowship and created the YA/MG Trans and Nonbinary Voices Masterlist, a database that tracks all books in those age categories written by trans authors about trans characters. When theyre not writing, they can be found gardening, making art in other mediums, or hiking their beloved Pacific Northwest.