Is honesty the best policy especially when you are risking losing something you love? If you have looked into the book Let Me List The Ways or if you have read the summary on the back of the book you would have probably seen a question like this. This is one of the problems or topics that are in this amazing book.
Let me list the ways is a romance about a girl named Mackenzie Clark falling in love with her childhood best friend Nolan Walker and wondering if he feels the same about her. The whole book is about if these two friends can turn into something more and if so is it worth possibly ruining the amazing friendship they already have. The two have done everything together since grade school but they are now both seniors in high school and they are trying to make as many memories as possible before they head off to college. To do this they create one of their amazing lists which is a “Senior Year Bucket List” of everything they want to do before they leave. You will read about adventures they go through like beach days, toilet papering someone's house, or getting matching tattoos, as well as struggles. One of the main struggles the two deal with is a disease, type 1 diabetes which Mackenzie has. Mackenzie shares some of her concerns, insecurities, and struggles about the disease throughout the book. And as you will learn Nolan is always there to support her through it whether that's defending her, being more educated about the disease, or always carrying hershey kisses around. Nolan also has struggles of his own like an injury that might mess with his future. Together Nolan and Mackenzie put each other's happiness before their own and try to make their last year together amazing while dealing with the idea of if they could be something more.
I overall liked this book because it was cute and there wasn’t anything too intense in it. It was refreshing to see a romance about teenagers that was still wholesome in a way. I wish there was a little more action or more turns or twists that made it a little less predictable but overall I still think it was a great story. If I could change one thing about it, it would be about making the ending longer. The story shared so many details about everything in their lives and then when we finally got to the ending it wrapped up the whole story in only a couple of pages. Without spoiling it completely, all I can say is that I wish it would have shown how their relationship changed after the trip. I think if you're looking for a quick romance book to read that this would be great, but if you are looking for something more emotional or intense then this might not be the book for you. If I was giving it a rating out of 5 stars, I would give it a 4 or 4.5.
If you are looking for some basic information about the book the author of Let me list the ways is Sarah White and the book was published on August 7, 2018. This book is not a part of a series so far (I wish it were) and the copy I had contained 293 pages with 31 chapters.