ROMANCE

What’s in a Kiss?

Putnam. Jul. 2024. 384p. ISBN 9780593545171. pap. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
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Can one moment drastically alter your entire life? Liv Dusk has been asking herself that since prom, when she was humiliated by her date, Jake Glasswell, after they almost kissed. Ten years later, he’s a successful TV personality, and she’s a Lyft driver whose acting career and love life never took off, but she has a solid relationship with her mom and her best friend, Masha. When Liv and Jake see each other, for the first time in years, at their mutual best friends’ wedding, things quickly go even further off the rails, and as Liv glares at Jake during the vows, she suddenly finds herself in an alternate reality: one where she and Jake kissed at prom and are madly in love—but Liv’s best friend and mother no longer speak to her. Liv will have to choose between her previous life and the love of her life. While some elements of Liv’s new reality are underdeveloped in this sweet and funny novel, readers will be rooting for Liv and Jake to fall in love in every universe.
VERDICT This second-chance, enemies-to-lovers romance from Kate (By Any Other Name) is sexy and swoon-worthy.
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