Just Visiting, Dahlia Adler
Just Visiting, Dahlia Adler
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Just Visiting

Author: Dahlia Adler

Narrator: Shaina Summerville, Lori Felipe-Barkin

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/04/2022


Synopsis

Reagan and Victoria are sure about two things in their future: they’re going to be college roommates, and they’re going to get out of Charytan, Kansas, together. But as they go on a series of college visits, the two begin to realize their visions of the future may not align, and as the secrets they’ve been keeping from the other slowly come to light, they learn they’re not exactly the yin and yang they thought they were. Suddenly, neither one is sure what the next four years hold, or whether they’ll be spending them together at all.
Reagan Forrester wants out - out of her trailer park, out of reach of her freeloading mother, and out of the shadow of the relationship that made her the pariah of Charytan, Kansas.
Victoria Reyes wants in - in to a fashion design program and a sorority, in to the arms of a cute guy who doesn't go to Charytan High, and in to a city where she won't stand out for being Mexican.
One thing the polar-opposite best friends do agree on is that wherever they go, they're going together. But when they set off on a series of college visits at the start of their senior year, they quickly see that the future doesn't look quite like they expected. After two years of near-solitude following the betrayal of the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart, Reagan falls hard and fast for a Battlestar Galactica-loving, brilliant smile-sporting pre-med prospective... only to learn she's set herself up for heartbreak all over again. Meanwhile, Victoria realizes everything she's looking for might be in the very place they've sworn to leave.
As both Reagan and Victoria struggle to learn who they are and what they want in the present, they discover just how much they don't know about each other's pasts. And when each learns what the other's been hiding, they'll have to decide whether their friendship has a future.

About Dahlia Adler

Dahlia Adler is an editor of mathematics by day, the overlord of LGBTQReads by night, and a Young Adult author at every spare moment in between. She is the editor of several anthologies and the author of many novels, including Cool for the Summer and Home Field Advantage. She lives in New York with her family and an obscene number of books.


Reviews

Full 4.5 stars (because you know my 5 stars are like the rarest of rare things I hand out) I really enjoyed Dahlia’s debut Behind The Scenes but Just Visiting blew me away and is definitely one of my most favorite contemporary YA books I’ve read this year! It’s just such an authentic story about frie......more

Goodreads review by Tiff

Review originally posted on Mostly YA Lit: Review: I've been following Dahlia on Twitter for about two years now, and she is fiercely passionate about young adult literature, diversity, feminism, and many of the things I care about, so I adore her feed. Just Visiting, though, is the first of her boo......more