Never Vacation with Your Ex, Emily Wibberley
Never Vacation with Your Ex, Emily Wibberley
List: $25.00 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.50

Never Vacation with Your Ex

Author: Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka

Narrator: Phoebe Strole

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023


Synopsis

The Summer I Turned Pretty meets People We Meet on Vacation in a YA second chance romance where the rules for getting over an ex turn out to be more complicated than they seem.

Seventeen-year-old volleyball star Kaylee Jordan lives a life of player rankings, constant training, and a carefully curated social media full of followers watching to see if she'll go pro out of high school like her famous mom. Her one refuge, and the thing she looks forward to every summer? The vacation her family spends in Malibu with the Freeman-Yus. This year, there’s only one problem: Kaylee and their son, Dean, dated for the past three months, and Kaylee just unceremoniously dumped him. Hoping to spare them the worst summer ever, Kaylee comes to Dean with her unconventional solution: she’s going to walk him through her rules for getting over an ex. When Dean grudgingly cooperates, Kaylee’s got her work cut out for her. But helping Dean follow her own rules starts becoming difficult when the pressures of Kaylee’s family legacy and perfect life start to feel less like a plan and more like a prison…and amid warm California nights and stolen laughs, Kaylee feels herself falling for Dean for the same reasons and some new ones. With their trip coming to an end, Kaylee has to make the complicated choice between doing what’s expected and taking a (second) chance on love.

About The Author

Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka are the authors of Always Never Yours, If I'm Being Honest, Time of Our Lives, What's Not to Love, With and Without You, as well as the adult romance The Roughest Draft (Berkeley, 2022). Raised by a school librarian, Austin's always had a passion for books. He met and fell in love with Emily in high school, graduated from Harvard, and is now a practicing attorney. Emily, whose parents are screenwriters, attended Princeton University where she wrote the first novel in her self-published YA fantasy trilogy, The Last Oracle, which was featured in USA Today and was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Now married, Emily and Austin live in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jessica on April 21, 2023

i aaaaalmost rounded this up to 3 stars just because of how much i really wanted to love this but, the more i thought about it, the more i realised i just didnt enjoy it. which is shocking because ive always had fun with the stories EW and ASB have written together. some definitely more than others,......more

Goodreads review by Mallory on April 09, 2023

I like young adult books and I like rom-coms so this seemed like a perfect pick. Unfortunately I guess romance in the teen drama world missed the mark for me with this one. I had a hard time liking any of the characters (Dean’s little sisters were ok). I will say it is a light, quick read, but I was......more

Goodreads review by Maddalena (Taylor's Version) on July 02, 2024

3.5/4 Marking what's probably my 1000th book as rtc......more

Goodreads review by BernLuvsBooks on April 04, 2023

3.5 ⭐️ - A second chance YA romance about navigating familial expectations, dreams/desires and young love.......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on March 31, 2023

Ok, so at first glance at the reviews, I can see what people are getting at. Kaylee doesn’t come off as the likable, peppy, sporty teen you would probably expect in a YA romance. Instead, what you get with her is a look at a teen facing increasing pressure and scrutiny as she pursues her dreams of a......more


Quotes

"A moving subplot about how Kaylee lives in her three-time Olympic gold-medalist mother's shadow adds depth to her development, and it's refreshing to read a romance in which it's the girl who's the elite jock. A breezy, beachy teen love story." --Kirkus 
  
“Developing rifts between Kaylee's and Dean's mothers and dilemmas confronting Dean's younger sister add further emotional depth to this frothy, sports-forward beach read by married creators Wibberley and Siegemund-Broka” --PW