FINDING JUPITER BY KELIS ROWER
Paperback published by Walker 2nd June 2022
Pages 336
ISBN 9781529500639
NOT EVERY LOVE STORY IS WRITTEN IN THE STARS.
THIS BOY’S GONNA WANT TO LOVE ME. I CAN TELL. MY HEART BRAKES FOR HIM. BECAUSE I’M NOT A GIRL TO LOVE.
RAY has no time for romance. She’s Queen of the roller rink, writes found poetry, and has her eyes set on her own independent future.
ORION looks like the jock his father wants him to be, but really he’s a hopeless romantic. When he spots Ray, it feels like the stars have aligned.
But could the past stand in the way of love, and cross their stars forever.
MY REVIEW
My biggest shout out today, Ooh bless! Finding Jupiter, is such a beautiful unputdownable romantic tale, of young love!
This story reminds me of what it was like being young and falling madly in love with a guy at first sight.
Young readers will adore this sweet romantic story and adult will have memories of their first love, or falling in love with Mr right.
Ray Jr is a tall girl from Memphis with braids, that likes finding poetry in the pages of The Great Gatsby.
She doesn’t remember her daddy as he died when she was little. All she knows about her father is he liked Bob Marley and Caribbean food.
The one thing Ray is adamant about she’s not hooking up with anybody this summer. It’s a no summer love this year. But she is entertained by romance, just that Ray sees romance as a waste of time.
Orion and his best friend Mo, go skating. There Ray catches Orion’s eye, all he sees is the way Ray’s braids dangle down her back as she twists and turns, skating and all he can think, she’s pretty amazing.
Orion doesn’t know why girls giggle when they first start to talk to him, maybe it’s because he is attractive, and girls want to impress him by laughing when he talks to them.
Bri and Ray are best friends as they go to the same boarding school and share everything together.
It’s Ray’s birthday and Bri makes sure Orion and Mo know.
Before you know it Ray and Orion go round skating together, and well this must be love as Orion can’t take his eyes off her. Yes ! I think there is love at first sight for Ray, and Orion.
Totally one hundred percent recommend this book to all that love sweet romantic novels.
I would like to thank Walker for sending me this beautiful printed paperback copy to read and review
About author Kelis Rowe
Kelis Rowe
Kelis Rowe is a debut author and alum of Pitch Wars, the volunteer-run mentoring programme for aspiring writers. Kelis’s passion for writing contemporary YA comes from her own experiences growing up as a Black teenager in Memphis and yearning to see her experience of first love, its scope and its nature, on the pages of the books she read. She is now based in Texas, USA.
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Sounds like a brilliant, fun read. Oh to be young again!
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I like stories of first love. Lovely review!
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