About the Book
Two high school enemies must reunite for a road trip inspired by their grandparents’ broken engagement in this electric debut romance.
Noelle Shepard is unemployed, living with her parents, and grieving the loss of her beloved grandmother when she discovers decades-old photos of Gram and a smitten man, tucked alongside a love letter. She creates a TikTok to search for the mystery man, which goes viral, and she’s shocked when his grandson responds—a man who happens to be her high school nemesis, Theo Spencer.
Noelle refuses to let Theo’s annoying accomplishments in adulthood—or his sexy smirk—stand in the way of meeting his grandfather and unlocking the secrets he knew about her gram as a young woman. When she learns that their plans to elope were thwarted, Noelle decides to take the honeymoon road trip they planned but never got to carry out. There’s a catch, though: Paul, Theo’s grandfather, asks to come with her, and he insists that Theo join them.
It’ll be a miracle if they make it through the trip without Noelle throwing Theo out of the moving car—or the bed they end up sharing. As the miles tick by, the tension simmers hotter between them…until she discovers that Theo’s hiding a secret that could cause their tenuous relationship to end before it can restart.
My Review
You can’t wind down your summer without adding You, With a View to your reading list. From a viral Tiktok video to high school enemies on a road trip together, this book is a modern rom-com with spice, heart, and healing. Noelle was easy to become friends with, still struggling with the death of her grandmother and also at a crossroads in her professional life, which becomes a perfect storm of turning to social media when she discovers her grandmother loved someone else before she was married to her grandfather. When Theo comes forward to say the young man in the photographs is his grandmother – still alive and willing to talk to Noelle about the past – the former enemies have no choice but to come together. Grandpa Paul makes for an excellent secondary character, and the relationship he forms with Noelle was so touching. The premise of the road trip tugged at my heart, and I was cheering the threesome on at each stop they made.
The ending about broke me – in a good way, and was so over the top sweet it might even have this jaded blogger believing in love again. Theo and Noelle’s relationship has the perfect mixture of sweetness with some sizzle, and gave me plenty of laughs and some aww moments along the way. The love story within the love story played on all my emotions, and I found myself wiping away a few tears here and again while reading. More than that, the characters all felt very real, from questioning themselves and their abilities, what they were really meant to do, and healing through some very traumatic and tragic situations. One of my favorite reads of the year!
5 stars
