Expected publication: June 4th 2019
Pages: 400
Seventeen year old CJ Katsuyama helps after school at her aunt Hannah's flower shop. Her mom is a true career woman and is almost always at work. Business has not been very good lately for the flower shop, but when her mom announces the plan to sell the shop, CJ and Hannah are not happy about it. Certainly not when her mom tells them the party interested in the shop is the McAllister corporation. The McAllisters have a history that is connected to them in a not so good way; back in the days, a McAllister swindled CJ’s grandparents when thousands of Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during WWII. Thew where forced to give their land and shops to the McAllisters so selling the shop to them is just wrong in every way. Will they be able to prevent her mom from selling the shop? Together with a group of high school students, they try to make a statement of the practices in the past from the McAllisters.
Beside the shop, CJ's high school life is busy. Her best friend Emily has a crush on one of the most popular girls in school, Brynn. Emily doesn't know though Brynn's true nature, and CJ didn't tell her that afwul reaction of Brynn when Emily secretly gave her a valentine's day cookie. Things take a turn for the worst when Brynn declares herself the spokesperson for the cause against the McAllisters. Soon there is a riff that split's CJ's whole life, her family, school..everything. But she knows, Katsuyama's never quit, and she will neither..
I truly liked everything about this book!! First of all, it is written in a very nice way and it is paced just the right way for this story. The characters are really amazing, CJ is an interesting and likeable main character, and I loved the love interest in the book between Emily and Brynn, and it was nice that it wasn't without obstacles but everything fell into place in the end. What I also found interesting was the mission how CJ and her friends and fellow students wanted to make some justice for the shady past of the McAllisters, that was also worked out very well by the author and it was good how it took place and ended with some kind of more awareness on the McAllister side.
I think this is one of the best new books of this year, I already loved Misa Sugiura's previous book It's Not Like It's A Secret, which was already a very good and original book, but this one topped it, and I hope we get to see more amazing reads by this author!!
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