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Title: Foes & Cons

Author: Carrie Aarons

Page count: 250

Published: April 27th, 2021

Publisher: Self Published

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Received: From the author in exchange for an honest review

Rating: 4/5

Sawyer Roarke was my best friend.

Growing up, our families were inseparable. We spent summers vacationing at the beach. In the school yard, it was us against the world. Then puberty hit, and we skated the thin line of staying buddies, or becoming more.

Until I accidentally found the pros and cons list he made about whether or not to date me. And there were definitely more bullet points on the no side. Acting out of rage and hurt, I embarrassed him in the most public way possible. Now, we’re enemies.

We’ve spent the last two years tearing each other to pieces. Everyone knows that Blair and Sawyer hate the ground the other walks on, and unfortunately, I got the unpopular end of the stick while he became Mr. Prom King.

Until senior year starts, and I’m tired of running scared. For the first time ever, I stand up to the golden boy with the whip-smart tongue. As the challenges and dares pick up speed, hearts start to fall and feelings get entangled. Despite my initial discovery, I wonder if being caught by each other wouldn’t be so bad.

Except Sawyer has no idea what I found all those years ago. And if the truth comes out about why I pitted us against each other, not only will he add one more con to his list … but he can add my broken heart as well.

This is a new author to me and when I read the synopsis, I know that I wanted to read it. I thought that this was a great childhood enemy to lover’s romance. the cool thing was that their parents are business partners. As they got older and grew closer, they started to get feelings for one another and all that comes to a halt when one night Blair finds something of Sawyer’s that wasn’t meant to be seen and it changes their relationship drastically.
Blair is the nerdy girl who has insecurities just like everyone else and when she finds this note that sawyer wrote she was upset and rightfully, so I understand why she was as mad as she was. Sawyer is the star of the soccer team; he got angry with Blair and did somethings that he’s not proud of, but he was just doing it out of hate even though I did get when he was coming from.
I loved reading the growth that these two had, people make mistakes and Carrie was able to make this a sweet high school romance.
(Goes and buys books from this author.)