Happy pub week sam.markum!! Samantha Markum does it again and has written what could be the best summer YA read for 2023. ☀️🌊🏝 I knew from the moment I finished This May End Badly that I would be reading whatever came next from Markum. Her sophomore novel You Wouldn't Dare replicates the same brilliant characterization and emotional depth from her debut and delivers a tender and relatable friends to lovers romance that brought me back to the days I used to devour Sarah Dessen books. There are two things Markum does exceptionally well in her writing. The first is her ability to create beautifully messy female main characters, that you make you want to cheer for them just as much as cry with them. JN is far from perfect and her flaws are both endearing and frustrating. Her journey in this book was incredibly relatable and had me hooked every step of the way. I will attend the Juniper Nash Cry Fest any day. Markum also develops the most endearing found family. Both of her novels n...