liv ❁'s Reviews > Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute

3.5/5
This book was actually really cute I just wasn’t the target audience. In that I mean that Hibbert captured a high school romance perfectly and I felt like an old lady looking into something I no longer fully understood.
Our main characters Brad and Celine were adorable but a little immature (obviously it’s because they’re 17 and Hibbert is capturing being a teenager perfectly, but it was still annoying to read from them at times). Childhood best friends to rivals to friends to lovers??? I love it!! Hibbert’s banter is unmatched as usual and I found myself giggling a lot. The cast of side characters also had me smiling 24/7.
Celine is a super relatable emotionally avoidant conspiracy theorist on tiktok and Brad is the popular sports playing bi guy with OCD and some self esteem issues and the conversations that were had were really deep and important especially for high schoolers.
I really wish we got more of the camp and felt like everything was a bit rushed. I’d recommend reading her other books over this one.
While I loved the romance and the banter, I felt Hibbert’s writing was a little weaker in this compared to her adult books. I am blaming this on it being a YA romance and would still recommend it to people interested! Especially teens.