Title: All the Stars Align
Author: Gretchen Schreiber
Genre: YA
Rating: 4 out of 5
All the women in Piper’s family know their true love at first sight, complete with butterflies, heart eyes, and a gut instinct. The kind of fated love that lasts forever. Piper grew up with her ancestors’ epic love stories repeated like fairy tales, and yearns for the day she’ll start her own. Already singled out in her family due to her physical disability, Piper collects a second strike against her when her parents announce their divorce, which convinces her family that she’s doomed.
When she finally finds her true love at a party, she’s more determined than ever to attain her love story and earn a spot in her family. But after completely botching their first meeting, she realizes that she’ll need help from her best friend Leo, who is sort of a love expert. The catch—he and Piper haven’t talked in six months, since he needed a “break” from their friendship.
To win over the love of her life and a place in her family, Piper must convince Leo to teach her his ways. And it’s all going as planned…until Leo confesses his own love for Piper. Now, she must decide which fate to follow.
I thought this was a cute read. Did it hold anything unexpected? Nope. But it was still a cute read. I liked Piper and her friends a lot—and her parents, for that matter. Her aunts kind of made me want to smack them several times, and their incessant meddling and “predictions” were annoying. I kind of wished the epilogue had been ten years in the future so I could see how everything played out, but this was a quick, fun read.
Gretchen Schreiber lives in Los Angeles. All the Stars Align is her debut novel.
(Galley courtesy of St. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest review.)
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