10 Blind Dates by Ashely Elston- Reshelved Books

To quote The Bubble Guppies "What time is it?" It's time for a new review!

For some reason that is a little lost on me, holiday themed books come out in October... The library has been getting these holiday books this month and when I went to Barnes and Noble a few weeks ago, I was seeing them as new releases. 

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10 Blind Dates is a fun and quirky YA book that is centered around the holidays!  The title wouldn't make you think about that but the cover art definitely does (once you notice the little ball of mistletoe).   This book also came out this month.  

Elston definitely was channeling quirkiness when she wrote this book.  Sophie is 17 years old, she's a high school senior, she's able to become an aunt!  She also is about to spend the next 2 weeks of her holiday break with her family three hours away.   Keep in mind, that this is family that Sophie feels she's grown away from in recent years.  As a result, Sophie decided that she wasn't going to stay with her family for as long.  She decided that she was going to stay home and then this way, she would be ale to spend time with Griffin, her boyfriend.

The night that her parents leave, is the night that Sophie decided she's going to tell Griffin the good news.  Sophie goes to a party to see and talk to Griffin when she overhears that Griffin doesn't find her to be fun anymore and that maybe, they should go on a break. 

WELL. 

Sophie gets upset and leaves the party.  Totally understandable! 

Now, this is where the quirkiness comes in.  After arriving at her grandparents house and telling Nonna what had happened and then sleeping on it for a night, Sophie wakes up to a surprise.  Nonna is going to set Sophie up on 2 weeks worth of dates!  Which would be a date every day that Sophie was there.  Different family members would set Sophie up a different dates with different boys. 

Think of it as speed dating. 

The idea is that all of these dates are going to help Sophie get over Griffin.

Will they work? Well.  You're just going to have to see for yourself! 

I'm going to give this book 4 coffee beans out of 5. 

~ Jillian