03 March

📚ARC REVIEW 📚KISS AND BREAK UP BY ELLA FIELDS

Dashiell Thane wasn’t a nice guy.
He was an abrasive, demanding, conniving, intolerable brat.
Yet somehow, we’d been best friends our whole lives.
Until our senior year when I finally decided to dip my toes into the dating pool.

All it took was one kiss for jealousy, lies, and betrayal to sweep in and propel us heart first into dizzying, hostile depths.

You’re not supposed to kiss your best friend.
You’re definitely not supposed to kiss your best friend while you’re dating someone else.
And the absolute worst thing you could do is fall for your best friend.
Unless, of course, you want to ruin everything.

KISS AND BREAK UP:

is a full length new adult novel by Ella Fields. In this we meet Peggy and Dashiell Thane aka Dash. Spoken in ‘Dual Perspectives.’

I’m not gonna lie as soon as I started it those giddy butterfly feelings took over my stomach, I love stories like this, childhood friendships that turn into so much more are my weakness.

And in true Ella fashion she did this genre justice, get ready for your world to implode!! This review is going to be as spoiler free as I can make it.

Their friendship goes way back before time, their mothers were best friends, then they raised their two kids solidifying their friendship even more. But that changed when Peggy was ten years old when her mother walked away from her father taking Peggy with her, and they left their old life behind. Their life then went from rags to riches in the blink of an eye. From mansions to three bedroom cottages and ball gowns to Chucks and worn denim. Two mother’s friendship severed forever. But that’s not the case for Peggy and Dash. Their friendship stayed strong.

Peggy never wanted to be friends with Dash but he had other ideas and in Preschool he made it clear that she would be his friend and that was the end of that. His idea back then of cementing it was by tipping cold water over her head and declaring that they were now friends even though she tried fruitlessly telling him that they weren’t. But over the years it was a losing battle, he kind of grew on her, and was hard to shake. In other words he was kind of like a brother she never wanted.

Dashiell Thane had been my best friend for as long as I could remember. He wouldn't have been my first choice, but then again, since he learned how to talk and use his words and that scowl as a weapon, I never really had a choice.

Now summer is nearly over and it’s back to Manila Cove Prep, near eighteen year old Peggy thought by now she would’ve experienced life a bit more, she feels like she’s missed out on so much. And that’s all because of Dash.

I'd never been kissed by anyone other than Dash, and even then, he'd only done it in the sixth grade so he could claim my first kiss.

But things are going to go all topsy turvy!! It all started with a kiss!! A kiss between friends!!

The ‘Queen of Angst’ 🙌 brought us a whole new crowd!! And she nailed it!! This one is a must read!! Dash is what makes all us readers crazy over book boyfriends!! All the feels, all the angst, High school drama at its best!! And the hot boys we love to claim!! This book had it all.

The hero and heroine were perfectly imperfect together, the secondary characters just added that extra epic factor. Easy to get into, hard to put down, inhaled it, breathed it, loved it. Childhood friends to more are my kryptonite, my go to weakness and Dash just cemented it.

Ella Fields is a mother and wife who lives in the land Down Under. While her kids are in school, you might find her talking about her characters to her cat, Bert, and dog, Grub.
She's a notorious chocolate and notebook hoarder who enjoys creating hard-won happily ever afters.