Waiting on Wednesday: You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith

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You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith. 336 p. Inkyard Press/ Harlequin Trade Publishing, November 2, 2021. 9781335405685.

Happy Wednesday! Yesterday was picture day and it sure was nice to see a lot of students dressed to impress! Waiting on Wednesday features You Can Go Your Own Way by Eric Smith. I learned about this contemporary YA romance from the blog, Latinosinkidlit. Here's the publisher synopsis: No one ever said love would be easy…but did they mention it would be freezing?

Adam Stillwater is in over his head. At least, that’s what his best friend would say. And his mom. And the guy who runs the hardware store down the street. But this pinball arcade is the only piece of his dad that Adam has left, and he’s determined to protect it from Philadelphia’s newest tech mogul, who wants to turn it into another one of his cold, lifeless gaming cafés.

Whitney Mitchell doesn’t know how she got here. Her parents split up. Her boyfriend dumped her. Her friends seem to have changed overnight. And now she’s spending her senior year running social media for her dad’s chain of super successful gaming cafés—which mostly consists of trading insults with that decrepit old pinball arcade across town.

But when a huge snowstorm hits, Adam and Whitney suddenly find themselves trapped inside the arcade. Cut off from their families, their worlds, and their responsibilities, the tension between them seems to melt away, leaving something else in its place. But what happens when the storm stops?

You Can Go Your Own Way releases on November 2.