Take Me Home Tonight - by Morgan Matson (Hardcover)

overall: love love loved this! loved all the different points of view, the chapters split up by time, brad, the insane plot with teri and co, BRAD, the theatre community, stevie’s growth, cary dressed like a fighter pilot, all of the insane coincidences. man. this was a truly stellar read!!!! without a doubt 5 beautiful, bright-as-new-york-at-night stars! my thoughts while reading:* - 7: I love how all of morgan's books overlap.... just saw a shoutout to gelsey from second chance summer! (and a beckett ref on 24 from since you've been gone! 31: an amy ref!) also what is a sitzprobe - 10: cute friend nicknames!! - 24: prediction of how many times bug juice will be mentioned in this book: 4 - 35: starbucks putting their names as cat and steve. classic starbucks move. side note, it took 3 uses of “bux” before I realized that meant starbucks. guess I’m not hip anymore - 44: classic dad move/opinion there. also GRADY, love this kid already. he “prefers plain almonds” lmaooo - 56: things are going well so far... I give it 14 pages before everything falls apart (64: “What’s the worst thing that could happen?” is usually the wrong way to start off a plan) - 57: the fbi raided the office??? I have questions - 70: 14 pages after my prediction and things are still going alright.... - 102: there’s a guy IN THE TRUNK WHAT - 103: brad is perfect omg. also realizing that the book’s cover is absolutely perfect for the story - 105: ah, is this going to be kat’s love interest? hmmm - 110: smh. must be nice to not have to worry about how to pay for college - 134: it’s happening. things are falling apart. don’t they know you’re supposed to never split up?!?! BABY SHARK DO DO DA DO DO DA DO - 136: “how do you eat a whale, pumpkin?” - 144: I’m so stressed - 157: why is everybody getting held up at gunpoint or knifepoint?!!? - 178: I want to hear archie’s a cappella group - 190: I’m sorry, what? he’s a cia spy agent who’s been operating undercover as...... part of the.... bulgarian mob? there’s no way this is real. this book is a roller coaster - 217: they missed each other AGAIN. NO - 235: I was wondering when beckett would come up again. love that guy - 266: no, kat, you don’t have to do it. go find your friend - 282: this is a jewel heist now???? - 300: FINALLY we get to know what happened at the boxcar cantina! - 315: you TELL EM STEVIE - 331: are amy and roger not together??? I’m crying - 340: FULL BODY CHILLS. SHE FOUND THE PAINTING. NO WAY. NO POSSIBLE WAY IT WAS THERE ALL ALONG - 363: teri has got to be tripping. there is no possible way this is real. I mean the royal canadian mounted police? really? please - 370: I swear if cary works at this party I’ll lose my mind - 371: the sixth job! of course - 375: did she just..... get recruited..... by the cia? - 404: OKAY YEAH, TAKE ME HOME TONIGHT WAS SO GOOD *these page numbers are based on the advance reader's copy!